• woodenghost [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    29 days ago

    Even if everyone was suddenly turned gay, having grown up in a patriarchal society might still leave many cis men unable to express their emotions, form meaningful connections and do anything effective about their loneliness.

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      29 days ago

      yes, at first and for a long time while the perceived need for machismo gradually fades away.

      hetero-normative social expectations & toxic masculinity are the biggest sources of fuel for male loneliness and the remaining parts can become manageable in a gay dominated world as it becomes clearer and clearer that there will be fewer and fewer people to exploit in search of the capitalist profit motive; thus slowly eliminating the 3rd largest fuel source for loneliness.

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        29 days ago

        yes, at first and for a long time while the perceived need for machismo gradually fades away.

        I don’t think it necessarily would fade away in those circumstances. You can have gay patriarchy. It’d be different than hetero patriarchy, but patriarchy is patriarchy.

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          29 days ago

          very true, but i’m betting that it’s not going to take the same toxic form that it has now.

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          29 days ago

          Yes, I guess the economic reasons for patriarchy would still be there. Splitting productive wage labor from unpaid labor that reproduces the ability to work would still be helpful to capital.