Looool normies are just structurally hermeneutically priviliged. Nice
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There's a lot of hostility to male feminists from both sides, "feminism for men" plays right into a lot of stereotypes about men's behaviour ("for men" is literally a running joke in feminist circles), and honestly it does sound like men coming into feminism and making it theirs.
I also think describing "patriarchy hurts men too" as a core tenet of feminism is very charitable. "Patriarchy hurts men too" is largely a thing people say when they want to gotcha men and don't want to examine the way *their* behaviour hurts men, and is rarely well integrated.
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(It absolutely *is* true that patriarchy hurts men too, but phrasing it that way is often used to get women off the hook for their participation in enforcing those aspects of patriarchy)
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All this being said I guess functionally "feminism for men" actually is what I'm doing, because I'd really rather not found a movement so largely what I end up doing instead is just taking the general tools of analysis I've learned from feminism and applying them to men's issues.
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Patriarchy gets motte-and-bailey'd a lot. I think it's actually true that the formal notion of patriarchy does hurt a majority of men (cf. Reich, on the family as economic institution causing discontent), but it gets invoked as if every man is implicated in some conspiracy.
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Yes, I agree with this entirely.
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