01-18-2014, 11:45 PM
For a social institution (eg. masculinity, femininity, "clock time" etc.) to be established it has somewhat to be functional for the collective, that being said there's always room for improvement.
<s>Modern (3rd wave?)</s> tumblrcore feminism has just become a s#*% storm of irrationality, self righteousness and self indulgence, a most shameful display. Nobody in a 1st world country "needs feminism" I really wish they would stop with those signs (oh great now I'm a "mysoginistic patriarchy enabler"...lol).
Masculinity used to be basically just a competition of who was the least "gay", and now is just a (bigger) mess of people trying to prove themselves. The whole thing is just breaking down.
The rise in the volume of the voice of the transgender population is starting to have an effect influencing many people to "transcend the conceptual duality of humans" and think more in terms of us all being one collective regardless of gender (green vmeme, see spiral dynamics). Of course that is when the message communicated is something better than "wah wah I'm so oppressed" or "give me special treatment because we're equal" (that goes for you to feminists lol).
Here's an article by a lesbian feminist who disguised herself as a man for 18 months and during the process realized "female privilege", quite interesting
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/ma...okextracts
As for my personal views, being a man held to standards of masculinity has it's issues, psychological and physical abuse is a lot more socially acceptable and rarely investigated if it's done to men for example as they should just "be a man" about it. Though females have their own problems too, of course. The thing is, if we evolved this way the two aspects of man and woman must obviously be complimentary so as much as we all like to whine about the other side not understanding or mistreating us we both need each other, so why not accept the necessary, beneficial differences and use that to help and the other?
<s>Modern (3rd wave?)</s> tumblrcore feminism has just become a s#*% storm of irrationality, self righteousness and self indulgence, a most shameful display. Nobody in a 1st world country "needs feminism" I really wish they would stop with those signs (oh great now I'm a "mysoginistic patriarchy enabler"...lol).
Masculinity used to be basically just a competition of who was the least "gay", and now is just a (bigger) mess of people trying to prove themselves. The whole thing is just breaking down.
The rise in the volume of the voice of the transgender population is starting to have an effect influencing many people to "transcend the conceptual duality of humans" and think more in terms of us all being one collective regardless of gender (green vmeme, see spiral dynamics). Of course that is when the message communicated is something better than "wah wah I'm so oppressed" or "give me special treatment because we're equal" (that goes for you to feminists lol).
Here's an article by a lesbian feminist who disguised herself as a man for 18 months and during the process realized "female privilege", quite interesting
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/ma...okextracts
As for my personal views, being a man held to standards of masculinity has it's issues, psychological and physical abuse is a lot more socially acceptable and rarely investigated if it's done to men for example as they should just "be a man" about it. Though females have their own problems too, of course. The thing is, if we evolved this way the two aspects of man and woman must obviously be complimentary so as much as we all like to whine about the other side not understanding or mistreating us we both need each other, so why not accept the necessary, beneficial differences and use that to help and the other?
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