Well you have made a lot of ad hominems; called me a lot of names. I am used to that. But can you or Jeff actually refute any of the points I made? I think the answer to that question is clearly no.
First of all I am not confusing personal power with institutional power. That is what feminists do. I know that institutional power panders to whatever the dominant bloc in society happens to be. The dominant bloc in any modern western democracy is women. That is beyond dispute. The dominant consumer bloc in any western country is also women. We spend as a group about 75% of all disposable income. That is why the media folds to women’s lobbies at every turn. The media is after all just a vehicle for advertising.
So where is all this institutional power that men have? You don’t seem to be able to give me an example? Is name calling really all you’ve got?
More to the point; if men hold all the institutional power, and if they are using it to somehow privilege men at the expense of women, then why are women systemically advantaged over men in every area that really matters? Women are advantaged over men in health, law, education, housing and most forms of welfare.
Did the patriarchy drop the ball? Or is it just another feminist delusion?
How do you explain it? Answer; you don’t. You contrive not to see it and instead parrot off a lot of doctrinal ideological rhetoric. Well done. You’re doing feminism correctly.
Your argument amounts to this — The president of Angola is rich and he’s male: Therefore the average Angolan man benefits from his privilege. It is like saying that the Prime Minister of Bangladesh is rich, and she is female, so therefore Bangladeshi women all benefit from that female privilege. It is a tired, infantile argument constantly made by feminism and you would have to have schooled yourself in studious ignorance of how the human species works to even consider making it.
And you really cannot see the monumental stupidity in this line of “reasoning.”
As I said before — Well done. You’re doing feminism correctly.
You claim that I miss the bad things that men do to other men. You are projecting your own ideology onto me. You are making silly assumptions about what I think. I do not miss that at all. I understand that when men are violent or brutish, they usually target other men. I just don’t see how that supports your case if you do actually have one. No evidence of patriarchal misogyny there; in fact quite the opposite.
You finish your post by trying to dismiss anyone who disagrees with feminism as somehow wrong, but you do not say why. I would be happy to school you quite comprehensively on disposable utility, gynocentrism, and hypergamy and the myth of male power.
Of course most of this has more to do with biology than culture or ideology; hypergamy is a perfect example; as is disposable utility from an evolutionary point of view. But you probably didn’t know that.
Don’t worry though. Parroting of silly slogans about patriarchy and male privilege is far better than actually analysing and understanding things objectively. And as I have said before I repeat.
You are doing feminism correctly.