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uncanny-tranny · 9 months ago

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The thing that sucks about misogyny is that it's not just a problem for one group of people or one gender group. If you want to combat bigotries, you (impersonal) have to not come at it from the angle of bigotry as an identity you have, but as a set of beliefs and actions. To be a misogynist isn't an identity like being gay or a similarly deep and personal identity. A misogynist is somebody who believes in and acts upon misogynistic ideas, myths, or any other such thing.

This goes for pretty much any bigotry, and the idea of bigotry as identity does us all a disservice, especially if you turn the bigotry into essentialism. When you essentialize bigotry in a certain group of people, you empower people to keep said bigotry unchecked and uninterrogated. That does everyone a disservice.

#feminism #politics #that's why i hate the 'its in mens very NATURE to be sexist' from rightists and leftists...#...if it is essential to being a certain 'type' of person then what would be the point of them going 'against' their nature?#like as a man it doesn't bother me to hear the essentialism above because it hurts my feelings...#...it bothers me because it ultimately won't work as a strategy to combat misogyny and sexism...#...like my feelings aren't hurt because i do try to combat misogyny - especially in my real life #and i recognize that misogyny affects me and it affects me in very weird ways for plenty of reasons

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