Freud's Oedipus Complex is about how masculinity is always split.
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men are supposed to be the ruling patriarch, *and* the daring rebel who overthrows and murders the patriarch.
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you see this in Masoch, Venus in Furs. Masoch presents a alternative masculinity, which thrives on abuse/submission. A kind of beta male.
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But it's a precursor to a flip at the end, where he becomes "the hammer", (I think that's the quote.)
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Beta males sticking it to patriarchs via hating women better or more inventively is not a new thing.
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She makes good points about how women are often associated with conformism and how the counterculture folded that into misogyny...
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but then she performs that misogyny herself! damn; that's the big surprise finish tot he essay I guess.
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Here; sneering at Internet feminists who are interested in sewing and aren't enthusiastic about Sanders...pic.twitter.com/ooF4Ql8RKU
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what is that but the left misogyny she decries, which associates women and feminism with conformity and insufficient radicalism?
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and the idea that Milo's brand of alt right awfulness is fine with gender fluidity...what? has she seen how they treat trans ppl?
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there are a lot of decent insights in that piece, but lumping bisexual ppl who worry about their treatment in w/ alt right fascists...
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So, there are useful takeaways from this piece. The point that "rebel" subcultures are often really misogynist...
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