
Do horrified viewers of the fictional Netflix series ‘Adolescence’ care about real adolescent boys?
Article here. Excerpt:
But ideological versions of feminism are analogous to a particular kind of religion (which has a history that goes back not centuries but millennia). I refer to fundamentalism, which relies on a profoundly dualistic vision of the world: one in which “we” are perpetually victimized and “they” are perpetually “privileged.” All of history is therefore a titanic war between “us” and “them,” one that will end ultimately with “our” victory (reward) and “their” defeat (punishment).
In the case of feminist ideology, women are innately good (the source of all virtue and happiness) and men innately evil (the source of all vice and suffering). I could go on and on, but I have already made my point. This worldview, feminist ideology, has come to dominate every Western country by infiltrating almost every institution (from legislatures and the courts of law to journalism and the court of public opinion, from academic and elite culture to popular culture). Its form of dualism is gynocentrism. And the fallout from pervasive gynocentrism is misandry. This is the environment in which boys grow up, although some of them seek refuge in easily accessible sources of misogyny. As comments on Adolescence (and other phenomena) often observe, misogyny is alive and well. But so is misandry. Standing sadly in the corner, this proverbial “elephant,” is largely unacknowledged even by those who claim to care about boys and men—let alone by those who have ideological or even professional investments in exposing misogyny. The question is not whether misandry, too, exists but why it exists and what dangers it presents not only to boys and men but to society as a whole.
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