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Witches VS Patriarchy

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Locking this post as we've recieved reports of misandry in which I've personally also addressed in the comments.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I have a pretty low bar for posts from a comm called "witches vs patriarchy" and this still doesn't reach it. Get the fuck out with this trash.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As a man I read this not as "every single man would literally always protect a child rapist", but as "men tend to be loyal to their friends and would often only call them out on sexist behavior if an additional factor comes into play".

Yes, it's hyperbole. On the internet. In a meme community.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

If I'm being charitable to the person who wrote this. They mean that it's a thing done by men, but they didn't say all mean. I'd argue it's men like him, except one point. It's not just men. There are women who enable this too. Remember, Jeffery Epstein's right hand man, was a woman.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

gotta love casual sexism against men being normalized and even celebrated

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah. I think we could fix a lot of societal problems if we made masculinity something that was as inherently worthy of mocking and easy criticism as any other gender expression is now.

If 'not all men'ing automatically got you laughed out of every room.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey. As a man, I resent being lumped in with Elon on this.

The whole "but they do the bad thing" is a what about-ism; and many of us don't associate with people who we need to do mental gymnastics to justify their actions.

If I had a friend or acquaintance who was a child r*pist, I would have one less friend or acquaintances the day I found that out. I don't need anyone in my life that I have to justify their actions because of how shitty they actually are. My life is complicated, and/or, difficult enough... I don't need people in it that add to that with their drama and/or felony criminal activity. I don't care how "important" or "influential" they are, I will just remove myself from the situation and politely decline any future interactions with that individual regardless of all other factors.

Since I started abiding by this philosophy, I've lost more "friends" than I care to count, but the friends I still have, are people actually worth knowing. They're people who make me better as a person. I hope they feel the same about me, but that's entirely up to them to make a decision about.

In any case. Generalizing an entire gender because of the actions of one dude? Not cool. That would be like if I based my opinions on women off of the example set by someone like Carla Homolka. First of all, fuck that bitch and the horse she rode in on; she should eat the curb for the horrors she has committed; but also, she is not an example by which anyone should base an opinion on, about women in general.

Elon may be arguably less horrible than Homolka, but I think I've made my point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, so, notice how no women are jumping in to defend themselves or carla homolka? None of us jumping in to object to not being adequately distanced from her?

This is why you people can't be taken seriously.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Why men can't be taken seriously you mean? I don't know who this Carla Homolka person is, but if you had a post comparing every woman to their actions on the basis of their sex I'm pretty sure you would get women defending themselves in exactly the same way (assuming this person did something terrible from context).

I'm not sure how you don't see that using "you people" in this way is acceptable in generalizing any other group. There's definitely a pass, socially, when aiming those words at men. Ask yourself why that is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I love being likened to a psychopath (or whatever shit Musk is) just because we both have balls.

Thanks, I hate it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you both have balls the same way you both have a spine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

both have a spine

Citation needed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not all men.

But still, way too many men.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Louder for everyone on this thread!!!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Worse even that the standard lowers with an increasing imbalance in power.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I normally cringe to see "as a man.." comments but this is incredibly sexist and it's understandable to have something to say when you're getting accused of habitually defending rapists. Kind of disappointed to see it posted here

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I appreciate your sacrifice, as someone who posted "as a man".

Sexism is bad. Doesn't matter who is on the receiving end. It's still bad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Yeah, this one is a step too far for me. Instead of attributing his behavior to his well-established narcissism and power hungry freak behavior, he didn't call Trump out because....he's a man?? His identity as a piece of shit takes precedence here, not his gender.

OP is one of the nicest individuals on this platform so I'm very, very surprised by this post

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I disagree as a man, it is not reflecting gender it is reflecting personality. This is how narcists and ego maniacs behave - and powerful people often fall into that category. Men and women.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I tend to think there's some causation behind the correlation between power and sociopathy. Furthermore, I don't believe one comes necessarily before the other.

I just call it the wealth disease.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll start caring about these kind of takes when women stop throwing babies in dumpsters.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What the fuck does that mean?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

It means that it's not all women, but it is weird how it's always a woman.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Elon is a man and an asshole. Those are separate issues. Most people, men and women, are not that selfish and childish.

It's unfortunate that assholes do tend to be a loud minority among men

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This tweet sounds like it's from an incel

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn’t the term “femcel”?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I thought femcels were different as they don't necessarily blame men for their issues?

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