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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Talking about the patriarchy is feminism. Feminism necessarily centers women, or it’s not really feminism, degraded into an all-encompassing ideology devoid of its intended purpose.

    (PETA isn’t feminism just because it can invoke the language of oppression.)

    So yes, I advance this notion that talking about the patriarchy in a topic about male pain is centering feminism and therefore centering women. I don’t see that this should be controversial.

    Except, of course, to those who universalize feminism into a cure-all ideology, which is shorthand for broken thinking which diverts feminism from its purpose.

    You can’t fix men with feminism: that’s an incoherent idea.





  • But people are listening to me.

    You haven’t addressed anything the other person has said.

    So?

    My point is about the nature of their statement and how it centers women in a topic that is about how when men speak about feelings women center a feminine perspective.

    Just because you’re not listening doesn’t mean others aren’t.