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You can't cite Jung and be expected to be taken seriously in 2025. Type "Animus and Anima" in Google and see how crackpot this all sounds and looks.

Republicans are stuck with their backwards views, and they shut their mind completely to concepts like "patriarchy", which elicits violent, automatic reactions from them. I am yet to see a single guy from the right correctly define what "patriarchy" means to the left, and understand that the leftist projects by no means intends to harm men as a group.

To the contrary, liberating men from having to conform to a specific ideal is extremely freeing. So is not being berated for their height, lack of big muscles or whatever it is one "lacks" compared to the model man.

>I am yet to see a single guy from the right correctly define what "patriarchy" means to the left

What does patriarchy mean to the left?

Or small hands, perhaps?

> So is not being berated for their height, lack of big muscles or whatever it is one "lacks" compared to the model man.

Sounds like you haven't been in the dating pool for a few decades. Go on Tinder and look at what women put in their profiles. Claiming that leftism "liberated" men from being judged by conventional characteristics is delusional. Minimum height requirements are common. Many women also claim to have minimum income requirements.

This stuff has never gone away, of course it has not, why would it? The left never criticizes the behavior of women, only men.

> I am yet to see a single guy from the right correctly define what "patriarchy" means to the left, and understand that the leftist projects by no means intends to harm men as a group.

Your problem is that you're using a theoretical definition that doesn't match reality, and the right use a definition based on observed behavior, so you think they're wrong. But they're not wrong. The sort of people who talk about patriarchy always desire to hurt men as a group, and often do. Citing theory in response should get you laughed at.

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