I didn’t mean for this post to cause a bunch of arguing in the comments =(

I thought this was just some gallows humor (e.g. “Everything’s lovely except that I have to fear for my safety all the time”) type of shitpost that sounded similar to comments I’ve heard from women irl a lot.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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      2 days ago

      Where is the mention of the victim’s gender in this meme? If there was a man in a picture, not a woman, do you think the text would be less true? Do you feel comfortable walking somewhere at night when some strange man starts walking up to you? I sure as hell don’t despite my possession of a penis.

      • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I mean, if I were to throw out lines such as “if only women didn’t demand so much”, I’d be guilty of misogyny regardless of who I implied the demand was levied against.

        The misandry here is “men love to commit murder”, not the implication of who is murdered.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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          2 days ago

          Yes, if you divorce part of a sentence from the context in which it was placed, it does become bigoted.

          I assume you don’t think this person means every time they have ever walked anywhere at night in their entire life when they talk about night walks, but you assume this person means every single man. It shouldn’t be necessary to have that explained to you.

          Also, you don’t seem to understand the difference between punching up and punching down.

    • Lunar@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      ah yes misandry is when women don’t just shut up and accept disproportionate violence from men

      • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Misandry is where you see men as the problem - nothing more or less. It’s easy to quote stats, it’s much harder to address the real issues underneath.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          1 day ago

          Misandry is where you see men as the problem - nothing more or less.

          Right, so literally nothing about the post you’re replying to. Cool.

        • Lunar@lemmy.ml
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          2 days ago

          i don’t see men as the problem, i see patriarchy as the problem. patriarchy causes disproportionate violence from men. observing the consequences that stem from larger social issues and how they affect you personally doesn’t mean you deny the existence of the said issues. calling it misandry only serves to downplay the effects of those consequences and ultimately downplay the existence of their source.