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and more to do with power structures

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.