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[–] [email protected] 138 points 2 months ago (10 children)

The thing that NOBODY seems to understand, or maybe not willing to admit is, you CANNOT group people together.

It's the whole reason racism logically makes no sense. At all.

"Oh, all those dirty (insert race here) are good for nothin! They're all assholes!"

And sure, regardless of what race you inserted there, there's going to be some assholes. There's also going to be some amazing people that you're unfairly judging.

And it's not just races. It's anything. Races, genders, religions, countries, social groups, book clubs, whatever.

If you think all people of one group think the same on everything, you're just factually wrong. And if you use that incorrect fact to judge that group, now you're just an asshole.

I've found that people th]?6ink judging people is bad, and wrong. I don't think so. I think some people are just terrible at judging people, and miss the point of judging people. You're supposed to judge them as an individual. Not as (insert group here).

[–] [email protected] 114 points 2 months ago (65 children)

I think we can safely shit on Nazis as a whole, though.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

My critic to what the other guy said, is that you can judge a group of that group is specific enough to judge them on these characteristics.

Are all christians bad? Hell no. Active adult members of the Westboro Baptist Church? Hell yes. They are bad because their website is literally godhatesfags.com.

Now Nazis are fucking Nazis. 11 millions murders should be enough to judge them as a group and those who liked it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yup. What are they actually advocating for? What are their true core beliefs?

It should also be noted that there are groups you can control your membership of (political parties, religions) and groups you are forced into (ethnicity, sexuality). The group you choose to join speaks far more about how terrible or good you are. The worst groups and people are those that attack people based on groups they are forced into, bigots and fascists.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The thing that NOBODY seems to understand [is] you cannot group people together.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I know a person who genuinely thinks men shouldn't have any rights because they're so bad. She's like "women are superior, they develop emotional maturity earlier" or "all men are assholes". I think she's a lost hope.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Don't talk to them anymore. Antisocial people should be isolated.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There’s a difference between judging people on a category they don’t choose vs. a set of beliefs they choose to follow.

If I tried to claim all brown-eyed people are evil, I’d be bigoted because eye color does not determine who you are as a person. But if I claimed that all members of the Puppy Kickers Club are evil because they literally believe in kicking puppies and require doing so frequently as a requirement for membership, then my claim is valid.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 months ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They're just all related to Beedle.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Without men who will protect you from men?

Checkmate feminists.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I thought that's what the bears were for.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Can’t tell his expression at the end. Is he mad or is he ashamed or does he kinda like her?

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

The superior template.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago

My guess is that he's farting

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm genuinely torn, because I support the message, but the execution is... very unclear.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The entire "bear" thing is the exact same situation from the other side. The reality is that there is always nuance, while it is more popular / more often that people see the extreme outliers and attribute that to the entire group.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The point of the bear question isn't blaming men. It's assessing risk, and the risk of random man in the wilderness is far greater than random bear. Yes. A bear can maul, kill, and eat you, but a bear will never assualt, torture, or throw you in a pit for years on end. The risk of sexual and psychological abuse is worse to women than the threat of being eaten by an animal. It's not about blame at all.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love that they made my point for me.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (9 children)

This is part of thing with anything. Whos definition of feminism whos definition of communism. Jane Adams feminism. Hell yeah. But then some celebrity in the 80's was arguing against physical fitness tests for firefighters saying well they could use like power axes or something (which you know. did not exist). Which is sorta funny to me because its sorta dissing on womens ability to pass the tests. Its like there are women who can pass the tests. Its not beyond them. Felt antifeminist to me.

EDITED - I think it was Gloria Steinem

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

I mean I'm a single straight dude and I'm pretty much certain guys are trash.

So while not all feminists might think that, I could give them plenty of examples of all guys being trash

Edit: a bit too many of you took this way too seriously, it's a fucking comic strip.

Yes not all guys are trash, but the number of times I have to call my friends out on something like "women expecting too much of us because they get paid less." Like no, women expecting equality is not expecting too much.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You'll get it for real when you realize it's not a "men bad" thing but more of a "people bad" kind of thing. Everyone has the capacity to do wrong, and a lot of people choose not to overcome that. Men are just typically in more of a position of power to be able to do larger acts of wrongdoing, and have historically either been punished lightly or not at all for many insidious crimes because of their predisposition to power.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

That's just internalized misandry though

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

By that logic all women are trash too. I could give examples of just about every woman I know doing shitty things. Nobody's perfect. People do shitty things. Sometimes it's just here and there. Sometimes it's a consistent pattern of behavior. All men and all women are not consistently bad, some are. If your friends are consistently like that you have bad friends. I have had to explain shit to my friends on occasion and I've had to have things explained to me. It happens but it's far from a consistent thing and we've all gotten better as we've grown and broadened our perspective.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Are people still saying that?

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