the like. "barbies/cottagecore is for girls and legos/dark academia is for boys but idk why!" type statements are actually a perfect encapsulation of the way so many people will regurgitate straight up undiluted right wing misogyny and gender roles and not stop for even a second to examine where that thought process might come from because surely since they themselves are not right wing there's absolutely no need to interrogate their own thinking at any point.
it's the idea that merely believing themselves to be left wing/progressive is already enough and there's no point to work on themselves and their beliefs any further than that, as if they didn't still grow up in a culture that's steeped in misogynistic values and spoonfeeds them to absolutely everybody from the moment they're born, and as if it's not a lifelong process for everyone to identify the way they've been shaped and influenced by that and actively counteract it.
but i guess that would require admitting how deep this stuff actually runs and that misogyny is in fact not diet oppression
