... well, strictly speaking, there's no human being who's been doing anything for the last several millennia, for the simple reason that we don't live that long.
And you know what I mean. :)
Looking back at the post, though, I still think my comments are fair, since they are primarily addressing a culture. The fact is that, while the women's movement is trying to build a cultural image for women that is truer and fairer than the one handed down by the patriarchy, there is no such concerted effort on my side of the fence; there seems, if anything, rather to be a concerted retreat into the old, hopelessly outmoded cultural image of the caveman, the "action hero," the lout. I wish it wasn't so, but I fear it is. I am male, but in many, many ways I don't represent what men think of when they think "male." I don't represent what *I* think of when I think "male," and in most ways that is the result of a deliberate choice. If I see a substantive change for the better, be sure I shall rejoice about it.
Anyway, if I were going to do any gender a disservice, what better than my own?
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Date: 2009-06-12 12:44 pm (UTC)And you know what I mean. :)
Looking back at the post, though, I still think my comments are fair, since they are primarily addressing a culture. The fact is that, while the women's movement is trying to build a cultural image for women that is truer and fairer than the one handed down by the patriarchy, there is no such concerted effort on my side of the fence; there seems, if anything, rather to be a concerted retreat into the old, hopelessly outmoded cultural image of the caveman, the "action hero," the lout. I wish it wasn't so, but I fear it is. I am male, but in many, many ways I don't represent what men think of when they think "male." I don't represent what *I* think of when I think "male," and in most ways that is the result of a deliberate choice. If I see a substantive change for the better, be sure I shall rejoice about it.
Anyway, if I were going to do any gender a disservice, what better than my own?