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  • guillem@aussie.zonetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldSnakes
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    9 days ago

    You’ll see lots of different people saying lots of different things. But as far a the post is concerned, nobody made that point.

    Women saying that they don’t feel safe in certain situations because they have no way to know if a guy will end up deciding to rape them is absolutely not the same as saying all men are rapists. They are clearly not, but saying “not all men” (which is an obvious thing) every time a woman expresses her frustration about having to be almost constantly alert just feels like a need to be more offended than worried about the rapey world we are living in.

    It’s the same kind of distraction as “all lives matter”. We all know that all lives matter, but it’s not about that.

    I wish I wasn’t on mobile because the whole thing needs much more nuance.



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    9 days ago

    why say it?

    Who did?

    Y’all

    Who are you lumping me with?

    you guys

    I had a snarky answer but deleted it and am telling you sincerely to stop seeing “the others” as an undifferentiated blob because that brings you nowhere in a discussion and eventually it will harm the way you see the world.








  • They should force the SC pronounce itself as to what tf means that for them. I’d bet they are unable to give a definition of “biological woman” that doesn’t leave out a lot of what they think “true women” are. Carriers of two X chromosomes? Outliers. Carriers of no Y chromosomes? Outliers. Possessors of a uterus? Outliers. Producers of the big gamete (Rowling’s favourite) unless-unable-to-due-to-a-condition-that-is-morally-acceptable? Outliers everywhere. Then those outliers should sue.

    Also curious why they aren’t worried about defining men. They should be forced to unless they want to tacitly be defining men as non-women. Which would be funny, but probably undesirable for them.