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[–] clark@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Rampant sexism

Does this indicate fascism is largely a male thing? Or have female fascists oppressed men as well?

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 17 points 1 year ago

Fascism is greatly concerned with overt displays of power, "honor," physical strength as a core value instead of reason or integrity, that kind of thing.

That's not fully incompatible with femaleness, but it does tend to work out in practice as a male-dominated system that features subjugation of women, of a piece with its subjugation of anything else that's vulnerable in any way.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago

Fascists try to enforce what they view as "natural" hierarchies. The obvious one is that their race is superior to the other races, but also that the male role is strength and leadership while the female role is servitude and homemaking. Because of this, female fascists tend to go all in on the racial and class based hierarchies, since that pushes poor and minority women under them. Thats why you get women such as Mary Sophia Allen who was a hard core suffragette turned fascist in the UK. When she saw she wouldn't get equal rights as men, she pivoted to trying to crush Indian and African women in the UK.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it'd be fair to say it's typically male. That doesn't mean women don't Embrace fascism though.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The (usually white) female version of an Uncle Tom.