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I always thought zootopia worked really well as an allegory for gender. Nice to see someone else bringing this up!
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/01/24 10:23 PM
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Personally, I can say that I did not feel remotely understood reading The Will to Change. That's not to say bell hooks wasn't trying to relate to men, but the social forces and life experiences she focuses on just do not map onto my life experience at all, nor does it map onto the experiences of the men I've talked to on the subject. To be honest, much the book's analysis of men looks more like hooks airing out her personal baggage than an attempt at impartial understanding. For example, she ded…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/12/23 05:53 PM
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Other commenters have touched on other aspects of left-wing voting, but I want to draw attention to this particular line in your post: I also have a strong emphasis on traditional values, that the husband leads the household, and the wife is feminine and submissive I believe that this attitude is fundamentally incompatible with a genuinely pro-male outlook. A husband "leading" a household is, all too often, simply a euphemism for a husband offering up his income to appease his wife, who gets to …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/11/23 02:05 AM
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Thank you! The key is to find people, in real life and in print, who are smarter and more well-read than you currently are, and never stop talking to them and/or reading their work. If you listen to podcasts, consider replacing some of them with a video lecture series on a topic that interests you. Find online spaces that spend time talking about intellectual topics (my favorite is lesswrong). And make sure that you're truly interested in whatever you're reading! If your heart isn't in it, you w…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/10/23 03:23 PM
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I think the best arguments against feminism are those that attack feminism as a theoretical framework, not a political agenda. Patriarchy theory has a nasty habit of trying to overgeneralize complicated and disparate phenomenon, squeezing as much as it can into its umbrella in a way that is technically internally coherent, but fails to account for competing hypotheses. The conceptual category of Benevolent Sexism is a classic example of this failure. Say we observe that courts punish men more ha…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/10/23 09:24 PM
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If you personally know any men who have been assaulted and left without resources due to the office's policy, I think this would give your request a lot of weight that it wouldn't otherwise have. I also recommend keeping your reasons justifying the need for male-specific SA resources to be as localized as possible. For example, an argumemt that shelters tend to victim bame men who are looking for help would only hold up if you have testimony of your university doing this. Otherwise, the departme…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/05/23 01:12 PM
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It still would be useful to know the name of the charity, no?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/04/23 05:44 AM
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You can check the previous post, there's usually a pretty decent amount of discussion: https://redd.it/11ei9cb
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates31/03/23 10:26 PM
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I think it'd be worth asking around to see if your gut feeling about women's reaction to the character is accurate. I know that personally, I would have wanted to believe exactly what you did, which makes me want to be extra careful about verifying that it's actually true. Just a thought about holding ourselves to a high standard, etc.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates31/03/23 04:15 AM
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I might try to draw an analogy with an experience women have in which they follow similar logic. For example, women will have their sexual boundaries violated pretty often, and as a result, a man saying "no, I promise I'm a decent person" just isn't going to cut it for a lot of women, no matter how decent the man actually is. If you get burned enough times, you become a lot slower to trust people, and it comes through slow exposure to that person's behavior, not verbal testimony. As for convinci…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/12/22 05:47 PM
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But that's the point for them, isn't it? Just slap one of these onto an interlocuter and you don't have to deal with them anymore. Surely there's a better solution? I hope?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/10/22 12:13 PM
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If I were writing this, "I'd prefer an actual answer" would be a tad confrontational for my tastes. I might recommend something along of the lines of "I have read these, and think they are unsatisfactory for reasons X, Y, and Z." Nitpicks aside, I'm very happy you're sending an email like this. Best of luck with everything!
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/09/22 05:01 AM
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I'm kind of in disbelief that your partner would even mention breaking up over this. If I were to pick out the few places where I disagree with your list, it would come off as cheap nitpicking. I don't really have the chops to advise you about your relationship in this light, but I think your views themselves are rock-solid here.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/08/22 12:31 PM
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Please keep us posted on your search! I'm also interested in the topic and have the same preference for more tempered pieces of writing.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/08/22 01:24 AM
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I do suspect that, when the author notes how the atheist blogs switched over in droves to being feminist blogs, he's doing that thing everybody does where you overgeneralize the patterns in your subculture to the whole world. Maybe his story holds for the blogosphere, but I think you're spot-on, both in pointing out how feminism had already been mainstream, and in noting how new atheism never really went offline.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/08/22 01:22 AM
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