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There's a much more obvious title I could have used here, but I do want people to click on the thread.
(Have a read of the OP and try and guess to see which title I could have gone for
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So one of the things I do remember picking up from a feminist writer online that I actually found very useful (as opposed to the usual litany of tripe they often come up with) was the notion of gender (and race) swapping pieces of writing, or statements.
If you flipped the gender of a statement about "women" or "black people" to "men" or "white people" respectively, and it sounded like an unfair generalisation or a stereotype, then it was a suggestion that you were being sexist/racist.
There's a rather interesting new subreddit called /r/menkampf - and they've been doing some entertaining experiments with this notion of swapping terms out.
In short, they swap terms like "men" or "cismen" to "Jews", and terms like "women" to "Aryans".
The results are rather interesting.
As an example:
This is not dredged up from some random tumblrite either, this is the swapped form of an excerpt from this article by feminist journalist Jessica Valenti.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/13/feminists-do-not-hate-men
Note: Some of the swaps don't scan brilliantly, that's because it's being done by a recently developed plugin. Oh, and the Firefox version was censored off their plugin marketplace, because people got offended, the usual nonsense.
Mozilla approves Nazi-themed, anti-feminism Firefox extension [Update]
Isn't it kind of a problem that the attitudes espoused by some quite noteworthy feminists in the public are virtually indistinguishable from some other quite nasty prejudices?
(Oh, and to anyone still playing, the obvious choice of title here would be "Feminazis". This is one of the few times I think the term actually vaguely applies
)
(Have a read of the OP and try and guess to see which title I could have gone for
)So one of the things I do remember picking up from a feminist writer online that I actually found very useful (as opposed to the usual litany of tripe they often come up with) was the notion of gender (and race) swapping pieces of writing, or statements.
If you flipped the gender of a statement about "women" or "black people" to "men" or "white people" respectively, and it sounded like an unfair generalisation or a stereotype, then it was a suggestion that you were being sexist/racist.
There's a rather interesting new subreddit called /r/menkampf - and they've been doing some entertaining experiments with this notion of swapping terms out.
In short, they swap terms like "men" or "cismen" to "Jews", and terms like "women" to "Aryans".
The results are rather interesting.
As an example:
This is not dredged up from some random tumblrite either, this is the swapped form of an excerpt from this article by feminist journalist Jessica Valenti.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/13/feminists-do-not-hate-men
Note: Some of the swaps don't scan brilliantly, that's because it's being done by a recently developed plugin. Oh, and the Firefox version was censored off their plugin marketplace, because people got offended, the usual nonsense.
Mozilla approves Nazi-themed, anti-feminism Firefox extension [Update]
Isn't it kind of a problem that the attitudes espoused by some quite noteworthy feminists in the public are virtually indistinguishable from some other quite nasty prejudices?
(Oh, and to anyone still playing, the obvious choice of title here would be "Feminazis". This is one of the few times I think the term actually vaguely applies
)
