I think it's possible, it's just fucking hard work because it requires you to: 1. Adopt an ideology that integrates feminism into a proper understanding of the male experience. 2. Get good at working with your emotions and dealing with clashes between explicit belief and feeling
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @forshaper
You can't adopt an ideology that integrates (liberal) feminism into a proper uderstanding of the male experience if (liberal) feminism fundamentally misunderstands the male experience to begin with
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Replying to @PYeerk @forshaper
I think you can. It requires discarding some of the wrong bits, but integrating the experiences of men into a feminism largely just requires taking feminist principles of seriously and applying them uniformly. This isn't always popular, but I think it's good.
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Replying to @forshaper @PYeerk
e.g. "You should listen to people's lived experiences if you want to understand them", "You're probably oblivious to problems faced by people whose identities you don't share", "Identities interact in complex ways that create their own unique problems"
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @forshaper
This is all ideology. Men shouldn't hope to be 'finally understood' by women, or to have their 'lived experiences heard'- this is exactly the problem. If the search for masculine self-understanding takes feminism as its model, it's already based on the wrong premise
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Replying to @PYeerk @forshaper
I don't really feel like relitigating this argument, sorry
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @forshaper
Why not? I don't get exactly how you're going to get this 'masculinism' off the ground if you already have a designated set of arguments and view-points considered 'too offensive' to mention, even relatively mild one's like mine
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Replying to @PYeerk @forshaper
Because I'm bored of having it and the polite thing to do when someone asks to disengage from arguing with you is to do that?
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @forshaper
You're not going to get far if you just start sulking at the first sign of disagreement
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I'm not sulking, I'm tired and not very interested in your thoughts, and you're really validating that right now.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @forshaper
I'm not trying to mean but everything abt this exchange confirms my original point to you. You can't even tell me to fuck off, just passive-aggressive sniping trying to get me to 'respect that you're tired' or whatever. I'm calling you out bro, it's unbecoming
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