I *know* they mean well. I *know* their intention is not to make women feel powerless & fearful & as though they can't possibly succeed in this world. I know most women are not going to believe them & be discouraged from what they want to do. I still wish they'd stop it.
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Some women, on being told they are weak and powerless and the world is against them, will believe it and crumble. Others will believe it and fight. Many more will ignore the paranoid conspiracy theorists and just carry on regardless.
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The least appealing response to this narrative is believing it & both crumbling & fighting at the same time. That's when we get that lovely mixture of rage & victim mentality which characterises a certain type of feminism & is so embarrassing for universally liberal (ex)feminists
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I honestly don’t know enough about the different sides of the ‘patriarchy or not’ debate. Can you point me to useful article thats pro your argument, please?
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Don't you love it when woke dudes try to tell women they should be scared and how they should be offended
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I once tweeted my opinion on the Google memo and how I didn't find it offensive and some men went out of their way to private message me to tell me how I'm opressed and need to be angry and offended

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Victim mongering. Its ego massaging for the mongerer - they get to feel as though they are a superior human - might even be financial return. The victim is left with exactly what you point to. Many are willing to be complicit and play the victim. This is a pernicious cycle.
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Laser Tag might work
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It's odd when I find some white person on here like. "You're a minority and you're oppressed!!!" "No I'm not." "You're just ignorant of your oppression and wrong." Those types of dialogues are always mega condescending.
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If you ever give in to that urge, can I have a tenner on you?
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Being a "feminist" gives these men a sense of superiority over ordinary men and women, and the justification necessary to condescend to and educate "naive" women like yourself.
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#feminist: Don't you see, Helen, that your failure to recognize that you live in a#Patriarchy is proof that you live in one?! You've been brainwashed by Bad Men! Fortunately there are GOOD Men like ME to set you straight and correct your wrong thinking!!!!!pic.twitter.com/mJPDxkSKRs
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That's very nice of you, it does serious damage to a bloke's ego, when he gets beat up by a gurl.
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A lot of time and verbiage spent explaining how you're not a victim. How very Shakespearean.
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It's a mythologized world view. Intersectional feminism is like a religion and "the patriarchy" is its devil. Conspiracy theories are like this too. There's some evil villain behind everything bad, so we get to be heroic by fighting it.
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Nothing wrong with resorting to a moderated physical confrontation as well, ie in the ring, big gloves and mouth guards. Very cathartic. And a few lessons in the noble art of boxing will have you beating these fellows
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