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 (DIR) Post #B0JBUoBr0zny1K1f3A by carrideen@c18.masto.host
       2025-11-16T16:09:25Z
       
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       I woke up to that disgusting Vaseline-lensed NYT essay about how the world of Epstein was a long-ago different time when male power bonds emerged according to the ancient affective paradigms of NYC, lost in the mist of #metoo and I am desperate to know why no one ever thinks to look at the tremendous work on those affective paradigms written by those who could see them clearly at the time. Eve Sedgwick's Between Men (1985) will do nicely. She was declared dangerous for describing male affect:
       
 (DIR) Post #B0JBV4QGfAqEMetOjo by carrideen@c18.masto.host
       2025-11-16T16:13:39Z
       
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       She argues (beautifully, hilariously, enragedly) that patriarchy replicates itself by recruiting men at all levels of socioeconomic/political power to find themselves in brotherhood and solidarity through ritual, mutual humiliation of others (women, children, etc.). Even gay men can be invited into these emotional bonds, as willing participants, or they can become victims. Her great insight, I think, is that patriarchy is material but also emotional--a misty glorious past that is still with us.