[Modern] Feminism seems to me to be very similar to Marxism in how it breaks down society.

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[Modern] Feminism seems to me to be very similar to Marxism in how it breaks down society.
 

Feminism and gender studies have essentially become is the art of teaching people in how to see the world through bitter glasses.

In Marxism, one is taught to see the entire world through the lens of class-struggle. The capital owning class are exploiting the worker. And if one is a worker, one is taught to see (with "new eyes") how that is happening all around them, if they would only look.

Feminism is quite similar, except that we have replaced "the bourgeoisie" with "the patriarchy".

I made a post online recently regarding misandry/misogeny and the election and got some replies from what I felt were some very biased feminists. To quote:

Woman 1: "Why is misandry always treated as a heinous crime and misogyny is just an accepted matter of course?"

Women 2: "...as we all witnessed last night, what women experience does not fucking matter--it's all about the pricks."

I don't think misogyny was every accepted as a matter of course. If anything I think men were more protective of women historically, and guarded against men who weren't.

But what both of these women have for certain, is an absolute bitterness threaded into the way they perceived the world.

The kind of attitude dis-empowers the viewer. It teaches them that every time they don't get ahead, it is because of class struggle (or whatever kind of systematic oppression is the flavor of the day). Some shadow called "societal oppression". And it can be found absolutely everywhere once one has been trained to look for it. I say this dis-empowers the viewer because once someone is trained to see slights and oppression everywhere, they come to believe that anytime they don't succeed or don't get ahead, it is because of those external things rather than anything having to do with themselves. Now these people don't even become lazy per-se, but what they do is put their energy in the wrong place. They dedicate the full amount of their time and labor fighting against this demon called oppression, because THAT is how they will get ahead rather than working on themselves. Seems to me that is the opposite of how people who believe in free markets operate, and the results in how those people do in life speak for themselves.

Perceptions of racism work in a similar way. I recently watched a podcast (I think from Lauren Southern can't quite remember) talking about a class where the students were asked to identify examples of "white privilege" in society. One example that the instructor brought up was that if you go into a drug store and buy a box of band aids, the band aids are skin colored to a white person's skin rather than a black persons. (Mind you, that skin color would also match a Hispanic person's skin, an Asian person's skin, an Iranian person's skin, a Lebanese person, etc...). So I don't think it can be intelligently argued that it's an example of white privilege. If one truly cared about band-aid color, perhaps at most it could be argued that it's an example of a black person lack privilege compared to every other ethnic group is society. But my point is; the only way one could find band aid color as an example of white privilege is if one been systematically trained to find it everywhere one looks in society.

My final though about this is, if I really wanted to destroy a group of people, what would be a more efficient way to go about it: A) Directly attempt suppress and dis-empower them by force or, B) Give those people the tools by which they would dis-empower themselves and each other.