Divorce in a Patriarchal Culture - with Kristy Carter
Breaking Down Patriarchy
Amy McPhie Allebest
4.9 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Amy is joined by friend Kristy Carter to discuss how the institution of divorce always has and continues to fail women, placing divorcees and their children at risk. Kristy bravely shares her personal story of re-starting life in a society which continues to treat women like children.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McZee, Allabest. On our very first season of the podcast, we covered an essential text in women's literature called A Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen by Olomte de Guiche. It was written in 1791. I'm going to read a quote from that 230-year-old document, and I want you to think about whether this situation is still relevant today. |
| 0:26.1 | This passage is about a woman who gets married and then at some point her husband leaves her. |
| 0:31.0 | It says, quote, the older she has grown with him, the more inhuman his infidelity. |
| 0:37.0 | If she has children, he will abandon her just the |
| 0:40.1 | same. If he is rich, he will consider himself excused from sharing his fortune with his noble victims. |
| 0:47.1 | If he is obliged to do his duty, he will disregard this obligation, counting on every support from the law. |
| 0:55.1 | End quote. |
| 0:56.1 | My guess is that every single person listening or watching this today can relate to this |
| 1:01.3 | quote, either as a person who this has happened to or you know someone who this has happened |
| 1:06.2 | to. |
| 1:07.0 | And so the subject of today's podcast is to identify the patriarchal structures that make it so that when a heterosexual couple divorces, the experience is very different for the man than it is for the woman. |
| 1:20.8 | And to talk about that topic today, I have here my dear friend, Christy Carter. |
| 1:26.0 | Welcome to the podcast, Christy. |
| 1:27.4 | Thank you. I feel like this has |
| 1:29.3 | been a long time coming. I'm so excited that our schedule's finally aligned. Yeah. So thank. |
| 1:36.1 | I'm so excited to have you here. Christy and I have been friends since 2002. And I was just remembering, |
| 1:42.7 | I remember the very first time I saw you actually. |
| 1:45.7 | I don't know if you remember, but you, I think you were sitting in the foyer of the church. |
| 1:50.1 | And my husband and I walked in and you were sitting like in a chair and I just have a very clear snapshot of just seeing you. |
| 1:57.7 | And I think it's because I knew we were going to be friends. |
| 1:59.5 | Like I just decided like, oh, yeah, hi, I'm your new friends. I had left the point of the quarter. That's that's totally a true. |
| 2:07.4 | I just knew we were meant to be friends the second we saw each other. Yeah. Well, that's a human |
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