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dumb-butch-syndrome · 4 months ago

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I feel like you're ignoring my point? I'm not arguing that misogyny doesn't come from men - of course it does. I'm also not arguing that it's not a global phenomenon - of course it is. I'm saying the fact that there are counterexamples in pre-colonial societies is pretty strong evidence that aggression and dominance isn't biologically inherent to men. Which - and correct me if I'm wrong - was what you were implying in your original posts?

If the argument is just "patriarchy, when it arises, is primarily created and upheld by men" then I actually agree with you, but if it's "men are biologically predisposed to creating systems of oppression" then I disagree

idk how any woman can come out of an anthropology degree without having grown a new third eye about male nature

#LONG POST #chats #Also as a sidenote the focus on own voices ethnographies / insider anthropology is yeah super cool but also necessarily postcolonial #also it sucks that you've met some shitty trans women but if we're getting anecdotal I've met cis women who were #domineering and inappropriate too #and trans women who were meek and accommodating to a fault. so.#I'm not educated enough to speak on trans people being socialised as any specific gender bc like. I'm not trans. but I'd imagine that #e.g. the trans experience of being 'socialised masc' is very different from the cis experience of being socialised masc #based on what friends have told me #discourse cw #transphobia cw #I think? better safe than sorry #also I fully didn't mean to be condescending but like it's fs possible to get through a social sciences degree without grappling with any #problems inherent to the discipline #just like it's possible to get a business degree without acknowledging the evils of capitalism #people who have devoted their lives to a field often take the existence of that field as a given #and limit their deconstruction of if - if any - to what won't get their funding cut #not saying that's you! but you can take it personally if you'd like I'm not a cop #you kinda see the same in stem subjects like engineering - lots of people will consider ethics up to & not beyond the point #where they'd have to admit the world might be better without the thing they're making #not saying that's you either! that's more a separate issue I've run into #also. bit of a pot/kettle situation calling me condescending lmao #anyway if it turns out you just meant patriarchy is upheld by men then I've written a whole bunch out for nothing so that's fun

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