May 31
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#highblogging#i wanted to watch a video essay that presents a bunch of stuff from 'masculinities' as an area of study#cause that's an area I have not read anything in within my own gender research#(esp since questions about masculinity I feel are adequately addressed in other areas such as transfeminism womanism lesbian studies etc.)#but I figured maybe there are like more in depth things to be found & I could get a little introduction to narrow my search you know?#but I (high) keep finding myself thinking ''ugh we're STILL talking about men? it's like 20 mins in''#& then I just realized what might be the case--#that masculinities is just focused on men. like the whole thing. ahh#trying to analyze hierarchies within masculinity without contextualizing them within the sociopolitical function of (trans)feminization?#it's like trying to theorize about the economy but you will ONLY interpret as far as your own city.#like don't you think the rest of the world might be having an impact on these dynamics in your city? you don't even wanna check??
