Wow, that mohawk IS cool.
Also, let's just agree that it is an awful shirt. I wouldn't be seen dead in that thing.
Wow, that mohawk IS cool.
Also, let's just agree that it is an awful shirt. I wouldn't be seen dead in that thing.
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You seem to assume that once you're in a group, you're mandated to follow whoever leads that group no matter what. It doesn't work like that.
Also as far as Animal Rights, it's a little jarring to have someone push a cause they have a personal investment in, yet casually dismiss another they do not with phrases like, "a comparison to animal rights is pointless because animals cannot actually communicate their own experiences."
Which implies that any oppression where the people being oppressed aren't able to speak out about it is pointless to compare to. Mainly because those are the most important cases of all.
Read the above in a Tachikoma voice.
Except I wasn't doing that. It is really this simple:
Animals cannot communicate their experience of cruelty so their opinions cannot be invalidated or dismised, therefore comparing men talking about what is or isn't sexist to men talking about what is or is not animal abuse cannot be a valid comparison.
Women can communicate their experiences of oppression and they are in a better position to understand them than a male who does not experience it. So therefore men should NOT be able to speak over women on issues of sexism. Their opinions are not as important as the lived experiences of the oppressed.
It's that simple.
I'm also not saying men can't venture an opinion, I'm saying MEN SHOULD NOT SPEAK OVER WOMEN. Men are more than welcome to discuss how the patriarchal values of our society impacts them for example.
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I certainly wasn't trying to speak over you. You do know more about being a woman than I do, this is biological fact. But you can't just dismiss what I say either, especially when largely I am agreeing with you.
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The patriarchy recently (yesterday) just pushed me out of a promotion, for example, because they went over me and my manager's head and hired an outsider to take the position.
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We are all perfectly capable of coming across as abrasive at times especially when it relates to issues that our very personal. EG's approach just happens to come across as more 'in your face' and unapologetic then others. There's nothing inherently wrong with this approach but it can elicit emotionally charged responses.
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Okay. First off, I'm sorry I missed the point of your post, it was worded a little too concisely to really get that across, so thank you for clarifying.
However, I don't think anyone was talking over the women here, merely...against. I don't think it's really possible to talk over another person on the internet, aside from using ALLCAPS, but maybe that's just in how I read posts.
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To a degree, but a woman designed that shirt, so we need a metric beyond just a member of the affected demographic to pass opinion on it.
Hence why, when a whole bunch get annoyed over it, it's worth listening to in order to find out how/why.
Read the above in a Tachikoma voice.
As to hunting, we eat EVERYTHING we kill and we do not kill more than we need and we take every possible measure to ensure the animals do not suffer.
Also I have never claimed to speak on behalf of all women.
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