Logical inconsistencies I have noticed within social justice over the past few years: a masterpost

Women are strong, independent, and self-determining - Women also need to be coddled, sheltered, and given all the extra help they can get in order to do anything properly.

Patriarchy was created for men, by men - Patriarchy hurts men too for no discernable reason.

All people should be free to express themselves emotionally, despite social stigmas - men who talk about their problems all the time are so whiny and boring, just SHUT UP.

I don’t hate men, that’s a common misconception - masculinity is inherently toxic.

Gender Roles are a social construct, and we must do away with them as a society - masculinity is inherently toxic. Also, let’s make an event to celebrate the feminine.

Gender itself is a social construct - trans people exist and their experiences are valid.

Trans women are women, plain and simple - We have decided to change the word “women” to “wom*n” in case some trans women get offended.

Disability is a social construct - disabled people need to be given ramps, and special considerations.

No, I mean, the fact that people treat disabled people differently is what really makes them disabled - Anxiety, depression, and stress can be just as debilitating as any physical ailment.

You can’t change your sexual orientation - Have you tried women?

Men are creepy and gross, I wouldn’t trust them anywhere near my kids - Pedophilia is a valid sexual orientation.

Men can’t stand it when women are the protagonists in media. That’s why Hollywood never allows films with women protagonists to be made - Wouldn’t this piece of media be so much better if all the characters were women/ trans people/ African?

Anti-Semitism is wrong - The Jewish collective needs to stay out of the safe Spaces on campus because their presence there is inherently Islamophobic.

Cultural appropriation is wrong, because it involves stealing things from other cultures which are sacred to those cultures - Thank god racial segregationism is a thing of the past. Can you imagine if the world were divided up along such arbitrary lines as people’s skin colour, like it was in the ‘50s?



One more that requires a bit more elaboration:

Women are shamed for their sexuality, primarily by men - who also want to have sex with those same women.

(Let me ask you a question. What kind of sense does it make to say that heterosexual men, specifically the kind of men who like to have lots and lots of sex, would shame women for acting promiscuous, i.e. more likely than another given woman to have sex with them? Here’s a thought: Doesn’t it make more logical sense that women, who, in the biological sense, need to compete with the other females for male attention, or at least make sure they receive the most attention from as many males as possible so they can select a mate, would shame promiscuous women the most?

To be clear, I’m not advocating that we blame women for shaming promiscuous women. I’m just giving you a good reason not to blame men, or any generalized group at all. Because if you follow the most logically consistent arguments, then you WILL end up blaming women. And blaming an entire gender for something is wrong, but people don’t seem to notice this unless women are the target of it.

And ‘men shame women for their promiscuity all the time but also want to have sex with them all the time’ argument bugs me because it makes no goddamn sense, it’s infuriating.)





Feel free to add arguments and their logically inconsistent counter-arguments if you can think of any others.

-GCM