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Dear MRAs, please try to lift the entire debate to a 20th century understanding, you are making me look bad. To give a short primer, Patriarchy: A social stru
by yk 10y ago
Dear MRAs, please try to lift the entire debate to a 20th century understanding, you are making me look bad.
To give a short primer,
Patriarchy: A social structure, which in modern discourse is largely influenced by work of Zetkin and Luxenburg around the WWI and leans on an analogy to Marxist classes. As such, it is notably not a conspiracy theory. The claim that there is no conspiracy is as uncontroversial as it is a straw man.
Gender: Social roles usually assumed to be correlated with biological sex. Note, if you want to claim gender does not exist, then you have to explain why Black Widow does wear high heels in the latest Marvel movie, while Iron Man does not. (Notably in the article the author confuses gender and sex, they are not synonym. One is about biology, one is about society.)
Toxic masculinity: To give an example, more men die in battle because the role of a warrior is clearly gendered as male. (That is, it is more acceptable for a man to become a soldier than for a women.) So there are aspects of expectations of man that are not helping. Another example is, more men die in car accidents because a man is expected to drive more aggressively than a woman. I have yet to see an interesting argument about toxic masculinity, that was not more eloquently argued by feminists in the 70ies. So stop whining about an unfortunate word choice. (See what I did there?)