• BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    That she’s a woman makes it that much worse.

    Why? An army professional were carrying out their duties, and as a result thereof got assaulted by representatives of the leading law and order candidate. The army professional chose not to press charges but still lives in fear of the law and order loving patriots affection for domestic terrorism.

    I don’t see how the gender makes it worse.

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      While I see what you’re saying, it unfortunately does make it worse. As a woman in the military, she already has to put up with enough B.S. My wife retired from the navy over 10-years ago, and still works for the DOD. She still sees and puts up with the sexism and misogyny. For sure, it’s less than when she first joined back in the 90s, but it’s still enough to get under your skin. Add to that the genuine, and well-founded, fear this woman feels at the prospect of being a target for domestic terrorists her own country is too scared to call out for fear of appearing to be “politically slanted,” and it absolutely does make it worse.

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      If I start talking shit to you and push you down, that’s wrong. If go talk shit to your wife and push her down, that’s worse. You don’t attack women.

      I thought that was a universally known thing. Well, unless you’re a republikkklown.

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          I see what you are saying. But no. It’s not the same. Women have been historically discriminated and abused, in backward places like the US they still are. This context of abuse and discrimination does make the attack worse. Not because it is worse for the person, but because discriminated people have less accessibiliry to health and social services they need to recover from being attacked. Because it is harder to get help if you’re not a passing white man in the US, it is not the same to be hurt if you don’t have pale skin, speak north American English, and ‘look’ male, it is worse.

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        Why would it make it worse.

        You attack a man, that’s bad. You attack a woman, that’s bad.

        Baing a man doesn’t justify you being hit.

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          Show me where I said being a man justifies you being hit?

          You won’t, I didn’t say that. I said it’s wrong. I said it’s worse for a man to hit a women. Take your bullshit somewhere else.

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            By saying that it’s worse to hit a woman, you are being sexist. You also implied that violence against men, which disproportionately outnumbers violence against women, doesn’t matter. Saying that it’s bad doesn’t matter when you are creating a sexist double standard.

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            Well, if hitting a woman is worse than hitting a man, then it must mean that hitting a man is not as bad.

            So I can just hit men and say “at least I didn’t hit a woman”. That’s justifying hitting a man for just being a man.

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                Original comment: hitting a man is as bad as hitting a woman.

                Latest comment: proof by contradiction that hitting a woman is not worse than hitting a man if you’re not justifying hitting a man.

                To me, “hitting a man is as bad as hitting a woman” and “hitting a woman is not worse than hitting a man” are equal statements. How is that moving the goalpost?

                “Hitting a woman is worse than hitting a man” is just sexism.

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          You attack a man, that’s bad. You attack a woman, that’s bad.

          Women are routinely singled out for violence because they tend to be smaller and less intimidating.

          The Groypers targeted her because she was a woman. JD Vance and his ilk don’t consider professional women legitimate. And quite a few of her male colleagues share that view.

          So while picking a fight with a man invokes the angry of all his friends, Groypers feel confident they can single out a woman because her fellows have already left her isolated.

          That’s what’s fucked about this situation.

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        If you come at me, you’ll deal with me. If you come at my wife, then good fucking luck, you’re on your own, I’m not saving you, she’s fucking fierce.

        All jokes aside, if you treat people differently based on their gender, then you’re acting sexist. Just don’t go around attacking people, how fucking hard is that?

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          That’s the thing though, I wouldn’t go after your wife. I guess I was raised differently. I was raised with “you don’t hit women”. You come at me, I’m going to fight back. Your wife comes after me, I’m not going to hit her.

          The Dementia DonOLD staffer must have felt really strong after pushing her. It’s just a shame he gets away with it. If he pushed her, I’m sure he’s beat the hell out of his wife and/or ex girlfriends.

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        You don’t attack women.

        The Redditness is leaking hard when people can read the events in this story and still not understand the implicit misogyny in singling out women for physical abuse.

        I don’t know how we’re ever going to reach any kind of class consciousness in our hateful, violent, vulgar society when a mob of Groypers baring down on a woman is just an acceptable consequence she should have seen coming.

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          According to the DOJ you are making shit up. Men make up over 70% of all violent crime victims. The only one that comes close is SA, and even there men still make up just over 50% of that group. But go ahead and froth and seethe over your precious minority that must be protected since they can’t defend themselves.