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1. "The problem with MRAs is not that they can’t see the ways that masculinity is a harmful trap, but that they can’t take the next step to solidarity w/ women. Instead they transform it back into more misogyny, because they can’t stop seeing women as soft targets."
2. "But if more men could see that while this “male” brain—a baby id made into adult ego, an invented voice that can be hard to take seriously, but is nonetheless dangerous—may feel like an inextricable part of who they are, it is also exists outside of us, and in women as well."
3. "Louis Althusser famously said, 'ideology has no history,' and patriarchy seems like the most obvious successful ideology to convince us of this fact. What feels natural and spontaneous is the result of frequently invisible, complex, and even self-contradictory, ideas."
4a. "Even a few minutes spent probing [masculinity's] assumptions reveals its disjunctures and pitfalls. . "
4b. ". . .but sometimes that fact seems worthless because even men who see this are often willing to bully or shout down a woman that might question, in a way he does not agree with, a particular manifestation of one of one of those disjunctures "
5. "Mansplaining mansplainers mansplaining mansplaining to everyone but other men."
6. From "Songs in Conversation: Those are Some Fragile Men, Baby Doll." https://themiddlespaces.com/2016/06/07/songs-in-conversation-baby-doll-men/
