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"DAE women bad?" It's like I travelled back in time to early 2010s Reddit or something.
Why? Any good Marxist should understand the fundamental divide is between capital/human beings and labor/human doings- that whole "workers of the world, unite" thing doesn't ring any bells? Yeah, being one sex or the other tends to overwhelmingly bucket one in one or the other group for evolutionary reasons, but not always- there's plenty of (by this definition) room for transgender activity and group membership is not set in stone. Technology will soon arrive to obsolete what little productive role capital has in the same way technology obsoleted labor 100 years ago, and there will likely be a renegotiation between the sexes at that time, so there's very little novel observation to make about inter-sexual relations other than watching the system evolve from those initial conditions.
And Eve was the first to eat the fruit. You were raised Catholic, so you should know that's, uh, a low-hanging fruit. Not a new observation.
No, I'd say the capital gender understands the social framework perfectly fine. If the society has managed to defeat every enemy capital can (and the West absolutely has, at least for now) be as corrupt as it likes; it doesn't need to work or improve anything because there are no barbarians to come and lead them away in chains as a punishment for their waste of resources, and that's just the way it is.
Yes, 1984 should have taught you this is what the capital gender brings about when it has no external opposition. As described, we also observe the emergence of the Junior Anti-Sex League as labor declines in social power; while man/woman are a proxy for labor/capital, that proxy isn't useless to capital, and now you know why progressive women have the internal politics that they do (and also why they're fine with encouraging anything but bog-standard heterosexuality).
Technology is capital, it's the most central possible example of capital.
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That's some level of wishful thinking, really.
No, technology is arriving that's going to make labor wholly irrelevant by replacing it with 'service fees' for AI, and capital completely dominant.
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Yours is a good post.
But probably my message and what I wanted to say was not so clear; I am not condemning the logic behind the capital gender reasoning, because it is perfectly fine.
I offer a helpful? refinement that should cut down on the previous polemic. Most of the women I know don't act like what "their gender" should predict from a naive analysis (true for some of the men I know, too), and what someone's gender [in the capital/labor sense] is tends to be a collision of a bunch of personality traits in the same way a discrete electron orbiting an atom is more properly described as a probability density, so I just figured I'd go one level deeper and it seems to work.
Or maybe I'm just making excuses. Take progressive thought to its logical conclusions controlling for expressions of anti-social intent and action being different between the genders, remember that the female tendency to do nothing and hide under the bed from any risk whatsoever is just as destructive and deadly as anything males get up to, add a generous helping of "your rules, fairly", and you'll get most of the way to a workable argument. You're still not going to convince a womanist because "man bad woman good" is an intractable [bad] faith argument, but you already know that anyway.
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