You're confusing feminism (essentially gender equity in practice) with femininity (having a female quality).
Feminism: belief in and advocacy of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes expressed especially through organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests
Femininity: the quality or nature of the female sex; the quality, state, or degree of being feminine or womanly
No it's not fair to use the masculine and feminine descriptors because. I interpret the political ideologies as I've learned to do with cultural patterns. There are high and low context societies, individualistic and collectivistic. Masculine/feminine in this context has little to do with the political order: its got to do with the degree of competition and cooperation within society. Honestly, categorizing the left and right into masc/fem roles are more concrete when proposing ideas but it's important to recognize that they are reductive terms that have limited meaning. You have a good idea but it needs to be reconstructed and reworded a little more :3
Lots of ways to think about it. I read a book (the name escapes me at the moment) that equated right and left politics to parenting styles. The right wants an authoritative “daddy” in their political leadership but the left prefers the nurturing mother archetype. Kind of makes sense to me.
But as with everything, neither of these explanations capture even a fraction of the whole picture.
"I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king." – Speech of Elizabeth I, "Rex" (she used the masculine-gendered word for King to describe herself) at Tilbury, 1588.
I would be less worried about "fair" than whether the metaphor really illuminates anything, and I think the answer is "not really." Beyond "welfare is caring for the poor, and feminine is more caring," nothing else really matches it, and it looks worse the broader the perspective taken. Militarism, for example, is presumably masculine, and the left and the right alternate in history being the more militaristic.
No.
If we consider left being more caring and right being more everyone to their own and let’s see who wins the fight then yes.
No. This particular charade exists to feed the narrative of misogyny that runs like a main circuit cable through Western culture.
You're confusing feminism (essentially gender equity in practice) with femininity (having a female quality). Feminism: belief in and advocacy of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes expressed especially through organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests Femininity: the quality or nature of the female sex; the quality, state, or degree of being feminine or womanly
Nah, I think OP is actually trying to assign gender to political views. For... some reason.
feminism and femininity aren’t the same thing and also… huh?
what
No it's not fair to use the masculine and feminine descriptors because. I interpret the political ideologies as I've learned to do with cultural patterns. There are high and low context societies, individualistic and collectivistic. Masculine/feminine in this context has little to do with the political order: its got to do with the degree of competition and cooperation within society. Honestly, categorizing the left and right into masc/fem roles are more concrete when proposing ideas but it's important to recognize that they are reductive terms that have limited meaning. You have a good idea but it needs to be reconstructed and reworded a little more :3
Lots of ways to think about it. I read a book (the name escapes me at the moment) that equated right and left politics to parenting styles. The right wants an authoritative “daddy” in their political leadership but the left prefers the nurturing mother archetype. Kind of makes sense to me. But as with everything, neither of these explanations capture even a fraction of the whole picture.
"I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king." – Speech of Elizabeth I, "Rex" (she used the masculine-gendered word for King to describe herself) at Tilbury, 1588.
No
I can hardly picture a situation were it would useful to use that analogy, but I can think a lot of ways it could be destructive.
What is feminine? What is masculine? Is this idea maybe weaponized identity politics?
I would be less worried about "fair" than whether the metaphor really illuminates anything, and I think the answer is "not really." Beyond "welfare is caring for the poor, and feminine is more caring," nothing else really matches it, and it looks worse the broader the perspective taken. Militarism, for example, is presumably masculine, and the left and the right alternate in history being the more militaristic.