Do You Consider Yourself a Feminist? 4
I’ve spent a great deal of my life trying to figure out why men behave the way they do. I am open to endless possibilities but find that there are usually only three explanations (none of which are particularly satisfying)—they’re misogynists, they’re idiots, they’re misogynistic idiots.
I know that sounds harsh.
I KNOW that sounds harsh, but I ask you dear reader, what other explanation is there? And I don’t even just mean with the snippets I’m going to show you today, though these man are all misogynistic idiots. I mean about the men on dating apps in general (and at the supermarket and wherever else men are). Why are they like this?
I can’t even imagine the audacity it takes to be both wrong and loud. But here these men are, most barely able to follow the logic of a conversation let alone an analogy or nuance.
That’s perhaps the most ironic thing about having discussions with men (who don’t identify as feminists) about feminism—they can’t seem to ever make any kind of reasonable argument.
To be so headstrong and hateful about a thing you cannot explain and cannot defend? I’ll truly never understand it.
Imagine defending being a idiot misogynist and your argument is that it’s far worse for women in other countries in the world and like sir, be fucking serious, who do you think is making it worse for those women?
I would bet a thousand dollars this man saw an instagram comment that said #menaretrash and felt so attacked that he completely unravelled and created a 4chan account. It never occurred to him to just be like, ooof yeah a lot of them are, I better make sure I’m doing my part not to be trash and to check the men who are trash. That’s what it’s like when your masculinity is so fragile.
Sorry ya’ll I know this last one is a bit confusing because a huge chunk of the convo is missing between the first screenshot and the second one so let me add context. This man is a cop who has a problem with female cops because apparently their physical testing requirements are less. He doesn’t have a problem with feminism in general he says but all cops (are bad lol) should have the same requirements. In theory, I can agree to that. But then you have to look further into the requirements to begin with. As he says, he’s required to be able to carry 175lbs. and like sir, no one in my life weighs less than 200lbs. so we’re all going to die (WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!) Anyway, and that’s kind of how misogyny and patriarchy work because he makes a potentially valid point that the requirements should be equal but if those requirements don’t actually serve a real purpose what the fuck is the point anyway and also, maybe brute fucking strength is no longer an important ability in a society that would be better off solving most of its problems with more resources and the ability to de-escalate situations. Nice try though, Joshy. Nice try you little misogy-bear.