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When you use the phrase “not all men” – or otherwise buy into the myth of it – you’re giving yourself and others a pass to continue performing the socially sanctioned violence of “masculinity” without consequence, whether or not that’s your intention.
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or maybe they are just saying "Hey, i dont do this thing that youre accusing all men of doing. if i said "all gays are shady and bitchy" and you say "not all gays are like that", its a perfectly acceptable response
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Most of the time, when we generalize and use the word men, what we’re actually referring to is the effects of patriarchy. What we’re actually intending to communicate when we say “men are horrible,” for instance, is “the ways in which men are socialized under patriarchy, as well as how that benefits them and disadvantages everyone else, sometimes in violent ways, is horrible.”
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then ****ing say that. do you honestly expect people to automatically understand and infer that long message from you saying "men are horrible". Instead of saying "men are horrible", you could say "the way some men act is horrible" and then maybe go into detail. What youre doing is a cop out: i could say "muslims are horrible people" but what i actually mean is that "the teaching of islam reinforces intolerance and sexism that often clashes with modern ideas and western society.". like just say what you actually mean.
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And before you come at us with “But that’s generalizing,” it’s actually not. Because it is true that all men are socialized under and benefit, to some degree, from patriarchy.
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absolute statements are absolute. Saying "men are horrible" is a generalization because it makes the interpretation that you are referring to all men since you didnt give a quantity or specify which/what men you are talking about. saying i hate dogs implies all dogs. saying i hate big dogs clearly means i hate only big dogs not small dogs.
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Most of the time, when we generalize and use the word men, what we’re actually referring to is the effects of patriarchy.
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And before you come at us with “But that’s generalizing,” it’s actually not.
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so you admit to generalizing and then say its not?
everydayfeminism is like the worst website on the Internet.Worse than Buzzfeed even.
