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[–]supersmokio6420 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

But he's already made the implication that straight women would welcome it by saying straight men would welcome it. She's saying that just to try to get him to imagine a situation he wouldn't be comfortable with, getting him to understand that other people don't feel the same way he does. Its women he can't empathise with so she can't say "imagine you were a woman", so she gives the closest analogy where he can still imagine himself as man.

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Its women he can't empathise with so she can't say "imagine you were a woman", so she gives the closest analogy where he can still imagine himself as man.

The best way for him to understand womens rights is by being called gay then? So gay men are the closest thing to being both a woman and a man? WTF?

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She didn't 'call' him gay. She presented a hypothetical situation to get him out of his singular perspective.

She literally said 'well you might not like women' only as a response to his apathy about what happened. In what world is that the same as calling him gay?