Sekundas Poppet Drumpf was, in no uncertain terms, an extremist. A lot of
people were happy with their little misogynistic society, because they
didn’t know of a better way, but he was into it. He was super into it. He
hated women, and thought that they were only good for making babies. There
were many tasks that men didn’t want to have to do, like laundry, and
keeping the household clean, but Poppet wasn’t like that. Men did everything
better, and he was willing to do the dirty work if it meant a woman wasn’t
involved. If he had it his way, every woman would be locked in a little room
with the bare minimum: a bed, sink, shower, and toilet. They would gestate
the babies, birth them, and then go back to their bed to start the whole
process over again. There weren’t a whole lot of people on Durus who agreed
with him to this degree. Sure, women couldn’t be trusted, but they shouldn’t
be locked up, and not because that was inhumane, but because at the very
least, they were useful as slaves. Still, he was popular, because just like
President Summerfield’s lies, he was loud and unrelenting, and people
absolutely loved that in a leader. The only reason Summerfield allowed him
to run for the second-in-command position was because the insanity would
hopefully distract from Summerfield’s attempts at pushing the world towards
progress. When he was removed from office, his whole plan backfired, for
once Poppet found himself in the number one spot, there was no stopping him.
He decided to not take the position of President. Earth had a lot of
presidents, and they also had a lot of women in power. He didn’t want any
part of that, so he decided to keep his old title, even though it obviously
indicated he was meant to be second, and not first. He then proceeded to win
the election four years later, and became the only two-term primary leader
the Republic had ever seen. He wouldn’t stop there, but that is a story for
another day. Until then, he wanted to make some changes in Aljabara, whether
the people wanted him to or not.
The biggest changes he made were to the education system. He decided that
women weren’t the issue, but the way they were raised as girls. They weren’t
taught to be independent, but they weren’t taught to be submissive either.
He deemed this too problematic. He knew no one would go for his crazy locked
half-room idea, but education was the easiest avenue towards getting close
to his goals. People cared deeply about education, but they also easily
conceded to the fact that they didn’t know what the hell to do with it. If
someone in power told them schools should be run a certain way, well, then
they just sort of trusted that, as long as that person said other things
that they liked. So he knew he would be able to get away with preventing
girls from being educated the right way. He didn’t stop them from learning
at all, but he only let them learn the things he felt weren’t important, or
useful. Language was an acceptable subject, because it was irrelevant to
their everyday lives. Understanding grammar wasn’t going to help them rise
up, and demand equality. Maybe they could conduct impactful speeches, but
without any understanding of politics, their words would be empty, and
people would recognize that. Likewise, they could make all the art and music
they wanted, but it wasn’t going to make them any less inferior to men.
Education wasn’t the only thing that Drumpf went after in his first few
years, but it was the most significant. He did all these terrible things,
and he still got reëlected. He was unstoppable.
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