but hes right about a lot of things. kind of sad that this 72 year old is one of the most influential intellectual on the left today
edit: I think this post was taken in the wrong way. You should read Zizek, he does have good ideas. I call him a "grifter" not to shut down his ideas, but rather as an acknowledgement of his limitations.
When did he say anything like that? I watched a lot of lectures and I feel like I would have remembered that. The only thing I remember him saying about toxic masculinity was something about Thatcher having to be more brutal than the male politicians in order to get support from the diehards.
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Zizek tends to explain how things are more difficult and have multiple facets compared to the binary stance most people take on issues. I think that leads to a lot of misinterpretation, in combination with his absurd stream of consciousness writing and talking.
He wrote a whole damn oped about it but ok dude I don’t think I’m smarter then anyone if I was smart I’d stop commenting on leftist I fighting posts like a sane person.
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I posted it above in another reply.
He wrote an article about it
Definitely a weird take, he doesn't seem to have understood what people mean by the word. But if you replace "toxic masculinity" with "stoicism" in the article it makes sense. This is where we see his grifting side, he wanted to write an article about a hot topic and get it published in the Independent and took a lukewarm take.
That is pretty much my view of him. Well said. Same can be said for a lot of his cancel culture rhetoric. Idk maybe it’s the language barrier, but it’s really weird seeing people here throw the baby out with the bath water for the slightest mistake certain figures make lbut then defending tooth and nail awful takes from other people like Zizek or god forbid Shoe on Head. It’s such a weird dichotomy.
Hell doesn’t he shir on Castro all the time? That alone would get other thinkers or influencers on the eternal shit list on this page
I think of him as a pipeline, he still has interesting things to say about ideology which we sort of take for granted by now. He gives you a bit of communism with a glass of anti-communism to swallow it down.
Problem is that pipeline goes both ways. Plenty of stupidpol weirdos say they got their start with him
There are better pipeline ways.