Pelle Billing, my new favourite antagonist, has written a new article for Men’s News Daily. The article is about social structures, and although I don’t buy the part about identity politics being wrong (it only became problematic for white, straight men when they had to share power with blacks, gays, and women), I do find it interesting that Dr Billing writes,
Denying the impact of structures is not only ineffective, it is fairly silly too. Whenever you meet someone from a different country you immediatly notice that they speak a different language, and have different customs and traditions. How can we explain this without acknowledging the importance of cultural and societal structures?
The next step for Billing should be to acknowledge that these customs and traditions have an impact on how we judge what is in the interest of the individual. The white men of Christian origin that make up Billing’s masculinist network on Facebook are perhaps not as culturally unbiased as their self-righteous rhetoric suggests.