If you define patriarchy as the power structure built to service the few men at the top of a social hierarchy, the main historical and contemporaneous group that are the victims of that patriarchy are men without power. Men occupy the supermajority of the layers at the bottom of the power pyramid in societies past and present. Of course most of the humans at the top of hierarchies are men, but that does not characterise all, or even most, men, and there is no solidarity between powerful men and exploited men based on shared sex.
These men have shorter life expectancies, suffer more violence (without committing it), are injured and die more often in the workplace, doing dirtier and more dangerous jobs with graver long term health consequences and with more coercion, suffer more homelessness, destitution, and less access to a social safety net against poverty, are press-ganged into conscript wars and nonconsensually involved in and killed by armed conflicts because of the accident of their sex. Intersectionally, women passively benefitting from not being subject to this gruesome bottom rung of the power hierarchy are on the "side of the oppressors" in this power match-up...
I guess we could talk about so many other people who helped promote the trans ideology, including S. Freud (psychoanalysis) and Havelock Ellis. And I am sure we can trace the ideological lineage back many many centuries into the past.
However, I believe the interesting case of feminism is that it went mainstream, was pushed incessantly through academia and finally into schools and gave the trans ideology a language and a narrative that young people understood and absorbed.
Now feminists seem to be washing their hands off this whole mess and I think many of those arguing against the trans nonsense are falling for the feminist nonsense.
If you define patriarchy as the power structure built to service the few men at the top of a social hierarchy, the main historical and contemporaneous group that are the victims of that patriarchy are men without power. Men occupy the supermajority of the layers at the bottom of the power pyramid in societies past and present. Of course most of the humans at the top of hierarchies are men, but that does not characterise all, or even most, men, and there is no solidarity between powerful men and exploited men based on shared sex.
These men have shorter life expectancies, suffer more violence (without committing it), are injured and die more often in the workplace, doing dirtier and more dangerous jobs with graver long term health consequences and with more coercion, suffer more homelessness, destitution, and less access to a social safety net against poverty, are press-ganged into conscript wars and nonconsensually involved in and killed by armed conflicts because of the accident of their sex. Intersectionally, women passively benefitting from not being subject to this gruesome bottom rung of the power hierarchy are on the "side of the oppressors" in this power match-up...
Whilst feminist thinking has contributed, what about the guys that started off the view that gender is social - Money and Stoller?
I guess we could talk about so many other people who helped promote the trans ideology, including S. Freud (psychoanalysis) and Havelock Ellis. And I am sure we can trace the ideological lineage back many many centuries into the past.
However, I believe the interesting case of feminism is that it went mainstream, was pushed incessantly through academia and finally into schools and gave the trans ideology a language and a narrative that young people understood and absorbed.
Now feminists seem to be washing their hands off this whole mess and I think many of those arguing against the trans nonsense are falling for the feminist nonsense.