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You just don't get it. Who cares if its true! Try, for a moment, to put yourself in the shoes of someone of the opposite gender (I assume you're a man) and imag

You just don't get it. Who cares if its true! Try, for a moment, to put yourself in the shoes of someone of the opposite gender (I assume you're a man) and imagine how that would make you feel about joining a company board after all that's happened with Uber so far on the sexism and gender discrimination front. If you did, you'd never have written this comment...but you seem to have an empathy issue.

Houshalter 9y ago
I really really doubt anyone would care if someone made a similar joke about men. At best someone would note that it's hypocritical like I am, but not actually be personally offended. Some women make comments like that all the time and no one cares.
- thebiglebrewski 9y ago
  Hi there! You also "don't get it"! That's NOT THE POINT. Who cares if anyone would care if women said that about men. It wouldn't matter if women made that joke about men because we have a ton of privilege just by nature of our gender. Look at the context here! This is a company that has oppressed an entire gender and it just continues. And then this shit. So why does it even matter if women said that about men? And would they? And are they doing stuff like that systemically, like men do, systematically since the dawn of civilization putting women in a lesser role? - A man
  - safek 9y ago
    You are possibly right to be frustrated about gender problems, but your suggestion — that in the fight for gender equality it's ok to construct a double standard for men and women — is mistaken. If you want to fix gender inequality, fix specific unjust advantages and disadvantages. The idea that because men have blanket "privilege" women should be compensated with additional privileges leads to more inequality, not less.
  - Houshalter 9y ago
    You straight up asked me to imagine the situation was reversed. And I did. And I noted that it wouldn't bother me or really anyone. No one cares about women making fun of men, and I don't think they should. Especially if it was an offhand joke about how men talk more or less or something. I can't even imagine how that would raise any emotion in me. I might even laugh at it, provided the joke was executed well. You are really grasping at straws to make an excuse for a double standard. Either gendered jokes are ok or they aren't. It shouldn't matter what gender. Anyway the political skew on this site is ridiculous. The f-ing president of the United States got elected after saying way more heinous shit about women than this. Half the population still voted for him and loves him. Yet on this site any comment even remotely critical of feminism is downvoted and flagged to hell or removed by the mods.
  - Houshalter 9y ago
    And my comment in reply to this nonsense got flagged and downvoted, 3 days later, on an already flagged and buried subthread. Wtf. You guys are just proving my point.

Houshalter 9y ago

I really really doubt anyone would care if someone made a similar joke about men. At best someone would note that it's hypocritical like I am, but not actually be personally offended. Some women make comments like that all the time and no one cares.

thebiglebrewski 9y ago
Hi there! You also "don't get it"! That's NOT THE POINT. Who cares if anyone would care if women said that about men. It wouldn't matter if women made that joke about men because we have a ton of privilege just by nature of our gender. Look at the context here! This is a company that has oppressed an entire gender and it just continues. And then this shit. So why does it even matter if women said that about men? And would they? And are they doing stuff like that systemically, like men do, systematically since the dawn of civilization putting women in a lesser role? - A man
- safek 9y ago
  You are possibly right to be frustrated about gender problems, but your suggestion — that in the fight for gender equality it's ok to construct a double standard for men and women — is mistaken. If you want to fix gender inequality, fix specific unjust advantages and disadvantages. The idea that because men have blanket "privilege" women should be compensated with additional privileges leads to more inequality, not less.
- Houshalter 9y ago
  You straight up asked me to imagine the situation was reversed. And I did. And I noted that it wouldn't bother me or really anyone. No one cares about women making fun of men, and I don't think they should. Especially if it was an offhand joke about how men talk more or less or something. I can't even imagine how that would raise any emotion in me. I might even laugh at it, provided the joke was executed well. You are really grasping at straws to make an excuse for a double standard. Either gendered jokes are ok or they aren't. It shouldn't matter what gender. Anyway the political skew on this site is ridiculous. The f-ing president of the United States got elected after saying way more heinous shit about women than this. Half the population still voted for him and loves him. Yet on this site any comment even remotely critical of feminism is downvoted and flagged to hell or removed by the mods.
- Houshalter 9y ago
  And my comment in reply to this nonsense got flagged and downvoted, 3 days later, on an already flagged and buried subthread. Wtf. You guys are just proving my point.