Men's Group
In reply to the discussion: How do we advance men's liberation without making women feel like their rights are being infringed? [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Even when we have to grit our teeth and admit, grudgingly, that every word coming out of The Dude's Dooodely mouth is, technically, ideologically unimpeachable, that it has sailed through every Dworkin-MacKinnon-Male Gaze-Patriarchy Blamin'-Heteronormative Gender Bias Challengin' hoop with flying Feministe cred credentials... That if it was something that, say, came from the wise heads of the Smith College Womens Department, we would be out right fucking now nailing it to Frathouse Doors like we were Martyn Luthyr....
The fact that said words came out of a dread dooodely mouth means we must immediately (we must!!) begin a rigorous examination of what, exactly, is wrong, and why do we consider something that has the taint of dude-mouth on it to be reflexively right..
Yes, while we grudgingly agree with the gibberish said dude has spouted back to us, after hearing our own, and we admire his ability to absorb the fonts of our wisdom (except he's a doodely doood so remember to take 'admire' with yon graine of salt) there MUST be something wrong with what he said- and him- and even US! for not more immediately and forcefully challenging the right of a dooodely dude to be anything so closely resembling 'right'.
Remember, dooodely dudes are never more wrong than when they're 'right'. But they're wrong when they're wrong, too. They're just pretty much wrong all the time.