Rex Kerr
1 min readMay 19, 2024

--

Yes it was.

John: men should care about each other, but it’s also true that women should [...] Many people have compassion on women when things get a little tough for them. [...] what I don’t get is how a lot of women continue to pretend that it’s only women who have it hard under this so-called patriarchy and who beat down any men who have a hard time in this society, as if it’s their fault that they can’t hack it because “it’s a man’s world”

You: So, what should this generalized female caring for men look like?

John: simply put, to not expect men to more easily shrug things off more than women, nor to be harder on certain people just because they are men

You: I still fail to see why a specific appeal is made to women, specifically, to care about men, specifically. Not humans. Animals. Life. But men.

John says women beat down men (cops beat down black people) and shouldn't (black lives matter). You ask a clarifying question and offer a bunch of incel/manosphere perspectives (not quoted) which John rejects (above). You then retort with why "care about men, specifically" (why "black lives matter" not "all lives matter").

I do understand that you won't spend more time on this, but I also understand the argument that you made and throwing a variety of negative ascriptions my way doesn't change that, nor should it dissuade me, any other reader, or you, from noticing the form of the argument.

--

--

Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

No responses yet