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11 years ago
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Somebody please help me understand the recent boom of the term "privilege" and how automatically I should be viewed as an obstacle, or someone who should be put in their place, or a superhuman being
I was born a white male in America, and although I feel I reap the benefits of where I live, it's very upsetting to me that I have to suffer under the scrutiny of others without lifting a finger. Lately I've been doing a fair amount more Tumblr browsing, and I love the video game communities and the art and the humor in the most-shared posts, but while browsing every so often I'm hit with explanations that begin with, "This is why I hate men," or, "Take a look at the newest attempt to belittle women by men" or "blacks by whites" or "trans* by binary."
I first tell myself, "Oh, I didn't realize I was doing anything to hurt anybody." I want to read more; I want to educate myself. But in an attempt at enlightenment, I really only get more and more disheartened. Usually these outcries are written by people who don't want change, they simply want to exclaim their hate for a particular group under the guise of petitioning for equality. Nothing that anybody says will change these people's minds -- they're looking for a mob to back up behind them. To tell them that their words are right, that their hate is justified, and that everybody but them is wrong.
To quote the aggrieving post: "if anybody asks me why i hate men, i’m just gonna redirect them to this post.
it’s pretty fucking obvious that men only want to invest in breast cancer research to further degrade, objectify, and jerk off to body parts they already feel 100% entitled to. that’s what is at stake for them. " Link here for a little more context on the post.
I'm sorry, but what the fuck? Do these people listen to themselves? Do they need to condense FIFTY PERCENT of the EARTH'S POPULATION into a nifty little bracket so that they can blame the problems caused by so few on so many? Is it really so safe to assume that because I'm physically male, the only reason that I would ever donate to a breast cancer cause is because it somehow PUTS WOMEN IN THEIR PLACE? Not only is that disgusting, but it's absolutely insulting to think of anybody that I've known or that I've cared for who has suffered from breast cancer, died from it, had scares from it (as my own mother did)... And yes, you could say "Well
atma505, then you should have been exploring the blog of someone who refers to herself as a 'man-hating lesbian with unpopular opinions'... But I wasn't! Nearly fifty-thousand people have either "liked" this post or shared it on their own blogs! I couldn't get away from it if I tried!
it makes me burst out into tears!
Is this what people are referring to when they warn you about triggers on this site? Because if so, then I suppose I've discovered mine, and it's these so-called "warriors" of social justice
maybe I should find somewhere else to share pictures of video games
I was born a white male in America, and although I feel I reap the benefits of where I live, it's very upsetting to me that I have to suffer under the scrutiny of others without lifting a finger. Lately I've been doing a fair amount more Tumblr browsing, and I love the video game communities and the art and the humor in the most-shared posts, but while browsing every so often I'm hit with explanations that begin with, "This is why I hate men," or, "Take a look at the newest attempt to belittle women by men" or "blacks by whites" or "trans* by binary."
I first tell myself, "Oh, I didn't realize I was doing anything to hurt anybody." I want to read more; I want to educate myself. But in an attempt at enlightenment, I really only get more and more disheartened. Usually these outcries are written by people who don't want change, they simply want to exclaim their hate for a particular group under the guise of petitioning for equality. Nothing that anybody says will change these people's minds -- they're looking for a mob to back up behind them. To tell them that their words are right, that their hate is justified, and that everybody but them is wrong.
To quote the aggrieving post: "if anybody asks me why i hate men, i’m just gonna redirect them to this post.
it’s pretty fucking obvious that men only want to invest in breast cancer research to further degrade, objectify, and jerk off to body parts they already feel 100% entitled to. that’s what is at stake for them. " Link here for a little more context on the post.
I'm sorry, but what the fuck? Do these people listen to themselves? Do they need to condense FIFTY PERCENT of the EARTH'S POPULATION into a nifty little bracket so that they can blame the problems caused by so few on so many? Is it really so safe to assume that because I'm physically male, the only reason that I would ever donate to a breast cancer cause is because it somehow PUTS WOMEN IN THEIR PLACE? Not only is that disgusting, but it's absolutely insulting to think of anybody that I've known or that I've cared for who has suffered from breast cancer, died from it, had scares from it (as my own mother did)... And yes, you could say "Well
atma505, then you should have been exploring the blog of someone who refers to herself as a 'man-hating lesbian with unpopular opinions'... But I wasn't! Nearly fifty-thousand people have either "liked" this post or shared it on their own blogs! I couldn't get away from it if I tried!it makes me burst out into tears!
Is this what people are referring to when they warn you about triggers on this site? Because if so, then I suppose I've discovered mine, and it's these so-called "warriors" of social justice
maybe I should find somewhere else to share pictures of video games
some of these comments are making me cry
It's kinda like Myspace-meets-reddit-and-4chan Unchained
and as for people like that, they're kinda the golden reason I generally dislike feminists, unfortunate for those that truly understand what the term means and stands for, but I honestly think the reputation of the word, like communism, is utterly destroyed, and they should move on to trying to figure out another title to describe themselves under.
the word "feminism" does nothing now but incite negative connotation.
Anything to so radical of a degree is only going to cause defensiveness and shouting matches in 99% of situations, and yet it's the noisy, vocal majority that gets their points heard :\
You must not engage them
You must not engage them
You must not engage them
See one? Ignore it. It's a troll gone bad - they have brainwashed themselves into beliving the shit is as bad as they think it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLE.....g_mXx0quUju0Og
You got to me a bit late in this case but the promise from this point is to cut all ties :I It does feel that way, yeah
weed's legal in parts of the States now
got a feeling it's stronger than that, though!
i guess a lot of men dont know how to deal with their loved ones after theyve gone through breast cancer. there are stories of guys leaving their wives after a years of being married to em, just cus theyve had to have surgery to remove one of their breasts. some people are kinda fed up with that, understandably so. when things like this pop up, it makes sense to me that some people find it condescending because of the amount of people who only value women who have a normal body.
but the way she demonstrates these issues to people, it's just, it makes me not want to get behind the problem, which makes me feel horrible
She presents it with such hatred and discourse, and with this agenda to smash men under her heel, it makes me sick that anybody could be so uncaring of such a massive amount of people after the efforts I and others have made to patch everybody together
but i guess i feel that its isolated enough to just not give it any attention. they have their own method of going about something, and if its full of anger toward people (not that i can really blame them, things can be pretty shitty), its not really something i wanna get behind either. i dont think id be welcome anyway for some of these groups ahah
its complicated because i dont think people as a whole are bad, i think that with proper framing, people can be pretty great. yet at the same, in another frame of mind, people can be pretty shitty! i dont like generalizing at all, but sometimes you have to consider external pressures that society places on people that make em behave a certain way. i think that in their mean and aggressive behavior, that what they are trying to stamp out.