This comes from personal observation, but am I the only one who thinks the emphasis on meritocracy in Hillary-type* feminism positioning the face of misogyny as jealous male “losers” who are also weird and smelly and gross neckbearded NEETs tends to be kinda crypto-ableist when it shows up?
Like, the way in which “meritocracy” fucks men up is a thing I’ve been thinking about more and more over the years; especially in regards to non-NT men (partially due to the way it fucked me up personally in my life), and I can see that same sort of “meritocracy” in that rhetoric, which throws so many non-NT/disabled men under the bus; by treating their issues with self care and social interaction as a part of the “aesthetic” of misogyny, as a part of that whole “lean in” rhetoric of women ascending the corporate ladder in their place.
Plus, there’s the fact that it erases how male “winners” are also very prominently creeps, see also Silicon Valley and Hollywood, and how that sort of meritocracy makes non-NT/disabled women invisible; given that branch o politics doesn’t make a peep about a lot of the issues facing a lot of my female friends who’re NT.
My thoughts on this’ve definitely got a personal element on ‘em, but it still just deeply bothers me to see the way non-NT men are demonized by having their issues associated with an aesthetic of misogyny...
*And yes, I know the election’s long over. But Hillary made herself the face of that brand of politics, so she deserves to keep it. She made her glass cliff, she can lie on it.
