Post by Eugene 2.0 on Jun 13, 2021 19:30:05 GMT
Firstly, I want to admit that there are constantly using misconception of the term 'antimachism'. In some of the resources I've met this word being confused with 'antimasculinity', and it is not correct. I guess there is a good point to try to define these terms along with trying to answer on some important things about as the feminism so the feminists.
Unlike 'masculinity' the term 'machismo' represents some rough, ignorant, rude, gross, etc mostly teenagers, and mostly males behaviour. Because of a barbaric and destructive behaviour, that isn't rare among male youths, the term 'machismo' in different languages got its realizations. And not only in terms: Hamlet in Shakespeare's, Dorian Grey in Wild's, Drunken Samurai in Japan legends (filmed by Kurosawa), a cossack Levko and his friends in Gogol's, and Stavrogin with his companions in Dostoyevsky's - all of them and more are the characters which represent this concept of machismo: they demonstrate the rough style and achieved the realization of that symbol.
As I said, 'machismo' isn't only about the males; females might show such a style of behaviour. Mostly we see such characters as either very destructive (Alraune of Hanns Heinz Ewers; "Mary" in Silent Hill 2 by Silent Team), or more reliable and unstable (The Snow Queen in "The Snow Queen" by H. Andersen).
The most outraged and cruel image of those who suffer machismo are pupils in problematic schools. One of such examples where that machismo becomes the serious problem and the concept indeed is being discussed (implicitly) is "One, Eight, Seven" (1997). The problematic machismo pupils had decided to kill their teacher, and despite of that their plans became successful these machismo pupils finally understood their stupid actions but with a highest price - by the price of the Pyrrhic Victory...
Some feminists don't get along with masculinity and even we can say that many problems they see indeed directly in a masculinity problem, but I guess they're wrong at this. The real problem is not masculinity (the feminists are facing the same reflective problem encountering masculinity as the same as the masculinists encounters the problems with feminism), but in machismo. Machismo lead to abysmo.
So, I guess if a feminism isn't about a) to find problems mainly in a female side or solving inner feminine problems, or b) doesn't care about machismo - such a feminism fails. Moreover, if it is unable to differ machismo from masculinity it can provoke the real problems. One of such appears in now: when destructive and rough female characters arise elsewhere in cultural works.
They say that women like brutal and rough bad boys, so I guess it's time to review and rethink it to change their position toward it. Unless all 'bad guy' be there no expectation of good will be holding. Perhaps, women should stop liking those bad guys, and am sure then all of the problems will be truly vanished.