rhetoric of the body

to talk about the use of 'sexy' pictures on myspace i've been reading about rhetoric of the body, and the power patriarchy takes to write lack of power onto women's bodies. it's pretty interesting that we are taught and teach cultural norms to reinscribe this power without even realizing it. telling a little girl it's ok to cry is reinscribing that power, or lack of power. it's teaching her to use her emotions and be ok with her emotions, which in patriarchy is the opposite of rational thought. since she is comfortable with emotions, she must lack rational thought (according to patriarchy) and she's put into a lower position in society, again. just because of a few tears