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I feel like there's this rhetoric that if a man doesn't make feminism his highest priority he's automatically toxic. You can be a good man, and still treat women like shit. Obviously you should work on it if you do, but my points are that a) men aren't perfect, and b) manhood doesn't revolve around womanhood.
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“I feel like there's this rhetoric that if a man doesn't make feminism his highest priority he's automatically toxic.”
“You can be a good man, and still treat women like shit.”
“Obviously you should work on it if you do,”
Work On It. Not like there’s a supreme problem if you are a toxic fucking male who treats women like shit. Not as if you ARE the problem.
“but my points are that a) men aren't perfect,”
“and b) manhood doesn't revolve around womanhood”
You can be a genius and a misogynist at the same time, like Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Rousseau; the two conditions don't cancel each other out.
But being a "good" man is a measure of how you personally treat your fellow human beings. If you hate half of them, then sorry, you fail.
And I would imagine most men don't appreciate your efforts to make them all look like douchebags.
I feel like there's this rhetoric that if a man doesn't make feminism his highest priority he's automatically toxic.
I dunno, maybe this a just matter of semantics, but while I do consider myself a feminist, I don’t think I “make feminism my highest priority”, I try to treat people equally regardless of their sex or gender or whatever.
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