four shelves for "goddess / feminine spirituality" any guesses how many there are for "god / masculine spirituality" lol
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Umm. That’s every traditional religious book and the entirety of most organized religious institutions and theology schools/seminaries. It’s hardly underrepresented.
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I think you’re talking past each other here
Goddess/feminine spirituality is a sort of self-starter SMB spirituality thing, which is in defiance of orthodoxy
I think QC is trying to talk about the “missing market” of the male equivalent heterodoxy
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In practice, dudes do have their small/localised forms of communion, ritual, meaning - podcasts, video games, sports, alcohol, suits, beards, etc. List goes on. Sometimes dudes will do this sort of thing in a half-ironic way:
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What QC is asking for is a very improbable niche-within-niche thing where the “unit economics” don’t work. Like 1% of straight guys might be interested in “Masculine Spirituality”, and the framing is so contaminated that barely anybody worth talking to is going to touch it
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The thing is, the original (feminine spirituality/goddess stuff) exists largely as an essentialized reaction to very essentialized masculine traditions, so it is a little odd to look for X in a reaction to X.
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Perhaps if you assume X1 and X2 are the same thing.
I'm past the point of needing it now, but younger me was starving for some X1 action. X2 is a moral desert.
But we don't have any good X1, just perpetual complaint that X2 is already ours and "to our benefit".
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I suspect -- as social mores around "men's work" disintegrate even further -- someone will start a genre to fill the void.
No fucking clue what it'll look like, and I'm bad enough at "male" that I have no confidence I could figure it out.(But whoever does is gonna make bank.)
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It’s the cost of legibilized division of societal labor and resulting induced essentialized roles. Eg even the original men hunt/women gather probably didn’t work for women who had hunting talents and men who had gathering talents. The margins always get messy when you legibilize
The margins get extra messy when competing legibilities collide. I just read a bunch of ancient Israeli and early Christan history, and that's basically the whole story.
(Leonard Cohen would hate the work of sacrificing in the temple, and look longingly at the singing Levites.)
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