I just read this (feminist progressive) article which is currently linked from the Chateau:
Sex Ed That Turns Boys into Men
No need to read it, this sentence out of the article sums up what it is about:
It got me thinking into why deconstruction has such an appeal to progressives. One part of it is surely:
A fourth could be:
All these I would classify as "benevolent", because even though progressives are ultimately damaging those boys, in their mind, they mean well. It is just that they don't understand how much evil is being done in the name of good.
This reason could be considered "neutral":
So maybe the boys he uses the program on seem are a substitute for himself?
I think the 8 reasons might just be in the order of their frequency of occurence:
Sex Ed That Turns Boys into Men
No need to read it, this sentence out of the article sums up what it is about:
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Encourage boys to consider everything they’ve been taught about what it means to be a man, deconstruct it, and then think about how to become a good one.
It got me thinking into why deconstruction has such an appeal to progressives. One part of it is surely:
- Improving
- after you have deconstructed something, you need to build it up again
- When building it up again, you can build it according to what you believe is right and good
- Helping
- when something is damaged, that's an opportunity to be the good, helping person (the Helper Syndrome)
- (if nothing is damaged, you will need to damage something)
- Learning
- as you watch something come undone, you get to understand it better
A fourth could be:
- Prevention
- boys will turn into men at some point, and most men are mysoginists (monsters)
- the mysoginists (monsters) need to be "killed" (not literally, but in the sense of their masculinity being taken away from them) when they are young, before they become too strong
All these I would classify as "benevolent", because even though progressives are ultimately damaging those boys, in their mind, they mean well. It is just that they don't understand how much evil is being done in the name of good.
This reason could be considered "neutral":
- feeling in control
- Feeling powerless is terrible - I want to feel in control of my world
- If I can control something (boys and their thoughts), I don't feel powerless
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he’d been a 14-year-old boy — confused, eager for information, and wishing he’d had a mentor-type program
So maybe the boys he uses the program on seem are a substitute for himself?
- correcting one's own biography
- when you feel something went wrong, but the opportunity (in this case adolescence) has passed, it can become a hangup / chip on the shoulder
- working with adolescents on the same situation that generated one's own personal hangup can feel like being that boy again and doing something different
- Feeling powerless is terrible - I want to feel in control of my world
- If I can control something (boys and their thoughts), I don't feel powerless
- Envy
- "If I can't have it, nobody should"
- When you are aware that you cannot have something that others do (e.g. a healthy sexuality)...
- ...you might come to the conclusion that this feeling of shortcoming will subside if nobody has it (a healthy sexuality)
- Hate
- I hate masculinity (or men / the patriarchy)
- I will destroy it in any form I can find it (and get away with it)
I think the 8 reasons might just be in the order of their frequency of occurence:
- improving
- helping
- learning
- preventing
- correcting one's own biography
- feeling in control
- envy
- hate
- Can you think of other (psychological) reasons for this behaviour - the appeal of deconstructing boys?
- What do you think of the order of frequency - which ones are the major motivational causes, which are minor?