Pimp-prostitute relations mirror patriarchal expectations of wives and daughters.

Evidence

The role pimps expected women to play is merely an imitation of the role patriarchs expect their wives and daughters to play. The passive subordinate demeanor expected of the prostitute is not unlike that demanded of all women in patriarchal society. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 323

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies how pimp culture is not deviant but an imitation of patriarchal gender norms.
• XREF: connects to: Devaluation of black womanhood licensed exploitation and prostitution — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 195; The matriarchy myth built white-male and Black-male solidarity on shared sexism — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 231; Black slave gender roles replicated white patriarchal divisions of labor — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 144 (+2 more)

Related

• Most men in patriarchal society resent women who abandon passive roles (similarity 0.85)
• White men created the race-sex hierarchy that black men accept and support. (similarity 0.81)
• Male bonding is how patriarchy confers and preserves male power. (similarity 0.80)
• The desire to provide is not an innate male instinct (similarity 0.80)
• Black nationalist patriarchy would not improve black male-female relations (similarity 0.79)
• The matriarchy myth built white-male and Black-male solidarity on shared sexism (similarity 0.79)
• Devaluation of black womanhood licensed exploitation and prostitution (similarity 0.79)
• Black men asserted patriarchy to compensate for losing status to white men (similarity 0.79)
• The matriarchy myth discredited black women and black men simultaneously (similarity 0.79)
• Slavery-era myths branded black women masculinized to defend patriarchal ideology. (similarity 0.79)
• Slavery stripped black men of patriarchy but not of masculinity. (similarity 0.79)
• Black male leaders demanded subordination from their wives in private life. (similarity 0.78)
• Male freedom is incompatible with advocating the subjugation of women (similarity 0.78)
• Black male leaders granted women rights while keeping men superior authorities. (similarity 0.78)
• Black slave gender roles replicated white patriarchal divisions of labor (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Devaluation of black womanhood licensed exploitation and prostitution #expands (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 195
• Black slave gender roles replicated white patriarchal divisions of labor #corroborates (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 144
• Male bonding is how patriarchy confers and preserves male power. #expands (0.50) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 282
• The matriarchy myth built white-male and Black-male solidarity on shared sexism #complicates (0.40) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 231