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I think, like, once this historical moment ends and we're left to pick up the pieces, the question for our generation (and especially the ones after us!) is, like, how do you build a society in which young men don't just, spontaneously, as a class, become fascist?
Right now there's a new wave of feminism and with it more freedoms for sexual minorities every ~50 years and *every* time that happens the world lurches rightward on the backs of young, sexually insecure men with extreme privilege. How do we build a social system in which white dudes don't decide to vote in fascists the world over because they think racial minorities are taking their women from them, I'm genuinely asking.
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@AppleAmps IDK i think white men are just evil

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@AppleAmps solution: forcefem all men

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@AppleAmps @julia don’t do democracy it’s litterally designed to punch down on minorities, honestly just don’t do giving people power in general

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For the record, not all men or whatever, if trans women occupied the social class cis men do rn we'd be doing the same shit. Gender essentialism is incredibly dumb.
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@AppleAmps I feel like bell hooks might talk about this in her book "the will to change". I never finished it, but I 'member she at the very least talked about how boys are raised to be killers, which is a related issue.

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I agree with this completely, yeah. I don't think there's like, an inherent problem with androgens or whatever, we just raise boys to be the worst possible versions of themselves and then feel bad when those versions burn the world down.
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@monaant
Also thanks for the reading recommendation!
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@AppleAmps you definitely teach how fascism forms, how it rises out of desires for singular heroes to save the day and how it promises to give the very freedoms it removes.

Many people didn’t see the rise in fascism coming because it was not commonplace to study how it begins, we only recognize it after it’s set up and by then the brainwash has taken hold

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@AppleAmps it's always patriarchy... 🦋

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