is the man or bear thing rhetorically or optically the perfect feminist meme that is beyond criticism? no.

but is it leaps and bounds better at getting men to understand the material consequences of patriarchy on the physical and emotional health of women than that stupid “kill all men” meme from last decade? definitely.

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    6 months ago

    Thank you for responding.

    What I’m getting is that patriarchy is a system that is structured in a way that it benefits (or disenfranchises less) those that are:

    • White
    • Wealthy
    • Born in a “Western” country?
    • Able bodied
    • Straight and cis gendered

    And that you can keep identifying different traits and expanding the list where relevant?

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      6 months ago

      No that’s kind of the opposite of the point I was making. The patriarchy is only one of all those systems of oppression that I listed.

      There is a lot of crossover, yes, but I am not equivocating any of those. They are generally distinct.