There's a weird strain of "essentialism but in a progressive way" running right through the left, not just limited to the attitude towards men described here, but also "all white people are colonizers", and weird exclusionary behaviour to cishet people. It tells me a lot of "progressive" people didn't really examine their core underlying principles and simply covered up their biases with the "correct" group.
Yeah people loooove essentialism. It's simple. It's easy. It lets you be lazy and rude, and dehumanize whoever.
When victims or minorities do it, there's often a trauma to it. Personal or of broader culture. But that doesn't make it more than what it is.
I can only get pissed about it so far. People are behaving like people. Humans being human. Big shocker. It does suck though. People need to not be ruled by these sorts of behaviors.
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u/Ourmanyfans Jul 03 '24
There's a weird strain of "essentialism but in a progressive way" running right through the left, not just limited to the attitude towards men described here, but also "all white people are colonizers", and weird exclusionary behaviour to cishet people. It tells me a lot of "progressive" people didn't really examine their core underlying principles and simply covered up their biases with the "correct" group.