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Anyway: as regards Western feminism, it is worth disregarding for the most part, just because people of a middle class and higher bent require that no psychological anguish of an ongoing or warlike sort should be required, in operations against oneself, to rid oneself over time of the patriarchal lurgy. They walk around condescending and lecturing to others because this is simply easier than looking at a very ugly thing and seeing the tentacles of it inside themselves.
Some cretin lectured me tonight about the basics of structuralist thinking and how masculinity is a construct, which, they assert, is based on hostility to women. It can be so and it often is -- but it is an amateur's mistake in thinking to maintain that something is always and necessarily so. It's also absurd to lecture me with the assumption that I don't know what I'm talking about. An aging aunt or priestly fellow might do that.
Also if one has already done the gruesome work of extracting patriarchy, then why would one submit to a maiden aunt just because she began yelling? The assumption about moral laziness is extremely insulting.
I think that when Western feminists start to pay close attention to what I am really saying, rather than what they think I am saying, they will be just beginning to reach the point where they can treat women as people. But the ability to listen to the actual content and not to disregard it as mere ideology, takes an intense degree of intellectual rigor and moral courage. Don't expect it from those who embrace an ideology of feminism because they want to make their lives easier by appealing to an ideology
Anyway: as regards Western feminism, it is worth disregarding for the most part, just because people of a middle class and higher bent require that no psychological anguish of an ongoing or warlike sort should be required, in operations against oneself, to rid oneself over time of the patriarchal lurgy. They walk around condescending and lecturing to others because this is simply easier than looking at a very ugly thing and seeing the tentacles of it inside themselves.
Some cretin lectured me tonight about the basics of structuralist thinking and how masculinity is a construct, which, they assert, is based on hostility to women. It can be so and it often is -- but it is an amateur's mistake in thinking to maintain that something is always and necessarily so. It's also absurd to lecture me with the assumption that I don't know what I'm talking about. An aging aunt or priestly fellow might do that.
Also if one has already done the gruesome work of extracting patriarchy, then why would one submit to a maiden aunt just because she began yelling? The assumption about moral laziness is extremely insulting.
I think that when Western feminists start to pay close attention to what I am really saying, rather than what they think I am saying, they will be just beginning to reach the point where they can treat women as people. But the ability to listen to the actual content and not to disregard it as mere ideology, takes an intense degree of intellectual rigor and moral courage. Don't expect it from those who embrace an ideology of feminism because they want to make their lives easier by appealing to an ideology
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