The broad implied usage is one that I think has caused a lot of problems for some people, many of whom are in this corner of Twitter. It's not a great thing to be immersed in if you're a socially awkward man with a propensity to take things very seriously/literally.
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I think in this particular circle everyone remembers the Scott Aaronson internet in which everyone took guys being kinda sad about their difficulties dating, for reasons that were widely shared in their peer group, as evidence of toxic male entitlement. We didn't like that much.
*incident. Though also internet. None of which is to delegitimise these concepts, or to say that there aren't real problems being pointed at here. Some of these attacks were probably 100% legitimate. But people're still going to be wary.
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I actually think this community could benefit a lot from a good influx of feminist theory, and that's part of why I go ahead and use it anyway sometimes (especially in my "masculinity problems" threads where it's less likely to trigger this effect).
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But it's definitely made 10x harder by it mostly being heard in context where it's being used against them (/us, although it's a bit different because I've mostly been on the inside, so have a different though still kinda unpleasant experience there).
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