#oh and if you are a pipeline escapee and you are blaming feminists you might still be in it

[oscaronthegloryroad]

As a white guy who absolutely was on the alt-right pipeline; Women have no responsibility for the existence of that.

The pipeline starts at being raised with media created by MEN who depict women as lesser, as prizes to be won for being "the manliest". It is the hard baked "men don't feel feelings like women" encoded into everything we consume, the normalization of bullying other boys for crying. The pipeline is reinforced by other boys trying to live up to the horrible role models propped up before us and competing to be the biggest and toughest by metrics that devalue creativity, empathy, and emotional intelligence.

The pipeline seems inescapable because you don't really know you're in it until you aren't, and even then it requires the self awareness to look around you and see what's going on. And that is on the individual.

I don't know how to dismantle it. To be honest, I am not entirely sure how I escaped. But I know who built it and maintains it, and I know that one of the mechanisms by which it is reinforced is the blaming of women. If feminists are blamed for the pipeline then that eases the way by ramping over one of the largest impediments to its continuation.