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Why is operating outside of the paradigm of liberal feminism automatically equivalent to vilifying women? There seems to be an insatiable need for liberalism to

Why is operating outside of the paradigm of liberal feminism automatically equivalent to vilifying women? There seems to be an insatiable need for liberalism to 'other' those outside of it: critical of feminism? Misogynist. Critical of CRT? Racist. No need for discussion, no need to examine the internal contradictions of the worldview. It's not unfounded, but MRAs are purely reactionary; they're the mirror twin of their enemies. They replace the "patriarchy" with the "gynocracy" and call it a day. I prefer authentic harmony between femininity and masculinity, but neither of these movements serves this purpose at all (some will object that they do, but both view their opposite as inherently poisonous--within feminism men can only be "good" by "betraying masculinity", and vice versa).

tablespoon 5y ago
> Why is operating outside of the paradigm of liberal feminism automatically equivalent to vilifying women? There seems to be an insatiable need for liberalism to 'other' those outside of it... Because if your goal is to advance liberal feminism, you can help achieve that by "discouraging" opposition to it, leaving your slide to dominate the conversation. That discouragement often takes the form of various ways of increasing the personal cost for an individual to express an opposing opinion (e.g. through boycotts, vilification, harassment, marginalization, etc). As a tactic, it works, at least in the short to medium term (and it feels good, too). This article is pretty interesting and related: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/opinion/gay-marriage-boycotts.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/opinion/gay-marriage-boyc.... tl;dr: Gay marriage activists succeeded in part by personally targeting wealthy gay marriage opponents, causing them to avoid making donations to opponent organizations, leading to funding disparities that helped the advocates prevail.

tablespoon 5y ago

> Why is operating outside of the paradigm of liberal feminism automatically equivalent to vilifying women? There seems to be an insatiable need for liberalism to 'other' those outside of it... Because if your goal is to advance liberal feminism, you can help achieve that by "discouraging" opposition to it, leaving your slide to dominate the conversation. That discouragement often takes the form of various ways of increasing the personal cost for an individual to express an opposing opinion (e.g. through boycotts, vilification, harassment, marginalization, etc). As a tactic, it works, at least in the short to medium term (and it feels good, too). This article is pretty interesting and related: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/opinion/gay-marriage-boycotts.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/opinion/gay-marriage-boyc.... tl;dr: Gay marriage activists succeeded in part by personally targeting wealthy gay marriage opponents, causing them to avoid making donations to opponent organizations, leading to funding disparities that helped the advocates prevail.