Men's Liberation
This community is first and foremost a feminist community for men and masc people, but it is also a place to talk about men’s issues with a particular focus on intersectionality.
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Recommended Reading
- The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, And Love by bell hooks
- Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements by Michael Messner
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Russian mentality. The ultimate subjects, taking pride in enduring whatever the fuck the government kills them for next.
That's not Russian mentality at all. It's more that people don't believe that they can change things anyway - but Russians are in general not to much into their government, I would say quite the opposite of ultimate subjects.
Thats text book russian mentality: part of why nothing changes over there is because the people are willing to endure terrible living conditions, governments sending them into the meat grinder, corruption, virtually anything wrong, out of a weird mix of stubborn pride and stoic resignation. Perfect subjects: hardy, accepting, nationalistic.
Have you ever been to russia? The mentality is more of a general not giving a shit and nothing really matters. People don't like or trust the state in general (some love it in stockholm syndrome kind of way) and laws are more like an inconvenience. The corruption is deep ingrained into society and does not just come from the government. Funny thing if, you read Leskov it appears it's been like this since before the revolution almost 200 years ago.