• Cheese_man@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    The sheer amount of violence that women and children are expected to absorb as normal in order to maintain the illusion of a civilized society is honestly staggering to look at.

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      17 hours ago

      Now here’s the fun thing. The undue pressure it puts on men is toxic as fuck too. This doesn’t benefit anyone!

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        7 hours ago

        Men benefit from it. They benefit both from raping people with impunity and from being one of the good ones who doesn’t.

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        9 hours ago

        Yeah, and this is NOT a “blame the victim thing” but women and children get to have pressure to just accept “their place” as the “lesser” but there are probably a fair number of dudes who get a similar pressure to “accept their place” as the better.

        For the benefit of a lot of asshole dudes being able to feel good about being assholes.

        It’s part of why that block of assholes is really pushing back lately against progressive ideals. Because it’s a threat to the idea that “if you are a dude, you can just do it, it’s your place.” Especially as more and more men pull back and realize “I don’t have to be an asshole, I can respect others.”

        It makes the assholes way way more obvious.