these people expect me to take “racialized women being masculinized is an example of androphobia” seriously as an argument
this one infuriates me because this has been written about in feminism by Black feminists! extensively! this explicit function of patriarchy!
i had a bad day and was thinking I might’ve been too harsh, but after sleeping on it I remain resolute: using this line of argumentation tells me you are racist and misogynist and that you do not care about women’s words and experiences except insofar as you can use them to benefit yourself
the Black and brown and queer and working-class and disabled women who this masculinization was done to identified it as a function of patriarchy, but a white mra from one of upstate New York’s woker sundown towns says it’s bc the patriarchy hates men, so who’s to say
