Even this isn't entirely correct. They still want men to have desires for them, because that gives them something to exploit. They just want compliant followers that will accept that women are their superiors. Everything they say about masculinity is purely to lead to this outcome.
allow for more individualism or healthy collectivism.
Women can't afford for men to check out of society, it only functions based off our willingness to work hard for a society that hates us and wishes we were all killed.
As for a positive collective male identity, they don't want to allow that in case it becomes a political bloc. This is why so many pieces by female authors push division by race, wealth and age, among others. Their strength is in their in-group bias, that women as a class will usually band together on major issues. They cannot afford men doing the same thing so they try everything to divide them.
self-flagellate
I often claim feminists are sadistic, and I think this is a sort of proof of that. It's not enough for you to follow what they want, you have to do that and hate yourself, be constantly reminded that you will never, ever be as good as a woman. That your existence is a curse and your original sin can never be atoned for.
Even this isn't entirely correct. They still want men to have desires for them, because that gives them something to exploit. They just want compliant followers that will accept that women are their superiors. Everything they say about masculinity is purely to lead to this outcome.
Women can't afford for men to check out of society, it only functions based off our willingness to work hard for a society that hates us and wishes we were all killed.
As for a positive collective male identity, they don't want to allow that in case it becomes a political bloc. This is why so many pieces by female authors push division by race, wealth and age, among others. Their strength is in their in-group bias, that women as a class will usually band together on major issues. They cannot afford men doing the same thing so they try everything to divide them.
I often claim feminists are sadistic, and I think this is a sort of proof of that. It's not enough for you to follow what they want, you have to do that and hate yourself, be constantly reminded that you will never, ever be as good as a woman. That your existence is a curse and your original sin can never be atoned for.