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imaginary defects | when dogmas label us flawed

HeavenLeaves

April 25, 2020

12 upvotes

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqnCwp9Ia68&t=

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Title	imaginary defects \| when dogmas label us flawed
Author	HeavenLeaves
Upvotes	12
Comments	6
Date	April 25, 2020 6:50 PM UTC (6 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates/comments/g7yyxv/imaginary_defects_when_dogmas_label_us_flawed/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates/imaginary-defects-when-dogmas-label-us-flawed.1063615 https://theredarchive.com/post/1063615

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[–]Sewblon 3 points4 points5 points 6 years ago (5 children) | Copy Link

[–]meringue-smooth 1 point2 points3 points 6 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link

The video is a dissection of how ideologies and religions use dogma to incite a state of perpetual insecurity in its followers. It also explains how followers are able to attribute imagined motives to the actions of others.

The first segment about the therapy patient being late for a session holds up in terms of male advocacy. In the example, the therapist attributes the patient's lateness to deep-seated fear of therapy, or a passive aggressive manoeuvre. But it could equally just be that the trains were disrupted, however the therapist does not entertain this possibility.

In terms of male advocacy, this is the equivalent of feminists attributing a gender earnings gap to sexist hiring practices, rather than differing career choices between the genders. Or an incidence of rape to be indicative of a rape culture, and not simply the abhorrent actions of a single criminal. Or a man speaking to a child at a playground as evidence he is a pedophile, and not simply saying hello to a friend of his own child.

The whole point of the video is that ideologies have the power to convince people that "sin" is inherent to whole groups of people, and not just to individuals. They have the power to turn huge groups of people against another group of people by suggesting malintent or corruption where there may be none.

In short, "toxic masculinity" is an ideological construct and not a universal truth.

Edit: spellings

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[–]Sewblon 3 points4 points5 points 6 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

[–]nonsensepoem 2 points3 points4 points 6 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

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