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> Make a joke about typical male stereotypes, nobody bats an eye I'm starting to think that maybe this is a problem. Maybe we should stop tolerating male stere

• lostlogin 10y ago
  It's not a great thing, sure. But how about a different power imbalance situation. You go to a doctor. The doctor makes a joke "you patients have no idea..." Or similar. The power imbalance there is obvious to anyone. You making a joke about the doctor is different. Power imbalance makes some things less acceptable when its to your advantage. Power imbalance due to gender is generally harder to detect when male.
  • corecoder 10y ago
    Totally agree about power imbalance; stereotyping (and belittling in general) someone from a position of more perceived power is of course worse, no doubt about that. But parent's point was along the lines of: women can't take jokes as men do, men are such sports! The most important objection is of course that stereotypes about men don't actually harm men, while stereotypes about women do often harm women, but I also wanted to point out that men being such sports is not necessarily a great thing.