If the claim is that men are oppressive, entitled, misogynistic & violent, then clearly #NotAtllMen #VeryFewMen #FFS
If the claim is that men can be perceived as oppressive, entitled, misogynistic & violent just for existing by this kind of feminist, then #YesAllMenhttps://twitter.com/MichaelGLFlood/status/990543996811333632 …
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"The impact of your actions is more significant than the intent" - This is obviously directly contradictory to the one above in which the impact of the rejection on the man was to make him feel hurt but that emotional reaction shows he's part of the problem.
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He's not allowed to have feelings of hurt because he's a man. Meanwhile, any feelings a woman or racial or sexual minority has in response to any action of a person perceived as privileged are immediately legitimate & the privileged person must take responsibility for them.
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The idea that whether or not we need to take responsibility for what we do and what we feel depends on whether we are considered to be privileged or marginalised rather than whether it is ethical/reasonable to do is an appalling one.
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This is why I am beginning to think we need to stop saying 'postmodernism' which is too broad & easily confused and find a term just for this epistemology which works on a perception of society dominated by discourses of power in which knowledge & ethics are positional & relative
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Postmodernism is notoriously difficult to understand and this leads people to give up or latch on to largely erroneous but graspable explanations like 'cultural Marxism' which misses the epistemological framework which is essential to understand.
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And that framework isn't nearly as complicated as postmodernists make it out to be. The few core ideas causing us so many problems are actually quite simple to break down and explain although they are counterintuitive to both liberal & conservative conceptions of fairness.
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Yes and on a more basic level, feeling hurt by rejection is not only a male thing. This article felt so wrong, it was difficult to read.
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Thank you for saying that. I was trying to put my finger on what bugged me about that. You nailed it.
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I had a look at that guys profile, its as pathetic as I expected.
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