I think trump, Jordan Peterson and company are the last throes of the patriarchy. It's the thesis, feminism the antithesis, and there will be a synthesis between the two. The whole #metoo movement was a jab at the patriarchy mostly, and for good reason. The pendulum is swinging hard. It disheartens me to see the leading north American scholar is Jordan Peterson who thinks birthcontrol is ruining western civilization, who doesn't understand Jung or Nietzsche very well, but has a scholarly trumpian view that's buttoned up and white chokered a thing. Maleness as a power structure, along with whiteness as a power structure need to go for progress. Our country was founded on universal principles that kicked a king out, meaning hereditary meant nothing.
Kate Mann wrote a great work called Down Girl The Logic of Misogyny, that shows the system of how mean treat women toxically, treat the ones that obey nicely, but the great ones who don't fit their wanted stereotype like Hillary Clinton, they shame, her, demean her, put her through the system.
In a just world, men would have always been conscientious enough to notrepress people of women and people of color, but hopefully history is progressive, and this "woke" movement will swing and crush the white male patrirchy for something more inclusive. In my field, philosophy, i see more and more women who shed new light on topics. Men try to essentialize women, like jordan peterson, and that already tries to group them as not diverse and as a type. He needs to go.
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