Are there any left leaning people who seem to be critical of feminism, to reject this dichotomy: "men are the oppressors, women are the oppressed" or to (at least) acknowledge the existence of men's issues?
I've seen a comment here in one the posts of this subreddit making a small list of these people, such as: Shoe0nHead, Kyle Kulinski, Glenn Greenwald etc. Are there any more?
Sugabelly (Lotanna Igwe-Odunze) recently called out Akwaeke Emezi for exploiting the "Ogbanje" as an identity in a long Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/sugabelly/status/1440300015373590530
Maybe someone in this community knows more about the history and mythology of the concept and term to provide more context.
Every single sex community (and I do mean every single one) I have been around has made me feel absolutely disgusted with its rampant misogyny, entitlement and androcentrism. Clitorises still being neglected, ideas about the "sexual market", about lonely men being victimised by women and their high standards, about (men's) porn and fetishes being key to female sexual liberation, male lack of consideration for their female sexual partners being seen as "just men being men" and "some women being into that", calling women prudes (oh how often I have seen women having to put massive disclaimers about how kinky and adventurous they are any time they have the gall to refuse an unpleasant and/or degrading sex act or, heaven forbid, complain about how normalised and expected it is), complete blindness to the sexual inequalities that women deal with, on top of ignorance in regards to misogyny in general, assumptions of it being normal for male interests to include wanting to subjugate women and do things to them that are widely seen as unpleasant and degrading, which is frequently subtly talked about as "male sexuality" that our misandrist puritanical world (and cough,cough certain groups) is on a crusade against, maledom being a presumed norm and that pandering to men, performing femininity and fitting female beauty standards is sexually liberating because female sexuality is emotional and reactive (i.e. passive).
Whenever I have seen (pretty much solely) women try to criticise these assumptions, they would walk on eggshells, apologising all the way, insisting that they're adventurous otherwise, that it's all fine and okay and that they're not questioning anything that anyone is doing, but that they just have a few things that are rubbing them the wrong way. This would then get shut down immediately with notions that it's kink-shaming, sex negative and/or misandrist against "male sexuality". And they're right. If your argument is that any expression of sexuality is fine as long as it's consensual*, how can you possibly talk about the inequality, neglect, unfair treatment, degradation, ignorance, damaging norms and objectification that women are put through in sex, which only gets worse the more extreme the content gets (but is present even in "vanilla" sex)? How is the insistence that sexual interests have no bearing on reality possibly compatible with acknowledging the very real damage these sexual interests do to women both in how they're perceived i
... keep reading on reddit โกIโve seen so many people review movies, video games and use these terms and phrases in them. Frankly, itโs extremely annoying, hypocritical and childish, and in my opinion, it instantly makes everything else that you have said lose a major amount of credibility.
The most recent examples for reviews like this would be for things such as: Black Panther, Star Wars, Captain Marvel (even though the film isnโt even out people are still banging on about the SJW and feminist propaganda) and the list goes on.
All Iโm saying is that it just pisses me off that people who complain about politics in movies, bring politics into their reviews of movies in the form of phrases like SJW and gender politics and so on.
I think it's like RussiaGate. A non-zero amount of coverage is fine, but it's given way more attention than it deserves.
Woketards know that Feminism is getting a lot of bad press, so they knew they needed to do some requisite feminist bashing of their own, while at the same time taking heat away from the SJWs.
I honestly think ppl like Contrapoints are lying when they say they're surprised TERFs never took off.
Bitch, you knew they were a fringe group with no hope of gaining traction from the get go.
Edit: I also think far right ppl are influencing too many ppl to slingshot in the other idpol direction -- Sargon is so cringeworthy that it's bait to move ppl to any part of the left they want.
"SWERFs" shouldn't be ostracised from the feminist movement, since they are the movement. On the pornograohy/prostitution front "sex-positive feminists" are stagnant.
"sex-positive feminists" say regulating prostitution will solve all the problems, but that wasn't the case with the porn industry.
It also hasn't worked in countries that have tried it, like Germany. The vast majority of prostitutes in Germany aren't even German! That screams the the obvious fact that if every woman was at least as comfortable economically as the average German woman then prostitution would likely not even exist!
"sex-positive feminists" will say porn is freedom of speech, but real people (usually the most economically vulnerable) are being exploited, abused & even raped, making the resulting recording not a exercise of free speech, but evidence of a crime!
