WOMEN ONLY COMMUNITY MEN PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT
I totally get the joke, and Pedro can only be a good thing (huge fan, pray daily that he adopts me). But I do understand why some men would find it insulting. What’s your thoughts?
WOMEN ONLY COMMUNITY MEN PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT
I totally get the joke, and Pedro can only be a good thing (huge fan, pray daily that he adopts me). But I do understand why some men would find it insulting. What’s your thoughts?
Hyperbole is a literary device that uses deliberate and extreme exaggeration to emphasize a point or create a dramatic effect.
Nobody is saying that he’s the only one. Nobody who has even an iota of ability to read critically would read it that way. The only way to read it that way is if you’re looking to be offended.
This is praise for whoever this guy is using a form of expression that has literally thousands of years of precedent. With a mild critique of how men are socialized in modern society on the side, using this hyperbolic depiction of this guy as the model of a good man.
I’m sorry it bothers you that people aren’t applying #NotAllMen to each and every criticism of men, but … it’s not going to happen. You’re going to have to just accept that people don’t write multi-myriad word essays to outline each and every exception and nuance of a situation in a god-damned meme macro!
You may think no one is saying “all men”, but I promise you I’ve seen this very discourse online and irl. My question to you is, what do you hope to achieve with these memes? To voice your anger, or change people’s minds? I’m not defending those who perpetuate the patriarchy, but let’s not shoot ourselves in the foot by alienating men who would otherwise be on our side if they didn’t feel like they had to face an angry mob. Please, let’s not use the same weapons used against us for millennia - it’s not working and frankly I am concerned it is starting to actually backfire (see: young men throwing themselves into the arms of the far right). We are literally playing into the hands of those who want to divide us.
If oppressors get offended by the oppressed talking shit and get “alienated” by it they were never going to be on the oppressed’s side anyway. I have no patience for people who look for reasons to be offended. There’s enough actually offensive stuff out there you don’t have to make shit up so that you can get “offended” (in ways that coincidentally benefit you in your perception).
I mean seriously, we’re right back at the start: Men are worried people will laugh at them. Women are worried people will kill them.
Fuck that first group.
It’s clear you’re not going to change your mind on this, so I’m tapping out. My last appeal to you is, if your end goal is for women and men to be free of the patriarchy, you should focus on actions and messaging that work to change people’s minds, and less on trying to be “right”.
P.S. Your post reeks of saying that the primary victims of patriarchy are responsible for coddling the feelings of the primary perpetrators of patriarchy. Not a fan of this attitude in the slightest.
Is defending people from unfair characterisation based solely on their gender “coddling” now? In the space of two comments you make the argument that the meme isn’t about all men, then tar them all with the brush of “primary perpetrators”. Do you really not see the problem? Yes, fight back against actual perpetrators, but don’t use a machine gun in a crowded room and take a bunch of other people with them. There are other ways to convince men to fight against the patriarchy (of which they are also victims!).