So there’s this promise made to cis het while men that the world is going to be theirs – they’re going to be millionaires, rock stars, CEOs, whatever. It’s the realization that that’s bullshit that makes a lot of us turn towards leftism – because in order for (some) white men to easily step into these roles, they roles have to be off limits to everyone else.
My father, who was male, and white, and cetera, raised me to understand it as a kind of boys club, where we all welcome each other in, and everyone else is just kinda out of luck.
But that’s not actually true – it’s actually the reverse.
White men aren’t made a promise that’s prohibited to everyone else – white men are lied to. It’s not a broken promise if it was never intended to be kept. White men are the first victims, like the original sin, the first betrayal.
That’s not to say that white men are suffering more than anyone else – it’s very obviously the opposite – and in fact that’s my point, kinda. That lie – it’s the essence of patriarchy, it’s the seed from which it grows – every man is taught that at the core of being a man is the lie. Betrayal, selfishness, emotionlessness towards the suffering you cause – that’s from the lie. It’s like we’re injected with capitalism.