mostly i feel like he has a point and he blows right past it on his way to the land of original-sin-but-just-for-penis-havers
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Replying to @chaosprime
yeah. it did make me think, "what if there's nothing worth salvaging there? what would that mean?".
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Replying to @wirehead2501
yeah, it's a good question, and one i'm pretty interested in, if under somewhat different terms.
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Replying to @chaosprime @wirehead2501
i've kinda come to see masculinity and patriarchy as not synonymous but as thesis and antithesis
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Replying to @chaosprime
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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Replying to @wirehead2501
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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Replying to @chaosprime
maybe. but aren't you then still defining it in opposition to that historical context?
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Replying to @wirehead2501
yeah, but is that inextricability? because ferxample then feminism is inextricably bound to racism and that'd be unfortunate
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Replying to @chaosprime
it's possible. IMO feminism theoretically only needs to exist in a larger context of oppression.
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Replying to @wirehead2501
*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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