• Demdaru@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Lemmy: MISOGYNY!

    Meanwhile, me, a dumdum: Damn the author has experienced critically low self-esteem…or the joke is as fun as a rock in the field.

    Like, either it’s self-depreciating/edgy humor or it’s not humor at all lol.

    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I immediately understood it to be a description of severe depression. If a neurotypical person suddenly experiences a low from a period similar to a depressed person’s average day, why is it suddenly misogyny?

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        2 days ago

        Because the depressed person is a man, there are many people who still treat mental illness and emotional trauma as character flaws, but only when men have them, otherwise it’s all about listening and believing. Tl;dr: sexism against men is far more rampant and casually accepted than people think

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            1 day ago

            I’d be more willing to listen if y’all didnt insist on naming your ideological evil after men then wondering why so many are skeptical everything you say, it demonizes half the population.

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              15 hours ago

              Patriarchy? It’s not named after men, it’s named for “patriarch” - it means “rule of the father”. It is very present in many typical households, where a male father figure makes and enforces the rules of the household. This serves as something of a microcosm of society at large.

              I think you are seeing this as some sort of “battle of the sexes”, like women vs. men kind of a situation - that’s not what it’s about, it just has been a historical fact, in most societies, going all the way back to the concept of dowry payments that a “father of the house” makes the decisions, up to and including decisions for women and girls, such as who they will marry, and so on, but in return this means that men have to perform a specific role and have a lot of pressures and expectations placed upon them, which can lead to very harmful effects on men too.

              Feminism is fighting for men and women against a harmful ideology that primarily benefits the men of the ruling class.

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                35 minutes ago

                “It’s not named after men” “rule of the father” what gender is a father typically? I don’t see it as a battle of the semester, it’s a battle for basic human empathy