#walt's feelings of emasculation and his relationship to violence/power are fairly par for the course in terms of analyzing patriarchy under | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

orangerosebush · 2 years ago

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Me when I see people espouse comedically inaccurate or shallow readings of a text that in all actuality just belie an even more profound trend regarding a refusal to seriously engage with a text's themes

#'haha Walter White is such a dumb man why would he let his pride allow him to turn down financial support so he could start a drug empire'#oh wow it's almost like the show is deeply invested in the American context of manhood and capitalism in ways that inform the tragedy #which is in and of itself still a simplification! but it's less of deferral of engagement #online media discussions are so bad #walt's feelings of emasculation and his relationship to violence/power are fairly par for the course in terms of analyzing patriarchy under #capitalism in the sense that 'the faustian bargain' poor men make is that they can go to work and be humiliated by their boss because #patriarchy at least gives them the seductive 'release valve' of being the Boss of the nuclear family #thus when you look at how patriarchal violence manifests in the USA -- rather than patriarchal violence in non-/pre-capitalist systems --#that is something that informs the shape that the neuroses and peculiarity of the collective psyche of The Oppressor tm that then informs #the kinds of violence (systemic or interpersonal) you see play out #similar to how impoverished whiteness still allows the opium of a sense of superiority to exist that then is adduced as to why those white #people should fight to uphold white supremacy and all its economic facets #again it's the core idea that one is groomed into playing a role to uphold a system of oppression by the way the system is so unquestionabl #unquestionably built into the fabric of your reality -- as opposed to any idea of inherent and inescapable ontological Badness

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