Message from @Indigo
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This logic is actually more poisonous than it sounds because all the racists have to do is point out that they aren't in power....
@Akona I couldn't tell you one way or the other
I know he wasn't white, but this is a friend of mine who told me about him
Regardless - it's still racism no matter what angle it comes from.
It's no more acceptable than if a white guy refuses to serve Asians, or whatever
Yea true. I was just gonna say that black people tend to make that claim often. As a black person you hear that stuff all the time “it’s not racist if they are white”- stuff like that
That sounds a lot like the same old rhetoric you get with every supremacist "It's okay when we do it!" lol
I'm hoping that at some point people may learn that it's never okay. Or, maybe, just stop pretending it is.
It’s absurd
Women utilize “violence” in other ways.
Well it's not really the same convo, but in nonreciprocal domestic violence women are the ones who perpetrate it more often, even if when men do they tend to cause greater injury. So I can see that being true
I think this was a good post that was fairly overlooked/missed
I think people can be too quick to redefine feminism, rather than recognise that many people are badly representing feminism and aren't actually feminists.
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People are not what they say they do
It's what they do
Karen Straughans had a brilliant answer on the 'not real feminists' line of defense.
You cannot let feminist and feminist organizations make outrageously sexist laws and policies against men and when called out, claim that they aren't 'real feminists'
This is exactly what I was worried about when I told people that feminists would act like they had always been onboard with male issues to score points for their movement. They did the same thing with gay rights - after opposing them for years - and they now act like they had a big hand in securing them. Which they didn't.
They absolutely will co-opt our issues wherever the tide turns against them, and they will do it shamelessly.
And then they will continue as normal.
This is why it's important to smash feminist rhetoric and protest feminism itself.
If we don't, Male Suicide will just become another talking point for #HeForShe
Feminists aren't some hive mind
It isn't fair to be against feminism as a whole
Women need support just as men do
Being against feminism is not being anti women
I do hate the way some people will ignore the issues of men in order to promote feminism
And I'm against misandrists of course
Being against feminism means being against what feminism had done and continues to do
They give a rats ass about men's issues
It feels like an overgeneralisation
Everything they had done for men is "teaching them to cry more and combating toxic masculinity"
You can check menslib if you want
Almost all of their activism centers among combating toxic masculinity and teaching men to cry
Do you think that a person can be a feminist as well as an MRA?
Or do you disagree with the common definition of feminism?
I believe a person can be both feminist and an mra. Feminism had done good for women. I do believe that both movements are necessary for a non lopsided world