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[–]billyhaze 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

i was listening to this and came here to see what you guys were saying about it. i am a little disappointed in your comment about men not carrying much about this issue. many men do care about this because they have wives, girlfriends, mothers, daughters, sisters, nieces etc. and they want to protect them from many of the negative effects of this stuff, and many men have been critical of these things from the start, so please don't perpetuate the idea that you are the only ones fighting this and that men are fine with what is happening and dont care about women. it would be a mistake to discount and exclude this massive population of people (men) that are on your side.

[–]Elysian 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I for one do not discount this, I think it's more that this doesn't affect men as much as it affects women. So naturally they don't care as much. Not that they don't care at all, just that they don't care as much. They also may just not "get" the real issues.

I was talking to my husband about this yesterday and he asked why women hate being called a "uterus haver". It's because we're constantly reduced to our sexual characteristics. It's demeaning and sexist and just utterly horrible. I asked him whether he would care about being called a "penis haver", to try to get him to empathise, and he just didn't see a problem with it. Who cares? While I deeply loathe being reduced to my sexual organs. Dehumanised, like women frequently are.

That's all. I welcome male allies, like in the now-defunct gendercriticalguys.

[–]yishengqingwa666 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Uh huh.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lol. The above troll just posted a rant against us “you people”.