John Stoltenberg, Andrea Dworkin's platonic life partner, wrote prolly the most radical 2ndwave text on "ending men" https://www.amazon.com/end-Manhood-John-Stoltenberg/dp/0452273048 …
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However, if you read it, you will note that ending "men" as a societal role or category is not the same as killing half of all humans
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I don't actually embrace his thesis even though I think he makes strong points. I think modern Discourse kind of buries this debate though
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We just automatically default to the term "toxic masculinity" without defining what "nontoxic" masculinity is really
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Or how you embark on the project of creating such a thing when "toxic masculinity" is exactly congruent w most historical masculinity
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I think that trans ppl's existence poses a clear challenge to the totalizing discourse of 2nd wave radical feminism
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Which is why ppl fall into the overt bigotry of TERFism, and calling trans men "gender traitors", and other vile nonsense born of the era
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I do think gender itself is more than just a system of oppression and that a world without oppression would have the category "men" in it
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But if you instantly jump from "end men" to "that means literally murdering every human labeled 'men'" thats really hardcore essentialism
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And then if you leap from there to "that means the jobs done by men wouldn't be done by anyone anymore bc those are men's jobs" then wtf
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Why that would almost mean you were a straight-up right wing traditionalist-Catholic reactionary, possibly, maybe
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