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[–]loveSloaneDebate King 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

It’s not prejudiced to want to have safe spaces. And it’s not prejudiced for oppressed people to want spaces free of their oppressors, be it females wanting spaces free of males or poc wanting spaces free of white people. Females wanting to have male free spaces is not just about fear. It’s about comfort, it’s about equality. It’s about not allowing males to dictate even womanhood. Females have a right to not want to change around males. To not want to compete for female specific opportunities against males. It is ridiculous to say that females are prejudiced for wanting female rights and spaces to remain for them. Was it prejudiced for suffragettes to march and protest to begin with? Because if you don’t think suffragettes were wrong, how is it now wrong for the new generations of females to want to maintain what our mothers and grandmothers and aunts etc fought for? (And lesbians have every right to want lesbian spaces to be for lesbians. Not males. Males can’t be lesbians. Because they are biologically male.)

And poc can want poc spaces because they have the commonality of not being white in a white dominated society. That’s not prejudice. It’s literally wanting a safe space for themselves. It’s disgusting as fuck for you to say that poc wanting to have their own spaces is rooted in prejudice. How out of touch must you be to say that?! I’m fairly confident that you are a young white male who understands nothing about how the world works outside of your bubble. If not, you’re just lost as fuck (and frankly if you’re not white your ignorance is disgraceful) and I hope time opens you eyes.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 5 fun1 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 5 fun -  (7 children)

Fearing that a general set of people will harm you, as opposed to specific individuals, is prejudice. Sorry if that bothers you.

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Didn’t say anything about harm... literally said it’s not just about harm lmao

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

You using too narrow of a definition of harm. If you believe that safe spaces for particular groups exist because of benefits those spaces offer for those particular group, then you implicitly believe that removing those saces by making them more inclusive would constitute a harm.

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So are all of the trans subs on Reddit prejudiced/full of bigots?

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Didn’t use any definition of harm lol what are you talking about? Also didn’t say anything about benefits idk what convo you’re in but it’s not the same as the one I’m in.

What’s the point of a lesbian space if it’s opened up to people who aren’t lesbians? What’s the point of a space for poc if white people colonize it? How is a female space a female space if it’s open to males? You don’t make sense. Opening a designated space to people it wasn’t designated for doesn’t make the space more inclusive. It erases the space. Why are you so worried about what lesbians are doing in their spaces or what poc are doing in theirs? What exactly is the issue in marginalized groups having their own space? I never said it was about harm. You just keep it throwing that word out because you want to make your weird prejudice claim fit somehow. What would a straight male need access to lesbian spaces for? What would a White person need access to a poc space for? What’s the reason? What’s the need? What harm is done to them by respecting other people’s boundaries and spaces?

[–]MezozoicGaygay male 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

How a golf club is a golf club if it open to everyone and it filled with footballists and tenisists, who are busy playing those games on golf field? Are golfists have a prejudice against other sports to not allow other sportsmen in their club?

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So how do we visually detect which males mean harm and which do not? Or do you mean that no woman anywhere is justified in excluding males and should always assume any male is harmless until she is harmed?

[–]MezozoicGaygay male 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Statistics is not prejudice. Biological reality is not prejudice. People feeling comfortable among their own group is not prejudice either.

Gay men, even in todays society, are given bad gaze, or called out. We thought to act in one way or another, with a lot of stereotypes. Having free space from straight people, from their prejudice is not prejudice, it is just space, where we can feel free and not get annoying comments or looks. Same for people of color, same for females.

Your position is victim blaming and you are calling to promote prejudice and to not let people living under prejudice to have their spaces free of it. Which does not feel very good position to stand for and defend.