thoughts about finding common ground with blue collar men and feminism

[Regrell]

10. Well the alternative is more violence.

The most powerful behavioral control mechanism is shaming and fear of exile. This has been the case since time immemorial, where your group turning its back on you was quite literally a death sentence. Now we have the State to enact violence on our behalf...and against us.

Look, forget it. Obviously some people are trying to read something into my thread that isn't there. I'm not excusing anything, I'm trying to point out the larger dangers that threaten anyone who is struggling to scratch a living in a culture and economy hell-bent on reducing us all, mind, body, and spirit...to replaceable cogs left to scrabble over increasingly sparse resources while the uber wealthy ride it out in military grade luxury bunkers with militarized police to protect them.

Maybe not today, maybe not 20 years...but we can start to see it happening. Fuck the Eliot Rogers of the world, but maybe try and talk to the guy who lost his job at the coal mine.