Hopefully with enough time having passed for people to calm down, I'd like to embark on a discussion of a metanarrative that sprung up during the Kavanaugh hearings:
Namely, that the #feminist notion of men sharing their feelings is a complete lie. #MRAhttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-fox-news-interview-sexual-assault.html …
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their sons to be open and honest with their feelings and emotions, but then proceed to SHAME their sons if they ever bring up circumcision pain and regret: "It isn't as bad as FGM!" "I suffered pain delivering you, a little cut is no big deal." (2/2)
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More generalisation, running together two very different groups of women. Prejudice is treating all (all right, "not all" but almost all) members of a group as if they share some disliked characteristic.
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I wrote as nuanced a tweet as I could and I'm still being accused of prejudice. Wow. I put American in there because for the most part European feminists aren't virulently anti-FGM and pro-MGM. What two different groups of women am I mashing together?
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I'll agree that millennial feminists are less likely to support circumcision. I'll agree that West Coast feminists are less likely to support circumcision. I'll grant that since a majority of Americans support circumcision, statistically that would apply to feminists as well.
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However, it is blatant hypocrisy for Midwest or East Coast feminists to rattle on about how much they want boys and men to express themselves, and then utterly shame men for coming forward with their emotions. Obviously, I can't prove this statistically; I've just seen it happen
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" men should show emotion but only if it's emotion that they agree with." That's a wild generalisation. How about "men should be free to show other emotions than anger and hatred" - the traditionally acceptable emotions for men.
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