Contemporary heterosexual men know patriarchy is finished but cling to its pleasures

Evidence

There’s no point moralising here, either for Drake or us. Drake’s at his weakest when he half-heartedly attempts some kitschy Hallmark card affirmation of lurve; he’s at his most painfully revelatory when he admits that these impasses, these binds, are just too much for him. He can’t escape these knots because the knots are what he is. His bewilderment about what a man is supposed to be now is the very hallmark of a contemporary heterosexual masculinity that realises that the patriarchal game is up, but which is too hooked on the pleasures and privileges to relinquish them yet (just one more click on the porn, then I’ll be Mr Sensitive forever). — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1325

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the book’s running theme of controlled desublimation and the workfare-era demand for emotional performance; connects to the impostor-heroine/commodity-cynic analysis in earlier chapters. — connects to: Heterosexual interdependence makes both sexes invested in sexist arrangements; Even liberated sexuality is absorbed into the system of exploitation — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 340; The oppressed feel an ambivalent attraction to emulating their oppressors’ lifestyle — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 152 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Heterosexual interdependence makes both sexes invested in sexist arrangements #corroborates (0.85)
• Even liberated sexuality is absorbed into the system of exploitation #corroborates (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 340
• The oppressed feel an ambivalent attraction to emulating their oppressors’ lifestyle #complicates (0.75) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 152