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notquitephil:

endgaem: bellabitch-lestrange: notquitephil: invertedgender: calling a man a “pig” is literally dehumanising how do some people not think there’s anything wrong with that how Because chicks, fillies, birds and bitches never get dehumanised. Those vixens always get away with this kind of shit. Especially the heifers, they’re the worst. What cows. My hobbies include: watching men get dragged. Y’know, because I follow invertedgender and this is arguably one of their most popular posts, I see the responses show up on my dash pretty often. It continues to astound me that the only response people can muster to defend dehumanizing language is “w-well it happens to women too!” Do two wrongs make a right? How does one justify the other? I really just don’t understand the rationalization here. I mean I know this is a website full of angsty teenagers that think they have a grasp of social issues (but continue to prove they really don’t), but you’d think they’d at least pretend they’re more mature than this. This is basic “He hit me so I hit him back!” kindergarten playground logic. And people are eating it up like it was some profound counterargument. Sad. “I mean I know this is a website full of angsty teenagers that think they have a grasp of social issues (but continue to prove they really don’t), but you’d think they’d at least pretend they’re more mature than this.” What a patronising little man you are. This reply to Inverted Gender wasn’t written by an ‘angsty teenager’, it was written by me: a grown man with a wife, a PhD, and a full grasp of the intentions and meaning of the things I write. Inverted Gender’s post appeared to seek to dispel a feminists complaints by changing the genders and pronouns, it’s lazy and ineffective because it reinforces a complete false equivalence between gendered issues for women and those for men. That’s not to suggest there’s no gendered issues for mrnmen, they just aren’t the same or on the same scale. For instance, the use of derogatory gendered language is worse for women and contributes to the treatment of women as commodities. The use of dehumanising language against males isn’t nice, but it isn’t even in the same ballpark. That’s what my reply is about and maybe you’d have understood that if you didn’t approach the world with the assumption that everyone who disagrees with you is just an ‘angsty teenager’

Oh this is too good.

>patronising

>”little man”

I wasn’t necessarily referring to you, either. I was referring to the people reblogging this without question or critique. The fact that you aren’t an angsty teenager, and according to you, a “a grown man with a wife, a PhD” makes it all the more pathetic, as you clearly don’t have as tangible a grasp on what you are saying as you think you do.

Inverted Gender’s post appeared to seek to dispel a feminists complaints by changing the genders and pronouns, it’s lazy and ineffective because it reinforces a complete false equivalence between gendered issues for women and those for men.



What you and every other ignoramus who completely miss the point of invertedgender’s blog fail to realize is invertedgender isn’t making any form of political statement by swapping genders. They’ve stated multiple times that their blog is a social experiment. They often swap the genders and political names of both feminist, anti-feminist, ‘SJW’ and ‘anti-SJW’ posts frequently and indiscriminately. How those are received is entirely up to the person viewing the material on the blog. Invertedgender isn’t evoking their own political views with these gender-swaps, they’re doing it to as an objective look into how people’s reactions vary when the topic of discussion is adjusted.

For instance, the use of derogatory gendered language is worse for women and contributes to the treatment of women as commodities. The use of dehumanising language against males isn’t nice, but it isn’t even in the same ballpark.That’s what my reply is about and maybe you’d have understood that if you didn’t approach the world with the assumption that everyone who disagrees with you is just an ‘angsty teenager’



And my point was that it doesn’t matter whether the gravity of the term affects someone more than another, two wrongs don’t make a right. It’s a cheap justification, and isn’t even really an answer to the topic of discussion. If anything it’s a deflection.

“Calling a man a pig is dehumanizing”



“Yeah well women are dehumanized with language more”



And where do we go from there? A mature response would have been “women are dehumanized with language to a larger degree, however neither is appropriate and we should work to discourage both.”

Your response was reminiscent of a toddler caught in the act of doing something wrong, and responding with “well he started it!”

If you were able to pull your head out of your cavernous ass for more than five seconds maybe you would realize that, but I guess you’re just proof that age and accolades aren’t a measurement for maturity.