Patriarchy In Checkmate By Sukiya

Feminist has fought extraneously for females to be equal to men. In our society as a consequence of patriarchy we still suffer from the plight of men casting judgement on us women for our behaviour be it sexualized or not. Our dress code, our attitude, our bodies, our sexual behaviour are all heavily critiqued within society. Males are free to have sex with as many females as they see fit where as a female, in order to be respected is expected to preserve her innocence until marriage and only have sexual relations with that one man until death. This has been the rule and code by which female’ s sexuality has been measured for century’s and unfortunately despite the various strides toward change that has been made by various members of this …show more content…
Both protagonists experience a sense of power through a combination of sexual prowess and intellect. In “Checkmate” Sukiya uses her brilliance to disarm the various individuals she comes in contact with, she ingeniously orchestrates a scenario that foces her machinating boss to yield to her. She uses both her sexual identity and her technological knowledge to blackmail her boss into confessing the truth. As a consequence becuse she embraced her sexuality in a patriarchally dominated environment, and was able to play the role of submissive when in truth she was the dominant, she is able to obtain the desired result, she unravels the plot and saves herself from the fraud constructed by her noisome boss. “Come Randall...Come kneel before your mistress”(Baldeosingh, 75), she overthrows the power formula and is know the superpower as she typically is in the bed room, by recognizing the power she wields as both intellect and woman, she is able to rebel against the patriarchy and render herself victor in a male dominated …show more content…
Ramsol explicitly states repeatedly “rules is rules & laws is laws & u cannot remove NO documents from de premises a-tall a-tall” (Antoni, 194) in saying this she strives to separate business from pleasure essentially and informs Mr. Robot that although they have a sexual relationship, she is not going to break away from the professional procedure. However, as the story develops and toward the end we notice that negotiations begin and in an attempt to secure her personal vendetta she discards the rules that she had been so deligently maintaining for the most of the story. “well we only offerin u a lil suggestion of how you could do it , as much photo copies as u want to copy, as much of copies as u could ever WISH TO COPY...U could have dem BOTH, pussy & photocopies, as much as u could want, only ting is u got to do what is right &proper by de rules, u got to follow de rules.”(Antoni, 213) here the negotiations take place that demonstrates Ms. Ramsol’s full power, both the birthed power her “sweet pussy” and the power that she obtains as a an educated woman that is able to recognize the power that she is capable of having should she combine like Sikuya realize her education with her femininity. Both women are able to contest patriarchal power by craftily using what would be considered entirely wrong and using it to obtain a powerful status in their