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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In this Slate article on September 24th, and in many other mainstream media reports at the time, Kavanaugh was criticized for being "too robotic", sharing "too little emotion". > The most alarming thing about Monday’s interview, aside from Kavanaugh’s robotic repetition, ...
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So, this fits a central
#feminist critique of men: that they don't show enough emotion. Time and again, I have heard the importance for men to be outright and forward with their feelings, so the natural feminist response should be to applaud Kavanaugh for showing emotion, right?1 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
Wrong. A man accused of sexual assault at the eleventh hour isn't allowed to be angry, or mad? He should be shamed for it? So says the reprehensible Slate. > it’s laughable, certainly, to anyone who has had to live with an unstable and angry man.https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-hearing-angry-shouting.html …
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You can't tell boys and the men they become, "it's ok to be angry!", "you don't have to be bottle it up!", "just tell me how you're feeling!", and then turn around and scream, "IF YOU'RE ANGRY, THAT MEANS YOU'RE UNSTABLE!!!" Create a consistent moral standard or stop preaching ¶
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Replying to @VaetanThought
You can't draw conclusions about how men in general should behave from how Brett Kavanaugh behaved in a TV interview or the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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I'm not drawing conclusions about how men should behave. I'm drawing attention to the feminist double standard that men should show emotion but only if it's emotion that they agree with. Take circumcision instead. Many (not all) American feminists say they want (1/2)
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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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Replying to @VaetanThought
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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