GC Theory - Lecture 5

Adam Kostakis has posted Gynocentrism Lecture 5:

"Among the worst mistakes that freedom-loving people can make is to stereotype feminists as a small, motley crew of angry lesbians who have long since ceased to be relevant. Take note: this stereotype helps them. . . .I must repeat myself: this stereotype helps them. . . .Let that sink in for a moment. Every time you have belittled feminists as a bunch of cranky old hags that nobody takes seriously, you have helped to obscure their program and indeed, their very existence as a form of organized power. Belittle them, you must - but do so in a way which exposes, not obscures! For feminism is far from being a relic of the past. The feminist movement is taken very seriously indeed by those with the power to enforce its core aims . . ."

You know, it's funny. Even the feminists themselves kvetch perennially about the kind of stereotyping that Adam Kostakis describes here. Even they -- especially the young, naive third-wave types like Feministgal -- think that everybody is stereotyping feminists as hairy-legged lesbians. But that is not true. What IS true, is that only SOME people stereotype feminists in this way. But I know for a fact that the smart, cutting-edge MRAs do nothing of the kind. They make it their business to know their enemy, and believe me . . . they do!

No, our enemy is in fact largely invisible -- and we damn well know this! So feminists, stop speaking my mind for me, because you do not know what I am thinking. Do not stereotype me as a stereotyper! I know you FAR too well to stereotype you. Gads, you must think we're all stupid, or something! In fact, we know you better than you know us -- and better than you know yourselves. Whether you like it or not.

As I made clear to Feministgal somewhere on her blog, feminism as a sociopolitical organism could never have advanced far at all if most feminists really did resemble the hairylegged hellion personna. If that were so, then they would be far too easy to spot from a distance, and they could never sneak up on anybody in order to get all those anti-male laws passed, or worm their way into HR departments in order to establish "pink-listing" systems, or provide sufficiently attractive bait to young males whom they wish to "set up" for some type of false accusation.

No, I do not stereotype feminists. Or at least, not in the classic hairy lesbian way. I DO stereotype them in more subtle ways, however, based upon the core commonalities which operate within feminism as a whole. But it is debatable whether you could actually call what I do "stereotyping". Stereotyping is really a form of sampling and averaging -- which is why it gets things wrong so often. But I would insist that there is no such thing as "stereotyping" triangles, for example, as three-sided geometerical figures. I say that because there is no possibility of being wrong about such a thing.

But yes, I do "stereotype" feminists as participants in feminism -- for I cannot choose to believe that a feminist is a non-participant in feminism any more than I can choose to believe that a triangle is not three-sided.

This in its turn derives from an anterior "stereotypification": namely, that I "stereotype" feminism itself according to principles that are, once again, as rigorous as the generalization that a triangle is three-sided.

But Adam is right; the hairy lezbo stereotype DOES help feminism, because it serves as cover or camouflage. Or, if you will, as a decoy. If the naive feminists were smart, they would realize this and encourage it! And should we non-feminist insurgents pretend to fall for it, and fool the feminists into thinking that we are just as dumb as they think we are?

But go now to enjoy the latest from Gynocentrism Theory:


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