cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1468096
“Hawley typically cites Big Tech, Hollywood and academia as the unholy trinity of elites that has laid masculinity to waste. He likes to quote the titles of old feminist essays from obscure journals to imply that all college professors and all Democratic politicians hate men. But even as he blames this ruling-class syndicate for depriving men of their ancient reason for being, his own fears sync with ruling-class fears from time immemorial. Elite men are anxious that their wives, workers and children will gain financial and intellectual independence, take their property and flee. And then the unkindest cut: Someone new — a lowly outsider who has been waiting in the wings — will take their place at the top of the social order.”
If supposed strong men are so weak minded and frail as to always jump and shout when even just a little bit of their authority is challenged … they never had that much power to begin with.
Their power is not based on their own strength and masculinity, it’s based on the willingness of the weak to allow this dynamic.