• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    so like, i went to this cult university. one of the smaller mistakes of my life to give you an idea. they had this feminists group there. i generally look white and male, and back then i went by this cool nickname that was about my disability (a different disability has coopted it and that makes me grumpy but you know what, we could share. it’s not literally the only nickname what ever stuck to me besides my stage name. just, mine makes literal sense and theirs doesn’t but whatever, i can’t use it anymore anyways) and this group’s leader decided that anyone who looked male was there to trawl for women to fuck and believe me no and doubly no not her. First that’d be an ethical violation, second i don’t really need to say anything beyond that. Anyways, the motion to kick me out of the group was that because of my cool nickname based on my disability, and because i was white and male (even though i only look those things) i needed to go die in a fire.

    now, this cult university does the weirdest psy-ops. like, there are articles in the salt lake tribune about them, don’t take my word for it. i grew up outside the jello belt. my polycule of grandpas taught me real feminism, so something smelled really off about that group, whether it’s just an absolute misandrist pseudo- firstwaver trying to deal with a punkrockabilly third/fourthwaver or it was a cult legitimately trying to turn people away from feminism with the subtlety of a brick.

    i guess what i’m trying to say is, like, there’s some real dipshits out there

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      Yep.

      There are many kinds of feminism… and the pop-feminism of tik tok… yeah I agree, that’s not real feminism…

      But try explaining the entire complex history of feminism to somebody whose only seen the tik tok version of feminism.

      They’ll be very confused and think you are talking about something almost completely different, often to the point of concluding you are lying to them, trying to trick them.

      As ever, everyone is talking past each other, trying to win an argument, not have an actual discussion.