stray thought the realest kind of Girl Power, exclusive to that gender and manifest through history, is the soft power of femininity over the sentiments of men the realest kind of Guy Power, exclusive to that gender, is the power of male friendship
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Replying to @eigenrobot
This is very male-centric. I don't for a second buy that female friendships can't be as powerful; I don't think of friendship as gendered. ∃ imbalance of power among heteros age 16–27, but that reverses after ~35. But when 70-year-old women are "incel" they don't kill people.
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Replying to @MichaelOChurch @eigenrobot
The main problem is: men are conditioned to think that virginity is something to be ashamed of, rather than transient / normal for young. The stud/whore garbage society constructed creates the imbalance of power. When we on the left complain about toxic masculinity, we're not
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Replying to @MichaelOChurch @eigenrobot
saying that all men are toxic. That ain't remotely true. We're saying that masculinity, as constructed in our society's mainstream, has become toxic. And it has. (So has femininity, but that's another argument.)
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Replying to @MichaelOChurch @eigenrobot
what does virginity or incels have to do with platonic intragender fidelity
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Replying to @strnglft @eigenrobot
Nothing. That was in reference to his other point about women having a soft power advantage over men... which is true from about 16–25.
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