Socrates, Nietzsche, and Clay Aiken inspired my blog's title. Socrates was called a gadfly for aggravating people, making them question their faith in societal norms. Nietzsche claims we can't criticize something unless we can observe it from the outside. Clay Aiken longs to, in his song "Invisible,” "be a fly on your wall." I aim to discuss patriarchy as a gadfly on the periphery.
