People's understanding of patriarchy and feminism needs to be informed by how (cis) male peer groups are structured by misogyny is well, how (cis) male homosociality often hinges on purging, punishing and consuming the feminine. This is very much related to how they treat women and queer people.

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The way men haze each other in frats and militaries, the way they only claim femininity and emotionality in contexts that mock both, the way they subject each other to violence and penetration is not divorced from patriarchy just because there are no women present---though sometimes there are.

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This, this, this.

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That's the real weight of his counter-punch: not that Tommy is a bigot (though he kind of is), but that Tommy won't agree to play by the same set of rules he demands El-Sayed play by. Who's the outlier here?

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And attack he does, brilliantly. I thought the bit about the Constitution was great, not because it's a secular counterweight to Christian chauvinism, but because El-Sayed framed it perfectly as a neutral operating system that Americans buy into as the rules of the game.

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