What exactly is it that makes men in the West so fucking weird? I don't fucking get it.
Y'all know that patriarchy was a thing long before capitalism came about, let alone its relatively new neoliberal iteration, right?
It's lazy and reductive to simply wave in the general direction of neoliberalism when it comes to the oppression of our non-hetcis male comrades. There's great Marxist feminist theory out there, we don't have to make shit up.
patriarchy was literally the name of the economic system before feudalism.
Maybe I'm revealing my lack of theory-reading here, but how exactly does neoliberal capitalism, which fundamentally is about expanding the consumer base to include other groups that used to be left out for non-market-based reasons.
The answer to your question has to do with commodity fetishism, neoliberalism abstracts the alienation and exploitation inherent to capitalist modes of production away from imperialist core countries and onto the global south. The means of accomplishing these changes is violent, repressive, and nightmarish; and mostly exists to funnel treats to greedy piggys in the imperial core, such as myself. Neoliberalism doesn’t create economic opportunity, it is forced privatisation of resources. It destroys the commons and forces repressive wage labor and guts social services which help people. Examples of this abound.
ok but how does this specifically relate to the weird ideas some parents have about having a say over the dating lives of their children
I really do think most men in the imperial core are toxic people that need reeducation.
Fucking weird that when some people say 'my wife/kids/son/daughter' etc the word 'my' isn't just showing u are related to them but also showing some sort of ownership.
For real, good point!
I guess under capitalism everything is framed though the concept of ownership so how else would these people know to conceptualize their familial relationships
Yeah I mean it absolutely needs saying that it is not even remotely just capitalism this relationship of ownership happens (Ancient rome for instance springs to mind) but yeah capitalism is the biggest contemporary ideology that espouses this.
As a new father, I actively try to avoid this sort of language.
I watched the video and the kid isn't even being disrespectful. Uncle Phil just doesn't want to use the boys chosen name.
"None of my children would dare disrespect me by ever bringing home a removed. They do not bring home anyone they care about. Their respect for me runs so deep that they have not come to my house or talked to me for several years."
I worry that some of these people do not understand that Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is make-believe. Some of them could probably use a reminder that if you ever find yourself in this situation the thing to do is to read your lines, like it probably says in your acting contract. Uncle Phil, if that even is his real name (it's not), is not even a real uncle.
Uncle Phil started out very welcoming to the kid. He didn’t act like an overprotective father, but genuinely seemed to want to meet the kid and even referred to him as “son”, obviously to make him feel welcome. Only when the kid was a snotty punk and started saying stupid crap and refused to tell him his name did Phil put him in his place.
put him in his place
Funny how these types always seem to know what everybody else's place is, and coincidentally it's always "beneath me".
uncle phil you gotta kick that man's BUTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
uncritical support for harlots and useless bums. love those fuckers :rat-salute:
honestly lot of this father daughter possessive stuff seems like a huge electra syndrome shit
