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But more to bullying -- and toxic masculinity. I just wanted to point out that I wave a similar flag to good old Street, though we had different modes...

Heh. I'll note that I don't deplore violence in principle. Context matters, and the series of sins goes back and forth. While I dislike violence, I do...

:D I'm still looking for the loop back -- but I can see the relation due to the timing of trans issues becoming more prominent in popular discourse al...

You ever heard the expression that the media is a mirror? I think it works especially well for Twitter-- it's tailored for you. You can block who you ...

I think the idea is that we're the superheroes in the story -- rather than a jefe who brought order, the anti-authoritarian wants leaderless order, th...

My first thought is that people who are afraid, guilty, disgusted, and anxious probably are low on trust. If bad things are also happening to you, as ...

I'd say the stakes are about constant, but that relative-power fluctuates. Or maybe the perception of relative-power changed as people began to seek i...

OK, that's a good question. I don't think we're at that level. The only people I've known who take intersectionality seriously are people who have tri...

It's all of those things. I wouldn't discount those as propaganda. I mean -- if it's in a newspaper it's probably propaganda, even. It's the media-for...

What helped Occupy take off was the internet. It was an emulation of the Arab Spring. The new thing is the form of media has changed -- it's the mater...

That's the first time for me. Fucking awesome. Thanks for sharing it.

Addressing this more specifically -- I'm pointing to examples that I'm familiar with. In terms of the international order: they don't exist. That's a ...

That's not my callousness -- I care about anti-capitalist politics. I care about the state of the world, and it bothers me that we are so callous towa...

Aren't they all deniable on any grounds? "Oppression" is pretty abstract. And history can't be falsified. So, depending upon how we tell the story, th...

My question is open-ended. You're free to say what you like. This isn't a yes-and-no style of questioning. You're allowed as much nuance and context a...

No. I think it obvious I'm concerned about ramifications. But I also don't think I'm The One, or somehow have a special knowledge. I'm reflecting on w...

Heh. I wouldn't want to make anything I've said thus far a law. I'm attracted to the political, but not in that way. I'll ask again, though -- what is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll3CMgiUPuU&ab_channel=Jazzaddict98 Surely I've posted this before -- it's just hitting the good notes tonight for me.

Legislate? No. I'm certainly nowhere near to making a proposition for laws, at least. Not at all.

Cool :)

Heh. That's the second prophet who some consider false! Sorry. I couldn't help myself with the "Smith" name.

Oh I know of one Smith who not only thought of himself that way, but also convinced enough people to start a religion. Though he had wives.

Also I should say that the above is merely with respect to intersectionality, since it's understandably been brought up. I think that Feminism counts ...

Good reflections and arguments, Isaac. At least from my vantage. I'm glad to have something meatier to think through. A measurement isn't always a goo...

Yeh. I hope the best for him. He's a treasure.

Going back through the thread to pick up some parts that still seem relevant, that I haven't responded to, and make something of a synthesis at this p...

True. Then you're right -- we were opaque to one another. That makes a good deal of sense to me. My bad. But muh materialism! :D

OK I just re-read that exchange and I understand the confusion. I'm sorry. I'm the one who mixed up usually/generally. My bad. So I want to say -- I k...

Part of my hesitancy probably draws from my philosophical perspective -- I don't want to list traits or characteristics, and I want to qualify behavio...

While I'm hesitant to say this is a post-patriarchal masculinity, I gather I'd be better off putting some meat on the bones of what appears to be a de...

Okie, no worries. I can understand that feeling. I can let it go too.

A misunderstanding on the usage of "generally" then -- Generally, as in what I'd predict people to say, I have a sense for this. Generally, as in what...

Heh, well -- not for me. Not even psychological traits and characteristics differentiate gender, from what I see -- but rather how those are expressed...

Glad to have you still along :)

Cool, no worries. I thought it was so I thought I ought respond -- it is my thread after all. True. And I'll admit that my perspective isn't exactly t...

But the emphasis on the psyche over the role -- that's the patriarchal move identified by Kate Millet. At least this is what came to mind in reading y...

Hey, thanks for keeping it going! :D Keep it up, I say. The charge of misandry is a serious one that should be addressed, so I thought I should say so...

There's the aspect of reducing masculinity to psychology, which I'd say is similar to the response to feminist criticism which puts their critique of ...

*shrugs* No worries. I could have also read a bit slower, and all that rot. Now we know who said what. The reality of patrarchy, to me, has always ser...

This mental move is exactly what Kate Millet describes as the patriarchal move -- the mental is the explanatory intermediary between biological sign a...

Well, she wouldn't exactly know it from the standpoint of a father, would she? It's an outsider perspective -- one which is valuable if we want to see...

I agree that it's important to make a distinction between masculinity and a toxic masculinity. I don't think all masculinities, even traditional ones,...

Nope. That's why I've been careful to say men and women can have the same characteristics, and a difference cannot be found in differentiating charact...

I agree with your first statement, but I disagree with your second. I've come around in saying difference is a part of some gender identities. And whi...

I don't see it as misandrist. While a stereotype, surely it's known that men can be possessive of their women? This isn't an "all men" statement, but ...

I'd say philosophy does, too. And the arts in general, for that matter. What's mysterious is that philosophy progresses, but it doesn't progress in th...

I disagree -- surprise! :D I think the phenomenologists overcome internal/external, but it's very easy to read our Cartesian assumptions into their wo...

Seconded. I feel like the scientific pedagogy tries to highlight history but it's not focused on it, so it's kind of bad history so it's definitely so...

In this sense I am not a historicist, then. I mostly think about Popper when I think about the accusation of historicist, and that's the name I don't ...

And, even there -- this is again in the territory that @"fdrake" already called attention to, where the masculine and the feminine are being defined b...