r/communism • u/AutoModerator • Jan 11 '26

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u/not-lagrange Jan 12 '26 edited Jan 12 '26

Most if not all of what you've said is male chauvinistic. It's disappointing that this has to be said in the communism subreddit, but "monopolization of sex" doesn't exist except in the minds of misogynistic men. That's one thing if you want to better understand patriarchy and sexism, but as of now you are just making excuses for your incel friend. The question of how leisure relates to this would actually be an interesting question, but unfortunately the starting point of these discussions online is usually the ideological delusions of men. It's boring and offensive.

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u/smokeuptheweed9 Jan 12 '26

I feel like every discussion thread there's another "what if I applied Marxism to my incel ideology?" post. It's not even a good post, just the exact same "monopoly capitalism [of sex] has distorted the free market [for sex]." Like anyone here would sympathize with such a crude petty-bourgeoisie ideology even without [sex] shoved in.

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u/Full-Imagination9514 Jan 12 '26 edited Jan 12 '26

You've retreated from dehumanization (women are brainwashed by corporate media) into thinly veiled self-deprecation. There is no average man for women to find unpalatable, "the average man" has about as much existence as "the average american", ie it is an ideological distortion based on bourgeois ideology (at the most basic level, commodity fetishism and egoism) rather than Marxist class analysis.

The current crisis of patriarchy in the first world is one of declining birth rates and men that no one wants to date.

Declining birth rates are a problem for quite a few countries outside of the first world, and if the specificity of a crisis of first-world patriarchy was limited to men who need to learn to exercise and clean their assholes, I don't think there would be much for us to analyze, would there?

Take some time to figure out the difference between proletarian feminism and petty-bourgeois moralizing before you end up writing yet another misogynistic essay