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As I have said before there is nothing toxic about masculinity, and yet, and yet, my friends, there are many things that men do that are shall we say less than ideal, things that are hurtful to women, and shall we not call those things âtoxicâ ?
I have been driving towards a model of self-bootstrapping idea models, mental maps that draw themselves, whole ideological edifices that unfold in the mind from a few words. Model seeds. https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1031894708975353859
Toxic masculinity is a seed of a mental model. Two words convey a universe of meaning. You have but to hear them and you instantly know. And what do you know, precisely?
To grow, the seed requires a substrate, and that substrate is âmen and women are interchangeable for all social purposes, gender is a social constructâ
Call this (0)
Call this (0)
(0) is a presumption of a very certain kind of equality. Itâs not legal or moral; it is, pardon the oxymoron, unilateral equality, because it starts with âmen can do anything, men are better than womenâ as underlying assumption held âby societyâ but really just âby womenâ
Thatâs right, I will say it again for the cheap seats: feminism is a philosophy whose 1st axiom is âmen can do anything, men are better than womenâ
Call this (1). But (1) contradicts (0)?
Call this (1). But (1) contradicts (0)?
Of course feminism starts with a contradiction. All ideologies begin with contradiction, because contradiction is fertile ground for false consciousness. https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1019567614580801536
Humanity is tension and contradiction is tension, and ideology is the promise of relaxation for tension, may such relaxation never come. https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1037330250961575936
If you want to understand feminism, just replace âsocietyâ and âthe patriarchyâ with âthe collective action of other womenâ
1 weird trick. It all suddenly makes sense. Feminism as philosophy is intrasexual competition
1 weird trick. It all suddenly makes sense. Feminism as philosophy is intrasexual competition
Every woman knows in her heart that the biggest misogynists are other women. Thatâs because women are instinctively attuned to the subtle jabs and barbs of their sisters. When a woman praises another woman, it is always an attack
Just look at the women who originated feminism, and who maintain it. They are ugly, yes? They have much to compete with and much to resent.
So what did the feminists do? They did the most Nietzschean thing imaginable, they created their own values, and dared to imagine the ĂŒberfrau, But their imagination did not wander far, because they labored under (1) above
The ĂŒberfrau for feminists is simply an idealized man. For Woman does not see Man as he is, she does not see his highs and lows, because she has only ever concerned herself with his heights. Why would she bother to look down?
From (0) we know that men and women are socially interchangeable, and from (1) we know that men are better than women (in the female mind). The square of this circle is given the name of patriarchy https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1020322404751441921
Patriarchy is the synthesis of (0) and (1), because it CREATES sexual differentiation, perhaps even sexual dimorphism. Feminism is Nietzschean because it is an inversion of all values; the ideal for man becomes femininity, and the ideal for woman becomes masculinity
With this inversion, failure to live up to ones antithesis becomes a kind of spiritual debt. Masculinity in men, and femininity in women becomes an original sin, and redemption is found in homosexuality and self-evisceration https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1027980791274332161
There is an asymmetry to the way that feminism deals with men and women, of course. Even when interchangeability of the sexes is axiomatic, no one can escape the truth in front of their eyes, which every man and woman experiences in every moment of life
When women fall to embody masculinity, it is menâs fault, and women are the victims of oppression. When men fall to embody femininity (and they almost always do, much as water fails to be fire), it is menâs fault, and men are enactors of toxic masculinity.
Feminism CREATES toxic masculinity just as Christianity creates sin and Buddhism creates samsara and Marxism creates class oppression. Religion proclaims itself a doctor, invents a disease, diagnoses you with it, and hands you a bill
Women get a prescription from feminism: renounce femininity, become like men, otherwise you are oppressed. Masculinity is empowerment.
Men get a prescription too; renounce masculinity, get in touch with your feminine side, otherwise you are an oppressor, masculinity is toxic
Men get a prescription too; renounce masculinity, get in touch with your feminine side, otherwise you are an oppressor, masculinity is toxic
What was originally a project to erase the âgender binaryâ had no choice but to subvert itself, because the binary cannot be erased. Feminism settled for inversion of norms, because feminism lacked the charms and beauty to entice the object of its true desire
