Well, gosh, sorry. I’ll just take my silly, uninformed opinions of what life is like being a woman for the past 38 years of my life, and stuff them, shall I?
Thanks for mansplaining sexism. Now I know and I won’t make the mistake of having a view, informed by my subjective experiences when you are in possession of a more objective world-view that objectively describes facts on the ground. I mean, I seriously don’t understand being a woman and prejudice, because clearly I’ve never been subjected to it, but rather I’ve subjected countless men to prejudice by existing.
There it is. The vitriol is palpable.
Mansplaining is a great and fun phrase, when used correctly. I never came close to explaining or discussing sexism in any way. Nor did I ever say anything about your life or world view. But, you have a narrative you want to push so you push it without regard to what’s actually going on. You’ve resorted to snark in response to someone pointing out that you behave like a bigot and display prejudiced attitudes towards your fellow human beings.
I said you were uninformed yes, but only in the context of responding to you saying I personally do not know how sexism works. You have conflated me saying you are not informed enough to speak to what I do and do not understand with me saying that you do not know about sexism. Do you see the flaw there? That’s the pre-judgment I’m talking about. That’s the poison you spread.
As far as your opinions go, I’m sure you have experience what you say you have. I’ve never questioned that or tried to minimize your life at all. However, when you reply to one of my posts with snark and the pre-judgment of how you think I feel about silliness and whimsy, then I will certainly call you out for your bigotry and prejudice.
Crossed wires? I’m not referring to anything you said japhroaig.
Because I’m sick of living in a sexist world and being told that it’s a figment of my imagination, when it has an impact on my life.
Yet you refuse to see how calling things women do “silly” can be such. I expressed frustration at the beginning of this apparently pointless exercise, because women are sick of being called silly, and of having our interests called silly, and having our lives picked apart and deemed silly.
Language is part of sexism. How many people talk about women is often a product of sexism. You might not have meant it in that way, but it’s in the culture and it’s in our systems of thought. Calling people silly, especially women, tends to be in the mode of controlling them and denigrating them.
And whether you mean to, or not, you are indeed explaining sexism to me, and claiming that using silly to describe women has no necessarily sexist connotation, but I’m arguing that it often does.
I carry no such proof. I offer the stories of the oppressed, abused, and marginalized as evidence but not of proof.
There is no need to convince me that some people are horrible human beings. I’m fully aware of that. However, what I will not do is assume that because you belong to a specific group you must therefore hold the views and opinions that people have ascribed to that group. That would be prejudice.
Of course not. However, if you dismiss the views of others it does.
Am I the person who said sexism is a figment of imagination or is that a prejudice of yours?
Some are. But you can’t speak for all of them. Among my friends, silly and whimsy are aspects of life we highly value. I do not marginalize someone for being silly, I praise them. Rather than perpetuate the misogynist view that silly is bad, I’ll continue to praise it.
I don’t dismiss her viewpoint. I never have. I abhor her tactic and application of prejudice.
The replies given to this unfortunate event are solid and in my opinion should stay to demonstrate the ignorance of these types of attitudes. However, if @anon61221983 and others would like them all in my digestive track, I will oblige. Let me know.
Do what you need to do, our father, who art a luckdragon! I have no problem in letting the comments stand because I don’t think that @dacree is arguing in bad faith, even if I think he’s wrong.
