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I'm not the person you asked the question of, but I'll dip my oar in anyway. Of the self-identified feminists I've come across, both online and in real-life, th
by camelite 13y ago
I'm not the person you asked the question of, but I'll dip my oar in anyway. Of the self-identified feminists I've come across, both online and in real-life, the vast majority of them subscribe to patriarchy theory. A standard response to the common debating technique of switching the gender in a hypothetical scenario and presenting it as as challenge to their world view is to say, "Well that may be so, but the difference is that prejudice against women is systematic, because patriarchy." So in this world-view men, as a class, cannot be victims, only victimisers; they cannot be oppressed, only opressors; and so on. And patriarcy theory permeates feminism. So in this sense, all of feminism, and most if not all feminists, to one degree or another, are male-exclusionary. I don't personally believe that this element can be exorcised. I believe it is axiomatic, that it and that it trickles down through the ranks even to those who consider themselves merely sympathetic to feminism.