Mostly I think the manosphere defines itself as in opposition to feminism rather than in cooperation with it, lacks a psychologically healthy foundation, and contains a lot of toxic subcultures (such as PUA) that poison the whole pool.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @pieratt and
Like I think a better starting point would basically be "Cool, feminism has done a lot of great work for analysing the societal consequences of gender norms, but it's written mostly by women so lacks an understanding of men's lived experience, can we fix that?"
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @pieratt and
It's going to be impossible to build the cooperation that a masculinism would want as long as feminists refuse to grapple with this. Mainstream iterations of feminism see men as emotionless (ergo, experienceless) creatures, therefore there is no lived experience to study.
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Replying to @MusingsOfYouth @pieratt and
I think you're making the mistake of conflating a movement with its worst members though. I've rarely had trouble talking about this with individual feminists one on one - there's definitely a large core of feminists who are perfectly open to this.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @MusingsOfYouth and
and I mean granted that's a "rarely" that is heavily selected for only talking to reasonable people, but there's more than enough such people to have productive discussions.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @MusingsOfYouth and
Also, build it and they will come. Feminism is allowed to be the only game in town, and everything else tries to situate itself in relation to its body of research. That shouldn’t be the case
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Replying to @expertocrat @GeniesLoki and
Build something totally new, but try to avoid the positivistic sciences feminism is built on. Those are its weak points (really what all that’s annoying about it follows from)
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Replying to @expertocrat @MusingsOfYouth and
I'm not sure it makes sense to build something entirely new without reference to feminism - it both ignores a lot of good work and also leaves you open to easy criticism of not having engaged with prior art..
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @MusingsOfYouth and
I guess i mean it in the same terms as artists obsessing over “whether or not my art is contemporary.” It IS contemporary by dint of its being made today, even if you’re doing realist history painting
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Replying to @expertocrat @GeniesLoki and
Imagining an academic discipline, i’m just saying it could be stultifying to try to “respond” to feminism/feminist discourse/research. Pursue your subject in an independent vein and the intersections will happen of themselves
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I was imagining building on rather than responding too - pursue the questions that seem important, but in doing so draw on the relevant existing body of theory.
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