Geoffrey MillerVerified account

This response is becoming another AOC dancing girl fiasco with every conservative simply making up false narratives about OTHER conservatives. There's an obvious reason why people have criticized the ad: it is a direct extension of patriarchy and toxic masculinity rhetoric. (1)

Just has a bit of a virtue-signal flavor that I think creates an initial hot take, instinctive reaction. Stepping back one can see a bit more objectively.

Replacing any reference to "men" with one to "black men" doesn't make it seem so reasonable. Imagine a corporation politely asking black men not to engage in various kinds of "bad behaviors". I might even get the zucc for even coming up with that example, that's how it is.

Mayhaps we need to run a series of ads asking the staff of @reason not to sexually molest underage girls or traffic black tar heroin to high schoolers. Surely they wouldn’t object to such a worthwhile message with no implication of wrong doing.

We can condemn bad and dumb behavior without linking it to manhood and masculinity. To create this link is to reinforce the indiscriminate attacks that we’re seeing

Because it is holding the position that they need to be told this automatically. Assuming guilt off the bat. How about “women, try not to harass and nag your husbands?”

It’s the mocking of ‘boys will be boys’ which people have different interpretations of