Benjamin Cain
1 min readNov 23, 2020

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Thanks. I haven't read Kristeva, but I see that she focuses on the split between femininity and masculinity, or between mother and father figures. I’ve dabbled in that discourse too. Her concept of abjection (formation and separation of the individual self) is also interesting to me, since it’s consistent with my emphasis on the promethean or existential revolt against the wilderness. Doubtless, she’d see that revolt as masculine, but the rise of Neolithic civilization might well have been a male-dominated venture.

https://medium.com/@benjamincain8/femininity-and-masculinity-in-american-politics-24e774288043?source=friends_link&sk=21e247efcbc74bbd7f2d8250fe644eaf

https://medium.com/@benjamincain8/woke-lameness-and-toxic-femininity-a38f7e3cb3f3?source=friends_link&sk=be4703623bcd2fdf17441070d18b8f32

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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