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rrneck

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7. It doesn't matter who started the fight.
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 04:26 PM
Feb 2014

It only matters who profits from it.

It's pretty easy to see that the CEO of Fuck You Inc profits. The big winners in the Fuck Them industry are a lot more elusive. How many men make money as MRA pundits? How many women are professional feminists writing books and blogs, attending seminars, and founding chairs in women's studies departments? Gender conflict is a big industry, and all the significant players are in it to "get theirs". How much do you think Naomi Wolf is worth? Whose side do you think she's on now?

Of course Wolf isn't a billionaire. She's little more than a sub contractor for the really big players. The ideology industry still demands the production of something, even if it's just pontificating about microagression. The big money is feeding off the transfer of that ideology and the battle over what gets transmitted. There's nothing like people fighting over the use of your service. Now that's a business model. Don't actually produce anything, just feed off those who do.

Everybody that sells ideology want's "what's theirs". And they depend on expanding market share to get it. So if you can make a pretty good get by living fighting for the right of women to control their own bodies, you can make an even better living expanding the "feminist perspective" to claim every nook and cranny of modern culture. Especially if you can do it by writing books and blogs instead of eating tear gas. Even if it really has nothing to do with it.

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