• Nat (she/they)
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    7 days ago

    There’s so much you’ve said here and I think it really demonstrates a pattern of thinking.

    • Men getting mugged to: nobody’s denying that, but I suspect it’s less common than you’re making it out to be.
    • Relatives being inappropriate: maybe it’d be 3% worse for you, but that’s a big leap to say “eh, it’s bad enough already” for everyone.
    • Catcalling: yeah, cause you’re not going to be catcalled. You’re also unlikely to ever see me on the street, but I see myself on the street all the time, this is just a sampling bias effectively. Catcalling might not be super common, but if you pass a hundred men a day…
    • Friends: that does suck. That’s not a gendered problem though.
    • Rejection: Not all men handle rejection poorly, but if 1% do and 100 talk to me, I have a 65% chance at least 1 of them is. You also ask for constructive criticism, but that’s not really how this works. All I can say is why I don’t think it’ll work, like telling you I’m gay, that’s not criticism.
    • Stomping down women’s voices: dude, it’s not some big display, it’s the little things that implicitly tell women their voice is lesser. Ever been implicitly called stupid or untrustworthy? Given constant jabs? Congrats, you know what it feels like too, but for women it’s frequently gendered. See that xkcd comic about “girls are bad at bad”.
    • Talking behind the back: you bring up 2 anecdotes as if they disprove women being gossiped about with no evidence. If you suspected that latter woman was having an affair the manager without evidence then you’re still part of the problem, so I hope you did actually have evidence beyond suspicious shifts.

    Anyway, it just seems like you downplay anything that doesn’t happen literally 100% of the time and play oppression olympics. I’m not saying your life is automatically great just by being a man, and men do face some unique issues, but let’s not pretend any of that means women have it fine, actually.