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Incels, Misogyny, and Castration

Why Theory

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Is There a Utility in Naming?

I think that there is a utility in naming and I'm going to purposely use this word erecting a figure of like cartoonish misogyny. To shame cartoon misogynist counts as feminism perhaps. And so if what instead you're doing is you are like holding up a cartoon version of misogyny as this thing that you are clearly against, then it does allow you to not deal with the capitalist part, with the racist part or anything else. So okay. It's a way of just pushing it under the carpet altogether the issue. That's a mistake. But I want to this virtue signaling I find interesting because in a way I don't think it's psychically strong enough though, right? Like

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