Honestly, this argument comes across to me as a horrible mangling of different pop-sci concepts to construct a victimology. There’s good evidence of the mechanism by which stress and trauma induce epigenetic changes in organisms. (Selective methylization regulating expression of genes.) There’s some evidence of epigenetic changes due to physiological trauma passed down through germ cells. But it’s a huge leap to ascribe mtDNA damage to psychological experiences.
The mitochondria have a degenerate genome, a tiny amount of DNA with (looking it up) 37 genes to support the processing of energy into ATP to power the cell. It is susceptible to epigenetic changes, which leads pretty directly to a number of metabolic disorders, but I can’t find any evidence that those changes result from life experiences of an animal. The idea that mtDNA has accumulated generations of damage from sexist trauma beggars logic, too, because there’s just not a lot of room to collect damage, and that damage leads to health problems fairly directly. If one got every cell of life from one’s mother, in turn, she got it from her mother, and so on all the way back to the first eukaryotic life. All of those generations of trauma, how are we even still living?
Furthermore, the assertion that “men created the patriarchy” ignores actual history and context. One simply cannot ascribe a singular intent to a class comprising billions of individuals across time and space. At best, one could describe patriarchy as an emergent phenomena of societies and cultures. About half of the individuals in those societies and cultures were women, so you’d have to conclude that women helped create patriarchy, unless you deny their agency or intelligence.
It’s literal science, you are mad because it celebrates women so you want to dismiss it as fake. That’s your misogyny.
Men created and upheld the patriarchy by their own personal every day actions. Including their speech, which, like yours, typically functions to uphold a male centered hierarchy.
Yes, the patriarchy literally denied women’s agency and thoughts and stole their ideas from them. Good job, kiddo, you finally got it. Lol omfg. Yes, that IS what I’m saying - Men ENSLAVED women, and we know this because they kept away rights like landownership and political authority and bodily autonomy. Do you even understand the words you type?
So you want us to blindly spew whatever you say, with no critical thinking? I have seen this before.
That would just lead to a few femcels taking over instead, which isn’t much better. And why would we willingly do that?
I have a better idea: focus on doing something against Trump, who is going to literally enslave you, rather than trying to find how everything random men online say is misoginy.
I can do many things. Trump is famously a misogynist, a gender narcissist, so being a feminism is indeed focusing in and fighting Trump. You aren’t entitled to dictating my behavior or thoughts.
Honestly, this argument comes across to me as a horrible mangling of different pop-sci concepts to construct a victimology. There’s good evidence of the mechanism by which stress and trauma induce epigenetic changes in organisms. (Selective methylization regulating expression of genes.) There’s some evidence of epigenetic changes due to physiological trauma passed down through germ cells. But it’s a huge leap to ascribe mtDNA damage to psychological experiences.
The mitochondria have a degenerate genome, a tiny amount of DNA with (looking it up) 37 genes to support the processing of energy into ATP to power the cell. It is susceptible to epigenetic changes, which leads pretty directly to a number of metabolic disorders, but I can’t find any evidence that those changes result from life experiences of an animal. The idea that mtDNA has accumulated generations of damage from sexist trauma beggars logic, too, because there’s just not a lot of room to collect damage, and that damage leads to health problems fairly directly. If one got every cell of life from one’s mother, in turn, she got it from her mother, and so on all the way back to the first eukaryotic life. All of those generations of trauma, how are we even still living?
Furthermore, the assertion that “men created the patriarchy” ignores actual history and context. One simply cannot ascribe a singular intent to a class comprising billions of individuals across time and space. At best, one could describe patriarchy as an emergent phenomena of societies and cultures. About half of the individuals in those societies and cultures were women, so you’d have to conclude that women helped create patriarchy, unless you deny their agency or intelligence.
It’s literal science, you are mad because it celebrates women so you want to dismiss it as fake. That’s your misogyny.
Men created and upheld the patriarchy by their own personal every day actions. Including their speech, which, like yours, typically functions to uphold a male centered hierarchy.
Yes, the patriarchy literally denied women’s agency and thoughts and stole their ideas from them. Good job, kiddo, you finally got it. Lol omfg. Yes, that IS what I’m saying - Men ENSLAVED women, and we know this because they kept away rights like landownership and political authority and bodily autonomy. Do you even understand the words you type?
So you want us to blindly spew whatever you say, with no critical thinking? I have seen this before.
That would just lead to a few femcels taking over instead, which isn’t much better. And why would we willingly do that?
I have a better idea: focus on doing something against Trump, who is going to literally enslave you, rather than trying to find how everything random men online say is misoginy.
No. Strawman.
It wouldn’t and never has.
I can do many things. Trump is famously a misogynist, a gender narcissist, so being a feminism is indeed focusing in and fighting Trump. You aren’t entitled to dictating my behavior or thoughts.
You insult and accuse me, and many others indirectly. It was inevitable.
Coward.