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Post #708300

2026-01-11 13:17 UTC

Interesting 1987 NYT book review of Klaus Theweleit's *Male Fantasies* "a study of the imaginative world of the German Freikorps movement." https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/21/books/the-women-they-feared.html

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  • @Mer__edith@mastodon.world 2026-01-11 13:17

    I also find Barbara Ehrenreich's preface to the book compelling, which you can read here: https://monoskop.org/images/5/54/Theweleit_Klaus_Male_Fantasies_Vol_1_Women_Floods_Bodies_History.pdf Good material to put in conversation with discourses on the imperial boomerang, as we do the work of tending to our analyses in service of building grounded strategies ♥️

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  • @peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv 2026-01-11 13:21

    @Mer__edith feels same as with muslim theocracies, who teach that men are weak and women are their weakness.

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  • @antiaall3s@chaos.social 2026-01-11 13:55

    @Mer__edith Quite surprised to hear that the book took so long to get a translated version. German original from 1977/78.

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  • @nimi@digitalcourage.social 2026-01-11 14:17

    @Mer__edith Current - as in the 70s https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/3-2006/4650

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  • @T2R@infosec.exchange 2026-01-11 14:43

    @Mer__edith quite a few parallels to today’s incel maga “young republicans”. Only instead of literal killing they’re killing through restrictive laws and regulations to break their spirit.

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  • @Mer__edith really glad I came across your post, I've now been drawn into reading the whole book. You're right, the forward is fascinating.

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  • @Heliograph@mastodon.au 2026-01-11 21:27

    @Mer__edith eerily reminding of recent events and emerging sick mindsets :nocookieface:

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  • @photom@mastodon.social 2026-01-12 10:26

    @Mer__edith As a manliest man in the manverse, I don't mind getting engulfed in pussy. What are those men? Gay or what?

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