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Does your political affiliation change the size of your penis in any way? Why is it relevant here, aside from enforcing the age-old body shaming ideals that "bi

• ltfey 5y ago
  To be technical, I never said anything about size. I said "inadequate". Also, one can be opposed to patriarchy while, at the same time, pointing out that the men who run capitalism fail on their own archaic and patriarchal terms. That these self-asserted "leaders" fail at being what they themselves want to be makes it all the more probable that they fail at being what we in society want or need them to be.
  • nikanj 5y ago
    Sorry I misunderstood you. What did you mean by ”inadequate”?
    • ltfey 5y ago
      It actually doesn't much matter. My point is that these people fail on their own terms. Fascism runs on a certain archaic masculine presence, and that is true whether we're talking about Mussolini's centralized variety, or the kind we see here where we live under the petty tyranny of a thousand employer-states. Toxic masculinity is at the core of old-style fascism and neofeudalist corporate capitalism alike. If you meet the men (and, yes, they're mostly men) in charge, though, they're all lethargic and unattractive creatures who never had to fight for anything. The system largely exists because they need to compensate for this fact--it exists both to elevate their appeal to women and to dimininsh that of male competitors. Pointing out that they fail on their own terms (old-style masculinity) is useful, because it discredits them and brings to mind questions about what they are really doing.
      • nikanj 5y ago
        It seems somewhat futile to say you were misunderstood, but then refuse to clarify.