Mastodawn

https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/epstein-files-patriarchy

Celeste Davis points to what we don't want to talk about as we talk about Epstein and the Epstein Class:

"Why aren’t we talking about why so many men when given power continually choose to use that power to rape women?

WHY AREN’T WE TALKING ABOUT THAT?! ...

Entitlement, gender inequality and masculine discrepancy stress have all been correlated with rape."

#Epstein #EpsteinClass #men #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #rape
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There is one word that explains how so many men can be in the Epstein files. So why is no one saying it?

We talk endlessly about the factors that make rape easier, but never about the factors that cause rape in the first place.

Matriarchal Blessing

"If only we had a name for this…

And what is this system called that perpetuates gender inequality, and dominance and entitlement among men?

Patriarchy.

The word for that system is called patriarchy."

#Epstein #EpsteinClass #men #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #rape
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https://katemanne.substack.com/p/the-madonna-whore-complex-is-fracturing

"The domination is the point, along with the cruelty.

We have so very far to go before women are treated in accordance with a third logic that Kant famously identified—not fancy price, nor market price, but the logic of dignity, where our humanity as a rational subject with autonomy is honored."

~ Kate Manne

#Epstein #EpsteinClass #men #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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The Madonna-Whore Complex is Fracturing

On a case of digital rape in Germany

More to Hate

"In the current moment, in the current world, I do not think we are making progress on this issue. In some moods, on some days, I suspect we are going backwards."

#Epstein #EpsteinClass #men #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱19h ago

Good Goddess, this was being done by her *husband*?! What in the name of Fuck?

Darwin Woodka 17h ago

@bytebro @wdlindsy

Why are men so surprised all the time that other men are assholes?

Robert H 19h ago

I don't want to sound like a member of the Anti-Saloon League, but I'm not sure that the U.S. is better off with gambling on the phone, legal weed, and no more regulations on automobile mileage.

@Stinson_108 I share your reservations — especially as I look at the lives of some of my own nephews.

> Nearly half of men believe they could land a passenger jet with zero training.

Hahaha.

They should try once in a realistic flight simulator to only land a small, single engine propeller plane.

It's an eye-opener.

What I learn from this (and what is the fundamental underlying problem) that a lot of people (likely most of them male) believe they can do a lot of things they have zero experience with.

Maybe it's the Dunning-Kruger effect hard at work.

Plus, also maybe, the peculiar aspect of male socialization by which you ground your self esteem and perceived value for others on what you can do.

Which now surprisingly lead me to the question: Perhaps this particular facet is actually an effect of an utilitarian capitalist system which couples value with skills and performance.

@glitzersachen Studies show that this phenomenon definitely correlates to male gender, and doesn't involve a lot of other people. These studies suggest that something about how men are shaped, tutored, brought up, inducted into the world, evidently imparts an amazing sense of blinding entitlement.

I perhaps translated not quite right from my native language. What I meant to say:

The male self image is centered around "what I am able to do". My hypothesis: This (while it has largely become a goal in itself) might have its root in the "traditional" role as breadwinner for the family. Their worth for their family ("what I can give") stems from what they are able to do / achieve.

That's all no justification. Especially not for lying to yourself about your abilities.

And we (as a society, but especially mal subculture) should have abandoned this way of thinking ("breadwinner") long ago, not only because of #patriarchy.

But I am looking for systemic root causes beyond ---let me employ a bit a of hyperbole (my apologies for this already) --- beyond "they're male, so mentally impaired, no other explanation needed".

Which seems where a substantial fraction of discussions on these type of problems seem to end up on social media.

As an accurate statement of symptoms it's enough, I agree. For me though, then pretty soon comes the question of the root causes.

It make a difference, if we think the current state of affairs is (a) biologically unavoidable, (b) a male sub-cultural problem (c) a larger system problem that leaves this problem in male subculture, or (d) something else.

> blinding entitlement.

In this context --- overestimating one's abilities --- I'd also question the use of the term "entitlement". Are they entitled to land a passenger plane? Doesn't sound like the right way to phrase this.

I suggest we have two different phenomena here: Entitlement (another topic) and this totally overestimating their skills and abilities.

Which both stem from how males are socialized in their male sub-culture, but might have a different root cause (a culture is never based on just one tenet and a lot of them are implied).

Of course, it CAN all be subsumed unter "it's those males again", but this doesn't help much towards understanding it. If one is still in the phase of establishing that the status quo is like it is, yes, then not more is needed.

@glitzersachen That's the point, though, isn't it? You ask, "Are they entitled to land a plane?"

Obviously not.

But the problem is, many men do not even see that as a problem!

@glitzersachen I think the point is that these behavior patterns are not rooted in biology but in cultural formation. They can therefore be changed. But resistance to changing these patterns is fierce around the world, and one key form the resistance takes is to claim that they are rooted in biology and are therefore immutable.