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Quite dismaying to see so many menslib posters scolding this piece and demonstrating the exact problem you are describing.

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Fundamentally the left can't reach out to men. You posted this on the menslib sub, and the responses should tell you why. For many feminists, the price of their allegiance is denegration and demonization of men. If you tried to say that men had something to offer the left-wing movement other than their own self-flagellation and submission, mainstream white feminists would blow a gasket and abandon the party. Part of the price of having the "woman" identity in the party is shaming and excluding the male. It's also tied in with feminine judgment/shaming of low-status men ("incels" and "deplorables") that dovetail naturally with sink-or-swim capitalism; any attempt at economic populism would be fundamentally unpalatable to that part of the base due to the fact that it wouldn't be punishing those loser men enough.

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