One thing I’m feeling increasingly is that the entire ‘gender war’ conversation has become overly ideological and essentialistic. Both the feminists and the manosphere thinkers are, more and more, reducing the sexes down to oversimplified stereotypes. Whether it’s man or bear, chad alpha and virgin loser, toxic …
One thing I’m feeling increasingly is that the entire ‘gender war’ conversation has become overly ideological and essentialistic. Both the feminists and the manosphere thinkers are, more and more, reducing the sexes down to oversimplified stereotypes. Whether it’s man or bear, chad alpha and virgin loser, toxic masculinity, or the feminized culture. Everything is about broad categories and grand theories explaining the problem with men/women. I can’t count the number of articles on Substack that amount to think pieces explaining the ultimate fundamental nature of the sexes.
I just find it depressing and somewhat dehumanizing to both men and women. It’s hard to put your finger on exactly what unifies all of this, but it feels like people are increasingly seeing other people through a rigid lens of rules and categories instead of seeing them as individuals. Perhaps this relates to an increasingly consumerist financialized culture where everything is a product. How much do you earn? What is your status? Even falling in love has become a marketplace officiated by big tech companies.
Anyway kind of a meandering comment. I’m just wondering if our culture as a whole has become retrograde in a way most people aren’t recognizing. Maybe the ‘ick’ I get from a lot of these gender war think pieces is based.
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One thing I’m feeling increasingly is that the entire ‘gender war’ conversation has become overly ideological and essentialistic. Both the feminists and the manosphere thinkers are, more and more, reducing the sexes down to oversimplified stereotypes. Whether it’s man or bear, chad alpha and virgin loser, toxic masculinity, or the feminized culture. Everything is about broad categories and grand theories explaining the problem with men/women. I can’t count the number of articles on Substack that amount to think pieces explaining the ultimate fundamental nature of the sexes.
I just find it depressing and somewhat dehumanizing to both men and women. It’s hard to put your finger on exactly what unifies all of this, but it feels like people are increasingly seeing other people through a rigid lens of rules and categories instead of seeing them as individuals. Perhaps this relates to an increasingly consumerist financialized culture where everything is a product. How much do you earn? What is your status? Even falling in love has become a marketplace officiated by big tech companies.
Anyway kind of a meandering comment. I’m just wondering if our culture as a whole has become retrograde in a way most people aren’t recognizing. Maybe the ‘ick’ I get from a lot of these gender war think pieces is based.