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Men will literally build political machines that eat them before going to therapy.
Looking at all the tradwives and conservative women makes it clear this is not a gender-thing.
I'm just riffing on the joke format. I actually don't know how common this sort of fetish repression complex is in women. It certainly seems to happen less but it's hard to know if it does or if it's just conservative movements largely excluding women.
Sorry, I think I'm a bit defensive because I've just talked to some Natoid lib who was heavyyy into the whole "divine feminine"/"if women were in power there would be no war" thing.
I curious wether it's less common among women, or it's more just a case of it not being able to be as common among women due to material conditions.
Women when they're in power
I dunno, I think maybe there's an underlying problem in the system, and patriarchy is one of its many, oldest faces
Fair fair. Tbh gender war stuff is a bit cringe. I spend a lot of time angry at (nebulous) men because of patriarchy and the cruelty women are consistently shown but it's less to do with hormones (although having experienced both HOLY SHIT TESTOSTERONE MAKES YOU ANGRY) and more to do with power structures.
A matriarchy may not be bad in the same ways (pervy sex stuff,removed, murder) but human brains don't survive contact with power.
Yes, power structures for the control of women. The problem with radical feminism isn't the man hating, that's cool, good and justified, the problem lies in essentializing the problem and tying it to "masculine energy", "male socialization", biodeterminism or some other terfy nonsense instead of the material reality of patriarchy as a control and extraction mechanism.
But that system only exists because all men benefit to it from some degree. OFC, it does also offer women and nonbinary people the opportunity to wield its control mechanisms against other non-men, which is why i call it a power structure for the control of women and not a power structure for the rule of men. Every oppressive system incentivizes its victims to aspire to Kapo status. And ofc it also harms men, after all it needs wounded, repressed, secretly insecure and constantly unsatisfied men as its main agents of violence and only the tiniest percentage of them can actually come out on top while the rest is doomed to the bucket crab life.
And still, patriarchy keeps persisting because men, the labor aristocrats of gender, do not dare to challenge it. This is why i do not buy the "not all men" chaff and flare, men who aren't part of the problem will not run interference by going into deflection mode when women need to vent or call something out. Good men care about justice, not about collective exculpation at the expense of victims.