Elle Beau ❇︎
1 min readJun 16, 2023

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Feminism is in truth, the only major movement out there that recognizes that disenfranchised men are not in the same boat as powerful men. Patriarchy is at its core a dominance based hierarchy, and the powerful men have hoodwinked less powerful men into serving their needs by telling them they can at least control and be superior to women. It's a neat trick, that keeps the focus misdirected.

Time for the average guy to wake up to that and stop upholding this social system because he's imagining that someday he'll get his chance to be one of those elites. We absolutely need a new, more egalitarian social system where stratifications based on artificial things like race and gender are not upheld in order to keep the "traditional" pecking order in place. But as we can see, a lot of whites and most men aren't really interested in that, because they see it as a loss for themselves (a loss of unearned privilege) and rather than confronting those feelings and the fears they elicit, they go join the Proud Boys or hang around in the manosphere and dream about the day when women (and other non-white men) finally remember their "place" again. Not all whites, not all men, but enough to make it an uphill battle to have hierarchies of merit and not those of traditional power upheld by intimidation.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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