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grison-in-space · 9 months ago

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What gets me is that this is exactly like MRAs complaining that it's hard to date women. You're subscribing to an essentially fascist, binaristic view of gender politics that posits that men and women are engaged in an eternal struggle for power in a world where their interests are inherently opposed. Plus you're throwing on top the belief that gender is immutably tied to sex, meaning that there is no way except one party's absolute subservience for people of different sexes to reconcile their interests to one another. And then you wonder why this is not attractive to people from other genders even if you ARE focused on rooting out people that you believe are "traitors" from your own "side" rather than achieving dominance over theirs at the moment.

Come to think of it, there are a lot of parallels between MGTOWs and the political lesbians of the 70s and 80s, too.

Many TERFs are so insulated within their cult that they don't realize most people don't agree with their unhinged ideology.

#Still reading Men Who Hate Women #Had to pause briefly when listening to the audio book version gave me a panic attack about my career #re all the relational shit in academia plus the potential blowback for being bluntly unimpressed about things like #The time I threw down in seminar because a student was proposing a project examining the heritability of the “predisposition to save money”#and could not explain to me how heritability is calculated #which was BTW a lead up to pointing out that heritability investigations are always #Without exception #Specific to a given population and its environment and do not generalize #Except I had intended to lead into that point by making him recite how one calculates heritability #And he didn't fucking know #Anyway I got into trouble for causing a non collegial environment #Dude got outed as an actual nazi a year later #Anyway. Still reading and chewing over. Not much new to me in the book but the synthesis is solid #and it's lighting up all sorts of interesting parallels in my head for radfems #radical feminism #Radfems #Thinking about how a zero sum view of gender conflict leads us inescapably to interpersonal conflicts and to greater isolation #Anyway thank fuck for intersectionality and Crenshaw #That's all I'm saying

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