god damn, and i thought i had a jaundiced view of masculinity. you uh in fact like that piece?
i've kinda come to see masculinity and patriarchy as not synonymous but as thesis and antithesis
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and my predisposition is to view the latter as containing zero salvage
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but my impression is you could invent something out of whole cloth and Mix there would hate it if you called it a masculinity
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which i suppose means my impression is that there's some sloppy category-based reasoning going on here
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this is also true. i think sometimes taking something to an extreme is interesting, just to see what happens..
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i certainly always salute our brave explorers of the ever-expanding outer reaches of the epistemic envelope
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i'm interested in this idea - it feels like there's some truth in saying masculinity as a concept is inextricably bound to power
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yeeeeah... i'd say historically, not inextricably. we can extricate all kindsa shit. but at minimum there's a ton of baggage
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maybe. but aren't you then still defining it in opposition to that historical context?
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yeah, but is that inextricability? because ferxample then feminism is inextricably bound to racism and that'd be unfortunate
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it's possible. IMO feminism theoretically only needs to exist in a larger context of oppression.
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*nod* correspondingly i'd say masculinity and femininity need only provide a social framework for sex-correlated tendencies.
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(with the proviso here that sex is at least a 16-dimensional phase space not a goddamn bitflag.)
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