Why should I be a feminist?

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23 Oct 2016, 11:44 am

It's funny how young people insult each other by saying pretty normal things about which they are in denial. Like calling each other thirsty. I get the point, but speaking from a distance of some years, all young people seem thirsty relative to most of the population.

Then this feminist/white knight thing. Let's unpack it. A white knight defends women, usually clumsily. So, one problem could be that the people using it as an insult want to attack some particular woman on the basis of what they believe about all women. Defending that particular person against a bigot seems like a good thing to me, but I'd want to do it cleverly rather than clumsily. I think the clumsiness matters more, in terms of making the insult effective. The bigots have an advantage, because it's easier to be vicious than clever.

Bigotry is losing bigly this year, and it will only get harder for bigots. We'll have a huge backlash against women, just like we had a lot of new overt racism for the past 8 years, but it's clear which way the arc of history is bending.

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23 Oct 2016, 1:08 pm

GGPViper wrote:

You seem to have an unhealthy and uncritical fascination with typical PUA BS lingo... Perhaps you might consider switching to terms and language that hasn't been excavated from the deepest infested gangrenous cesspools of internet jerkassery?

Oh, come on now. There's no need to be so polite about those places. :lol:

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23 Oct 2016, 3:37 pm

Aaendi wrote:

Alliekit wrote:

I had a look at the link. It was a bit too extreme for my tastes. I don't we should expect men to fight our battles just to support us.

On another note Nice guy (TM) seems like a sore spot for you. Have you had problems with the term in the past

https://m.reddit.com/r/niceguys/comment ... _feminism/

People still are. I keep telling feminists that I don't want sex from them, and that I'm not trying to be nice to them just to get laid, and that I don't feel "entitled to sex" and all that BS. All I want is for them to leave me alone and stop harassing me.

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23 Oct 2016, 9:43 pm

First of all, I didn't "bring it up". It was a response from the reddit thread. Second of all, why the f**k would I need more information? Just so you have more content to complain about?

Third of all, it's pretty freaking obvious you're just using me as a scapegoat. There's no possible way it can be taken the other way around.

Lastly, I have no control over how others treat me. Stop blamming it on me. I can't just "socialize" myself out of the problem. You said it yourself "no one owes you for being nice." See what I mean? I can't just magically make other people stop harassing me just by being nice to them.

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23 Oct 2016, 9:56 pm

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23 Oct 2016, 10:03 pm

It wouldn't be so easy to come up with excuses if I actually was guilty of doing something wrong in the first place.

Why don't you admit that you get angry extremely easily, and you're not even trying to hide it? When I'm mad I at least try to filter it.

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23 Oct 2016, 10:15 pm

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23 Oct 2016, 10:20 pm

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23 Oct 2016, 10:22 pm

Have you ever seen me get banned from wrongplanet 3 times in a row? I'm guessing you probably think it's some sort of injustice that you keep repeatingly get banned here.

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23 Oct 2016, 10:26 pm

LorenzArriola37 wrote:

What, are people just popping out and attacking you like some sort of RPG random encounter?

YOU ARE NOT AS BLAMELESS AS YOU THINK.

Yeah you think of me as some ogre in an RPG that you must hack and slash until I'm defeated.

Nice analogy.

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23 Oct 2016, 10:28 pm

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23 Oct 2016, 10:34 pm

LorenzArriola37 wrote:

And apparently, whenever you take a step outside, people gang up on you and harass you night and day.

Do you seriously believe that so many people being pissed off at you ISN'T because you've pissed off so many people?

People should learn to stop getting angry over tiny s**t.

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23 Oct 2016, 10:36 pm

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23 Oct 2016, 10:40 pm

Because they're like "hey look at this loser, let's kick him when he's already down."

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23 Oct 2016, 10:44 pm

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23 Oct 2016, 10:50 pm

You made an ass of yourself. Deviant art made an ass of themselves. Everything I did was perfectly justified.

You think laughing at someone for not getting laid is justified?

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