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I think the elephant in the room is actually the fact she’s a woman. Liberals would find so many issues with it, if it was an article about models of femininity

• 1letterunixname 3y ago
  Absolutely. The author's gender shouldn't matter if the writing stands well on its own. The issue is that skepticism about authority on the subject is a readily assumed knee-jerk reflex after reading the title. The actual writing doesn't meet credulity because of the cherry-picking of extreme examples used them to form hasty generalizations. Another issue is that a large swath of modern men, in my view, are silently ignored and/or don't participate in society as much in the recent decade or take part in these sort of public debates. Throwing around "incel" comes across as a passive-aggressive judgement tantamount to labeling people "terrorists" or "pedophiles". If younger people, independent of gender, are moving to the right, then that signals there is a messaging and/or brand problem with the left doing or not doing something. Perhaps the mainstream left needs to preach "tolerance of all != acceptance, muzzling people == totalitarian != liberalism" to bring more undecided, swing votes, independents, and such into their camp. Conclusion: They don't have a map their thesis purports to offer, only opinions lacking in merit, purpose, and constructive feedback.
  • fragmede 3y ago
    > Absolutely. The author's gender shouldn't matter if the writing stands well on its own. shouldn't, but we're clearly not in a post-sexism world yet. In hindsight, the same article should have been released under a male-sounding pen name.