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It honestly comes off as thinly-veiled misandry (wouldn't be surprising as the author is a woman). Would this be appropriate to say about cultural things around
by Dirlewanger 7y ago
It honestly comes off as thinly-veiled misandry (wouldn't be surprising as the author is a woman). Would this be appropriate to say about cultural things around celebrating a young girl being a full-grown woman?
- Aloha 7y agoThe byline does indeed indicate it was written by a woman, but I've seen similar misandristic critical writing from men too.
- NoGravitas 7y agoMisandry isn't real.
- Excel_Wizard 7y agoWhy?
- nameismypw 7y agoThe same reason reverse racism isn't real.
- ameister14 7y agoThat's not possible. Reverse racism isn't real because it's just 'racism' and there's no reverse about it. Misandry is specific.
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- nameismypw 7y agoAlright fascist.
- SkyBelow 7y agoSince Asians are the global majority, discrimination against them is impossible? I find it interesting that the power + prejudice view is selectively enforced only at certain scales of power. Global? No. National? Depends upon the nation. Local? No. It is almost like the application of the definition assumes the power structure in the average US college town was representative world wide.
- subjectsigma 7y agoOh boy https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/
- nameismypw 7y agoLol, fuck off. Scientific racism apology is still racism apology.
- subjectsigma 7y agoThis is not a scientific apology for racism, it's not even an apology. The reason I linked it is because it argues that if you think reverse racism doesn't exist, you're probably right, but only because you're using a definition of racism which is biased or functionally useless. I think this thread shows the argument extends to sexism. Does that mean misandry is a systemic issue on the scale of misogyny? Probably not. Does it exist and does it hurt people? Yes. Does denying that trivialize other people's experiences, exacerbate groupthink, and make you look like an ass? Yes.
- namewasmypi 7y agoYou seem to have read the "scientific apology for racism" part but not the "fuck off" part.
- wwweston 7y ago"Reverse racism" is often worth an eye-roll in the same way rich people complaining about anti-wealth discrimination is, but not because the phenomena can't be real or even genuinely threatening on occasion. Because while no privilege makes you invulnerable, some burdens are chronic/systemic. Situational racism is different in degree than systemic racism. Binary gender roles are a bit different IMO. Without making a judgment about who has it "worse," it's probably fair to say that there are systemic privileges and burdens members of each experience. Misandry might be one way of referring to one side of one side of that.
- nameismypw 7y agoMales have power. They are not victims of prejudice lol. So much reactionary thinking on this site
- wwweston 7y agoIf for some reason the word "misandry" hacks your brain, consider the term "intersectionality." If you understand it, then you understand it's possible to hold some privileges and be systemically burdened at the same time. You understand that holding power and suffering prejudice aren't single dimension matters, nor are they exclusive. You might even understand that they're a function of more than various identity markers. Or... maybe you're just in this to lol at windmills with one-sentence drive-by insulting comments. How would anyone here know?
- namewasmypi 7y agoMisandry is MRA bullshit. Gender equality is called feminism. Read a book.
- voldacar 7y agoWikipedia defines misandry as "the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against men or boys". You don't think anyone has ever felt hateful, contemptuous, or prejudiced against men or boys?
- cycrutchfield 7y agoHow is an article about the role of beards in history “thinly-veiled misandry”? What’s with the MGTOW/redpill language?
- mirimir 7y agoWell, talking about "the ideology of early modern masculinity" as "precarious, provisional and potentially groundless" could be taken as misandry. But I suppose that one could say similar things about femininity and various aspects of female anatomy. I think that it's mostly about people altering their appearance to influence others.
- zaccus 7y agoI don't see any MGTOW/redpill language. Please don't evoke that nonsense here.
- foldingmoney 7y ago>What’s with the MGTOW/redpill language? I don't think it helps to jump to conclusions and start slinging labels. Doesn't advance the conversation. Like if someone expressed some innocuous belief held by republicans and was accused of being a white supremacist because some white supremacists are republicans. That's the death of civil discourse.