• CTHlurker [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    What exactly is it that makes men in the West so fucking weird? I don't fucking get it.

      • nohaybanda [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        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.

      • CTHlurker [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        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.

          • mark213686123 [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            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

        • chantox
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          1 year ago

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