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Anti-245 posted...

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Anti-245 posted...

Masculinity is an ideology of patriarchal societies that generally justifies the advantages that men have over non-men systemically. It maintains its power through constant propaganda throughout the society similarly, but not exactly, to whiteness with race.

masculinity is definitely more conceptual than ideological: we see things in the world and classify them as being masculine or non-masculine. concepts make sense of experiences; at some level, ideology is supposed to have a degree of predictive power, and masculinity doesn't afford that. i would agree that you can say slogans like "if you work hard, you can make it" are masculine at some level, but there are more robust ideologies that already exist and incorporate the logic used in the example, so you don't need to used the word masculinity to explain things like that at an ideological level.

What term would you use?

i was actually just thinking about what i said, and i did make a mistake. concepts have predictive power to the extent that the concept of a square allows us to predict that a square has four sides, etc. so in that way masculinity could be an ideology, i guess. ideology is, roughly, a system of concepts that point to hypothetical imperatives.

so, i guess i actually agree with you. can you point to a foundation of masculinity?
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