is the man or bear thing rhetorically or optically the perfect feminist meme that is beyond criticism? no.

but is it leaps and bounds better at getting men to understand the material consequences of patriarchy on the physical and emotional health of women than that stupid “kill all men” meme from last decade? definitely.

  • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
    106·
    2 months ago

    if you see “feminists” excusing shitty behavior, call them the fuck out for it. im not holding everything under the banner of feminism infallible and you shouldn’t either.

    but bad feminists don’t excuse you inserting yourself into a conversation women are having about their lived experiences. and that is precisely what you are doing.

    women are expressing that they have been threatened and hurt, and you are stomping in with some vague “NUH UH a feminist was mean once or twice” to shut up those women. this is, and i don’t say this lightly, despicable.

    • beardown@lemm.ee
      12·
      2 months ago

      don’t excuse you inserting yourself into a conversation women are having about their

      You seriously think that a meaningful percentage of Lemmy’s active users are women?

      There are more trans/nb/etc users here than cis women.

      Which means it’s impossible for them to insert themselves “into a conversation women are having”

      • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago
        1. trans women are women
        2. i have personally seen women getting harassed into deleting their comments and even accounts for expressing their lived experience under patriarchy. men literally came into their replies and brigaded them until they were forced to leave. so you are either misinformed or intentionally lying.