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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(November 29, 2020 03:44 AM)
Curious that everyone sees Solanas as crazy while Steinem is taken seriously. If Steinem had shot Warhol instead, we'd be discussing Solanas's rant right now.
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(November 29, 2020 03:38 AM)
No, because I never let castrating women of that ilk anywhere near my prized possessions - my balls! But any man who believes that tripe? He may as well be a eunuch or a homosexual prison bitch. No woman would want him.
At first I thought you were the OP's author. I'm heartened to learn you did not write that misandrist rant yourself. You should have added a disclaimer.
This is the problem with Steinem's brand of feminism. She's trying to fit the ancient battle of the sexes into a modern Marxist dynamic. That doesn't work.
Even in my most fascist right wing phases, I still revere Karl Marx. He thoroughly explained history as no man before him. And his analysis works today even as global corporatism smugly announces the death of Communism.
Class warfare, between the capitalist, the nobility, the upper castes on one hand versus the worker and peasant on the other explains all of history from the first agriculturists onward. Us, the middle class, the bourgeoisie, the stockholder, blah blah blah are like parasites being kept alive by the wealthy elite.
Marxist analysis can be applied to race as well. These are group dynamics. If we want to talk about the tyranny of white people, we can even apply that to mixed raced societies like Mexico, Brazil or the West Indies, where the lighter the skin, the more European blood one has, the higher they are on the ladder of economic wealth and power in those societies.
But you cannot apply a Marxist analysis of class or race to the conflict between genders. This is all rooted in biology. And I'm not saying that males have not used their biology to subjugate women. I'm saying that biology and natural design make it impossible to compare the binary gender dynamic to class warfare as Steinem tries to do.
Males are bigger and stronger than females. They are never incapacitated by pregnancy and the rearing of infants. Men stand to pee and women are more vulnerable because they squat. This is all very rudimentary stuff.
Long story short, gender conflict is biological and natural. Class and race conflict is a social dynamic. Second wave feminism, though useful for political organization, is bereft of any real philosophical foundation.
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(November 29, 2020 03:43 AM)
You're overthinking it. Women menstruating has nothing inherently disgusting about it, and men claiming to find it disgusting simply have not resolved certain Oedipal or other issues. I'm not turned off by menstrual blood at all, because I'm a rational person (tampons are the vampire's teabags, don't you know?). So, leaving aside the notion of inferiority and superiority (most women are, by and large, morally more attractive than most men), it is the sign of patriarchal irrationality to find menstrual blood disgusting.
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(November 29, 2020 05:15 AM)
Meh, bleeding is a sign of injury. Every mother knows that. This stuff is more related to human psychology, not patriarchy per se.
But I didn't mention menstruation specifically. I focused on the smaller female anatomy, pregnancy, child rearing and the male penis as a projectile pee gun and aggressive instrument of insertion. The point is biology and gender binary gives males the ability to dominate. It's not a social invention like class and race.
Interesting point on the vampirism. I was in jail once with a self-proclaimed vampire. They segregate all the homosexuals in separate housing and he was put in with us because he had HIV from drinking women's menstrual blood.
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(November 29, 2020 06:46 AM)
Then explain patriarchy to me. It's all based on biology. Technology and birth control liberated women, not politics.
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(November 29, 2020 06:52 AM)
Well Gloria Steinem and Second Wave feminists didn't and never could do it because they don't understand the source of patriarchy.
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