Edit. I want to kill myself reading the comments. Guess it's because I deserve it as a toxic male.

  • CrookedSerpent [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Women is when not alienated by late-capitalist hellworld, men is when alienated by late-capitalist hellworld. Thank you reddit, very cool!

    • carbohydra [des/pair]
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      3 years ago

      Obviously women are alienated too, but this takes different forms. Women can be open about struggling without facing major social consequences (labor consequences may be a different story). Men will not even acknowledge that they have any problems in the first place, which makes them that much harder to deal with. Women on the other hand are almost expected to have some defect, in basically a modern evolution of the infantilizing "hysteria" argument. Women can say "sorry I didn't do task X, my ADHD was acting up again" and it's no big deal, but I've never heard a man use such an excuse, either because they don't want to admit it to themselves or because they're afraid they will be looked down upon. (My defaulting to "them" in that last sentence may very well be a Freudian slip.) People aren't afraid of women like they are of men, which I think speaks to how much more messed up men are. It's no coincidence that fascists (maybe one of the purest forms of projection) are a male-dominated movement.