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In reply to the discussion: Posting T&A threads helps to create a hostile environment for women here. [View all]tblue37
(68,164 posts)I quoted directly in my the post you just now responded to.
That post was perhaps a repost of some part of your earlier post, but I quoted that post specifically and identified it specifically.
About the phrase "boys' club": that phrase has a specific meaning. It does not refer to men in general, but only to men who use their position of privilege to exclude and denigrate women.
The chauvinistic male characters on a show like Mad Men are men in a "boys' club." That is why it is not possible to be a "boys' club" kind of guy and at the same time a progressive man.
To not be in the "boys' club" does not mean that a man is sexually repressed. It just means that he doesn't join the sort of male group behavior symbolized by an image of boys in a treehouse or clubhouse with a sign that announces NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!
*(In fact, the image of boys in their treehouse or clubhouse with the sign that says NO GIRLS ALLOWED!! is precisely where the phrase "boys' club" comes from in these discussions of gender politics. The whole idea of a "boys' club" is that girls have cooties and should not be allowed to play.)