Atlantic: What Porn Did to American Culture
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I've said it before on this topic, but it's more complicated than that. The argument makes no sense, if you consider the premise. And not saying you're saying this verbatim or anything, or believe it, but it's often something along the lines of what people mean.
Premise: Women are basically child-like psychopaths who have no agency or accountability...but also it's their fault they're out of control. If women are incapable of keeping themselves in check, men clearly share some of the blame for letting themselves be manipulated into letting women get so out of control in the first place.
As always on sex relations issues, it's a give and take. Women and men are different, and as such they each share some blame and responsibility for the current state of things. Men and women have both utterly failed to fulfill their roles.
The issue with that is we're so many decades/centuries off that the men you could blame are long gone. Modern men have modern women to deal with, a trillion dollar propaganda campaign to break them, and if that's not enough, the most powerful and massive governments the world has ever seen.
Our generation of men has never known what keeping women in check even means. Most couldn't even conceptualize it out of fear of being called a mushogynist.
The frustrating thing is that the "big conservative" types are still strongly influenced by feminism so that they essentially hold both the "women are completely capable" view AND the "men are to blame for how women act" view.