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  • the universalizing ideology of feminism for men is incoherent

    and if you react with anger to someone, me, stating this fact, that feminism is and ought to be for women, you’re part of the problem, shut up.

    feminism is full of lessons on how feminism helps women, men should read feminists

    but it’s stupid to expect feminism/feminists to advocate for men’s issues

    and it’s insulting to ask men to believe that all they have to do is be good feminists and they’ll get what they need.

    if you’re a man and you want to write about how actually all men need to do is understand patriarchy, seriously shut the fuck up.

    if you’re a woman and you want to write about how actually feminism is good for men, seriously shut the fuck up:

    stop centering a tool for helping women, feminism, stop centering women, when men is the topic. do you understand? can you understand? the topic is men.








  • In my left leaning circles it’s pretty well understood that feminism is about helping women. And that’s a good thing. Trying to make feminism an ideology which serves all genders is problematic because it implies an omniscient perspective counter to proper intersectionality. Men experience oppression but only men can represent their oppression in discourse.

    Women can’t and shouldn’t feel like they can have an opinion on men’s issues. “Stay in your lane” comes to mind.


  • Expecting women to help men is like expecting men to give women the right to vote suddenly on their own initiative.

    If you’re essentializing the left you’re stuck in meaningless ideology. “Kill All Men” is a good T-shirt and let’s not pretend women shouldn’t look out for women. Intersectional Feminism might have good ad copy but expecting an ideology to cure all problems is a broken (and male-oriented) way of viewing the world.

    “If we just get the ideology right the hard work will disappear!” No, men are still going to have to help other men and “Intersectional Feminism” is still going to be either 1) a way to a more nuanced feminism (a good thing for those feminists to develop, don’t get me wrong), or 2) an Extremely Online project of no real consequence.