And there it is. #NotAllMen
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Countering negative generalisations based on immutable characteristics is central to all action to oppose prejudice & discrimination.
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because it's dismissive and doesnt actually resolve any issues. anyone with half a brain cell knows "not all men", dont be dense
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But it's dismissive of generalisations which do need to be dismissed. A lot of people simply don't know not to ascribe collective blame.
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It's so easy not to say 'Men do X' 'Women think X' 'Muslims believe Z' if you don't mean to suggest its a problem related to the group.
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but it IS men, we're not just picking on men lol. why say "people" when it is men that do these things most of the time??? Serious question.
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Still very easy not to say 'men' when its a tiny minority of men. I'm sure you see the problem when people say 'Muslims commit jihad.'
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Hey, man here. It's not a small minority of men. It's an overwhelming majority. You don't need to defend us. Thanks.
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I didn't see -ve generalisations abt men in this thread. I saw women & men pointing out to some men that women wear headphones at gym to +
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That came later. At that point I just wanted to talk about the objections to people saying
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In the thread the # was legit. It was used bc a man was rebutting a woman explaining why women don't want to have to tell men to go away. +
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which - she said - is bc *some* men get nasty. And obv it's hard for women to know which men they will be. So when he said "not all men" +
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+he's not listening. He's saying "I can ask you to take your headphones off bc I won't take rejection badly, even though you don't kno that"
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I did see it, Simon. The conversation moved on.
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Ok! My bad...
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Not your bad. You totally got it unlike others.
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so if said im eating pizza for dinner youre gonna think i ate every slice of pizza in the world??????? serious question
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No. We've been here. No-one would think you were seeing every man in the world if you said you were going out with one for dinner either.
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...so then why would you assume that here??
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I've heard ppl say it in resp to the 'all men are potential rapists' thing, but when it's a stranger, not-all-men isnt particularly relevant
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as long as they're an 'unknown quantity', they can't be put in the 'good guy' column yet. But in gen? I dont get obj to 'not all..' either
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