@saper The whole point of the concept of oppositional sexism is that is one gender is something, the other is the opposite. If you say I am, you imply "They are not", that way, it doesn't matter how you define masculinity or feminity. And actually, it seems that our society is working that way, considering that feminity and masculinity are in fact opposite and therefore exclusive.

@Mawloc Your last sentence is not a logical consequence of the previous once.

I assume "oppositional sexism" is some kind of unproved theory?

@saper It is not a logical consequence because it is not supposed to be so ?
The first one is explaining that what you're saying has no meaning in that context, the next one is saying that the theory on which the first sentence is based on is, to some extent, interesting because it seems true.

Depends on how you define "proved". Moreover, the concept isn't a theory, it's a tool to understand how sexism works, it's a thing you can actually read in Bourdieu's book (for instance). Maybe not "proved", but it doesn't really need to be.

@saper The idea of such a tool is not to be true, nor proved, the idea is that it allows you to understand some phenomenon you can actually see. If it does, and that nothing is proving the opposite, thereofre it is considered as true. The whole idea of science.

@Mawloc At least there needs to be a chain of consistent statements. I'll assume 500 chars is not enough to explain it.

@saper Obviously, and it's a funny because oppositional sexism does have those statements. Indeed, it will need you to read Bourdieu's "La domination masculine" and Julia Serano's "Whipping Girl", but it seems that you have plenty of time so I believe you will !
It might require some knowledge in sociology as well, but I'm sure you have it !
These are good books, don't hesitate !

Oh, and because it seems kind of relevant here, I'm using a quotation I saw lately (well, I don't really have it, so I'm just giving the meaning) : if their masculinity is threatened by feminism or transidentity, it meens that their concept of masculinity is by definition incompatible with transidentity or feminism, therefore, that their concept of masculinity is by definition transphobic and sexist

@Mawloc yay #whippinggirl - to read that book was super important for me!

@distelfliege I can understand why, that's the reason why I am trying to share some part with the people here ! ^^