• Broadfern@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Why is this a gendered thing?

    The vortex of curiosity and sidetrackery does not discriminate.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      2 hours ago

      Because women can make gendered remarks about men in general and “the male brain,” and no one cares. But if a man does the same thing about women, he’s a misogynist asshole.

      Like how if a man talks about something he’s passionate about, someone says “stop mansplaining.” But if a woman is talking about something and you don’t listen intently, then you’re sexist.

      And the double-standard is somehow okay because “history” and “oppression” and yadda yadda, and because anyone who raises a concern about it is immediately labeled as a “red-pilled incel chud brainwashed by the manosphere.”

      But women throw around slogans like “gatekeep, gaslight, girlboss” as if that’s the meaning of empowerment and egalitarianism. And then they’ll go “wOmEn’S lIbErAtIoN iSn’T mEn’S oPpReSsIoN!!!1!1!” as if that’s some obvious thing that everyone knows, and not a lesson that they apparently need to learn themselves.