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Queen mother dynamic

  • The primary mode of relation is deference (as opposed to collaboration)
  • Man takes care of woman, woman takes care of home (which includes man)
  • In devotion, freedom is found, the complexity of the world is reduced to keeping QM content
  • It is easy to have a god figure because there are scripts for worship
  • Lack of agency can be feigned because of the ’limitations’ imposed by the ‘old ball and chain’
  • Men can excuse themselves for a life not fully lived