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November 9 - November 14, 2022
“It is women who are paying the highest price for men’s dysfunction. We are not in opposition to them at all.� And he’s right. Men’s healing is in women’s interest, though for women that healing will mean accepting on some level not only that men are—here is the dreaded word—victims of the patriarchy, too, but (and this will be the hardest part to swallow) that women have been codeterminers in the system, at times as invested and active as men themselves in making and keeping men in their role. From the feminist point of view this sounds at best like an abdication of responsibility, an easy
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Modern day so-called feminists have forgotten the true point of this movement and here the author states it quite clearly: Men and women are BOTH negatively impacted by rigid gender roles. Furthermore, society has gotten caught in a ridiculous, dangerous trap with one segment of society vilifying another in the hopes of elevating themselves. That may work short term, but the long term consequences are disastrous and is still a form of stereotyping, profiling, discrimination. Women are not elevated when we denigrate men by labeling them all as bad, evil, sexist, misogynistic, etc.
