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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
The headline is clickbait, of course. If she had framed "blanket hate" as something more realistic like, "loss of the benefit of the doubt in every single instance," it would be more palatable.
People absolutely cannot stand to be lumped in with others on these types of generalizations.
"You are privileged." "What? Me? My daddy was a coal miner's daughter and I grew up on nothing but knock off Welch's grape juice.
"Cops support cops no matter what." "What? My uncle is a cop and he is the least racist cop ever. In fact, he had a black girlfriend in '98!
"It is very hard to navigate the world based on the amount of aggression exhibited by men in all walks of life." "What? I've never assaulted anyone. And I stopped calling girls,* "honey" in '98 when my uncle's black girlfriend punched me in my eye! I'm not the problem!"
"New Yorkers are rude." "What? Fuck you, buddy. I helped a little old lady get the fuck out of my way just the other day. Tell your story walkin'.
I don't understand why people can't listen to something like what was written in the article, understand that she's employing a rhetorical device, remove themselves from the class based on their own behavior, and move on with their lives without dismissing the whole thing. But apparently, that is absolutely impossible.
TM
*This is intentional.
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I actually agree with the "hate" concept. There's a credible argument to be made that a good number of women have a justifiable reason to hate men.
Where I think she went full on cuckoo pants is directing men to concede all positions of power to women. This is loony because:
1. It assumes women cannot ascend to positions of power adequate to undo "male privilege" unless men give up positions (which makes women sound weak and outnumbered); and,
2. It assumes men have an obligation to "turn things over" to women, rather than work with and respect women as equals.
I get that she thinks that male privilege is so woven into society that it cannot be fixed by anything but a female takeover. And that's where it becomes nothing more than value-signaling, as that is never going to happen, which she knows.
The Left and Right are both engaging in a lot of venting. Typically, the Left owns the high road here as their venting is justified and reasonable. I think it unwise to concede that road by becoming unrealistic and absurd in demands like those raised in this piece.
But then, her aim was also to get people talking, and that she did.
