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“So, I think that the secret trick of this category of toxic masculinity is to promote a very precise — I’m almost tempted to say — masculine cliché of women: Women like dialogue, they are friendly, non-violent, and so on, and so on,” he said. “What is so fashionable today is to construct a certain image of femininity, which is an ideological construct, as you know, more gentle dialogical, interactive — so on, so on — which fits perfectly today’s global capitalism.”
In signature fashion, Žižek offered a provocative example of (what he said is “almost”) toxic masculine behavior being used productively: Greta Thunberg’s speech to the United Nations about climate change.
“She’s not this caricatural woman,” he said. “You know, like, ‘Solve, let’s have a dialog.’ — ‘No! Fuck you! What dialogue? Act!’ And so on, you know? That’s the women I like!”
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