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What are some feminist texts that you would recommend to men who are resistant to the idea of feminism?
(Please note that I am not the target audience for this - I've read a lot of feminism and am not at all resistant to it - and please don't tell me the question is problematic)
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Corn Woman 🌽
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Hard, because there are somewhere between 15 and 1000 flavors of feminism, which do not all agree on fundamentals or prescriptions, but only really share... branding, I guess.
So any accessible text is either controversial (because groups disagree on fundamentals) or vacuous.
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David R. MacIver
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I think there's a lot of overlap even between the ones that contradict eachother, but yeah that's true. I suppose I'm particularly interested in intersectional queer (and especialyl trans-inclusionary) friendly feminism, but I'll accept all comers if it teaches something useful.
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NotRivalVoices
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This one was useful for me the-orbit.net/brutereason/
rationalist-ish/mental-health-ish entry point
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NotRivalVoices
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Also not what you asked but seeing guys catcall girls really obnoxiously plus my gf at the time saying it is a frequent occurrence and replying with "they don't do it when you're there" as to why i never saw it blew my fucking mind
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David R. MacIver
@DRMacIver
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I actually have no idea who you mean
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David R. MacIver
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For example I think bell hooks is reliably pretty good in this space. I've not yet read enough of her work (currently only "All About Love", and "Feminism is for Everyone". I've got "The Will to Change" sitting on my shelves but not got around to it yet)
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Danny Kodicek
@DannyKodicek
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The first thing I read that really made me think about the subject was this piece by Douglas Hofstadter. I guess it's a bit typical that it should be by a man, but Hofstadter was basically my idol. (CW for satirical but uncomfortable racism) cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/r…
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David R. MacIver
@DRMacIver
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Hmm yeah I've read this before and agree it's good.
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Meline Sieber
@MelineSieber
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Maybe Kate Manne, "Down Girl"
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David R. MacIver
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I really should get around to reading that. It's been on my shelves for a while but I keep prioritising other books ahead of it.
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