GeniesLoki

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.

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.

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

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)

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..

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

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

Tho rereading what u said, @GeniesLoki, and if you think feminists would act in good faith, i definitely agree that sort of revising fem discourse to make room for the experiences of men would work, too