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> men doing this to themselves So the patriarchy is anti-male?
by antiquark 3y ago
> men doing this to themselves
So the patriarchy is anti-male?
- foogazi 3y agoAlways has been according to JP
- orwin 3y agoYes, that what's Beauvoir argued for. And if you prefer American and a bit older, that what Emma Goldman basically said, that the power structure of capitalist America (and later the Marxist leninist Russia once she saw what the butcher of Kronstad did) was hierarchical and that to avoid having the bottom revolt against them, the top direct the anger to citizen lower than them. I personally don't think it's on purpose, I think most people lack courage and prefer punching down rather than punching up. Yes the civil rights movement was impeded by politician and some violent white nationalists, but the overt political support was from middle to high class female, and you don't have to read a ton of anarchist / Marxist books to understand why.
- foogazi 3y ago> I think most people lack courage and prefer punching down rather than punching up. I think it’s loss aversion and belonging to the in-group Men control power and also control what little power other men have