Crosspost "Leftist men are men first, and everything else second." from /r/fourthwavewomen:

This is not a new concept but it's really hit me over the head these past few days. Most here will be familiar with the mantra that "conservative men view women as private property, whereas leftist men view women as public property." While this succinctly outlines the underlying issue of leftist men, it doesn't illustrate the point as vividly as the current ongoing explosion of the prominent Reddit community, /r/ antiwork.

For the uninitiated, I'll try to be brief in the prologue -- though the full story is interesting as hell and still ongoing, not all the details are relevant.

/R/ antiwork was a sub that quickly bloomed in popularity, mainly by discussing the injustices of modern capitalist workplaces. It had over 1.6 million members who mainly hailed from a variety of leftist viewpoints, though conservatives were occasionally also present. The mod team decided to interview with Fox News, against the subs wishes. After the interview -- which bombed -- all hell broke loose on the offending male moderator.

His Reddit history was combed through. His Facebook. His past activism. This 30-year-old anarchist had his allegedly leftist life picked apart on the frontpage of the internet. Behind the layers of unwashed hair, the unkempt studio apartment he aired on live TV, was a serial rapist. A serial rapist who has spent years in positions of power in anarchist and leftist groups. A serial rapist who wrote a Facebook confession of his behavior, describing how he repeatedly violated the boundaries of the ex-partner who accused him. Of course, he also made sure to mention how his abuse of his partner gave him PTSD and suicidal thoughts. He mentioned how it hadn't been easy for him to live after the abuse. Typical, right?

Somehow, despite the lengthy public confession of serial sexual abuse attached to his FULL NAME AND PHOTO on Facebook, this man's life was far from ruined. After he had raped and assaulted a girl, repeatedly? Confessed to it online? He was able to slowly go back to leftist leadership roles. His life wasn't ruined until he decided not shower or prepare any notes before a news interview representing roughly a million-and-a-half people.

But, you think, that's just one mod. Well, it was. After the rapist mod was removed, another mod made a post for the subreddit to try and smooth things over. This time, the mod is a twenty-one year old male anarchist who claims to read theory and wants to increase transparency on the sub. He brusquely handles the prior fuck-up and doesn't apologize on behalf of the mod team. People on the sub, disquieted by this, do some more digging on his background. Wouldn't you know what they find? Deeply misogynistic posts by the new mod where he describes, in exaggerated detail, the outfits his female classmates are wearing. How their clothing choices upset him. How he sometimes sees women as barely human. How they're often more trouble than they're worth. True incel shit. But there he had been, posting this garbage under the same username where he was prominently talking about equality and leftist ideals. I guess nobody cared to look (or cared at all, period)?

I'm not saying any of this to smear leftism. I'm a leftist myself and (pre-covid) I was active in in-person leftist spaces. I'm saying this to warn the leftist women here, the women who (like the best of us) let their hope for truly allied men betray their common sense. We know that leftist men often wrap themselves in the protective armor of theory. Let me put it bluntly, if hyperbolically -- to these men, your personhood is theoretical. Your equality is, to them, an assertion requiring premises and support. Your behavior on any given day, your outfit, your opinions and, yes, your lack of desire to have sex with him will be enough to strip away some of the shiny academic veneer they've put on their sexism.

Don't let them fool you, don't drop your guard. Leftist men are still men.

Posted by women_are_born | 28 January 2022 | Link