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    57 months ago

    but I also think it’s not reasonable to expect people to always stay silent when someone’s venting/feelings leads them to make broad, declarative statements about the badness/problems of a large heterogenous group.

    Venting to your best friend or friend group is not the same as venting in a public forum. Or even to your male partner. Understanding the issue so that it can be solved in a systematic way is our default reaction, not “oh she just wants to vent let’s hug her”. We don’t even have the same emotional response to that, source as of yet unknown. Going out on a limb: Probably not all nature, probably not all nurture.

    That said, the proper answer still isn’t “not all men” simply because it doesn’t have the proper impact. “I don’t understand why you’re angry at me” is a much better way to stop an “all men” rant mid-sentence because now you’re not opening an abstract discussion about the nature of the universe but telling her about the direct emotional turmoil and therefore labour she’s causing, leading her to re-evaluate the relative importance of both. YMMV when it comes to online but in-person I can definitely recommend it.

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      Eh, i find the while ‘not on a public forum!!’ To be pretty fucking weaksauce as someone whose been visibly female on the internet since the 90’s. It rather smacks of rules for thee but not for me.

      I’ve never seen mofos produce such stenorious walls of pontificating text about anything but hurt male feelings

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        37 months ago

        I get that a lot of your statement is hyperbolic, but you should probably be more careful about throwing out wildly untrue statements, unless your intent is just to sow division and further contribute to the cycle of hate

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          47 months ago

          It’s just very…something seeing a demographic that has traditionally had no real problems with broad swathes of denigration suddenly paint such behaviour the Worst Thing Ever and start using other people’s words to explain how it’s so very very wrong the instant it happens to them.

          It’s a kneejerk reaction, and so very useful for clouding the issue and abrogating recognition of unconscious bias, advantage and continuation of behaviour.

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            57 months ago

            Right, so surely you agree that painting with such a broad brush is bad in the general case? What makes it different here? Just that men have historically perpetrated it? Does that give us the right to treat them badly as a form of revenge or w/e?

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            27 months ago

            something seeing a demographic that has traditionally had no real problems with broad swathes of denigration

            Patriarchy isn’t the rule of men, it’s the rule of fathers. And most fathers answered to an authority above them. Denigration was rampant. Still is, under capitalism. When did you last hear an employee laud their boss for being such a great person.

            Though of course that’s besides the point as revenge doesn’t ever lead to societal good anyway.