Actually, dude, you’re the one being asked to “lighten up”, and you’re man, soooooo…
Again, literally don’t care. Just saw Babale’s comment and was “Heh, yeah…”
Must be a generational thing. You kids should find your own thing instead of resurrecting tired old Boomer lingo. Dig?
Probably.
Maybe you should have come up with your own thing rather than resurrecting tired old Cowpoke lingo, pardner.
Anyways, the Zoomers made up their own lingo, and… Shudder.
Is Skibidi Toilet patriarchal?
No, it’s an example of the great strides we have made in gender equality. Back in my day, it would have been Skibidi Urinal.
I’ll grant that
- It is far more common for terms that are originally or also male-gendered (than female-gendered) to be used in gender-neutral ways (although “bitch” may be an occasional exception?).
And I can accept that
- Sexism has a lot to do with why this is the case.
But I think it is a huge leap of logic to therefore conclude that
- It is sexist, oppressive, and blameworthy to use originally male-gendered words in gender-neutral ways, when those words are nowadays very commonly used in gender-neutral ways, by a wide variety of people.
How about just sexist in origin and possibly oppressive in the long run if left unchecked?
Exactly right. It seems that some people are just naturally contrarian, or just spoiling for a fight for some other reason.
I think that’s mostly a good way to look at it. It’s the definition of microaggression - by itself, it’s a very trivial, stupid thing to get upset about. But add up all the things like this, and it’s worth considering.
Much better than what I originally said. Thank you.
It’s long been the case with regard to gender that female equals special case, leaving male to default to neutral. To what extent should the unique features of being female be so acknowledged? Short of an ahistorical matriarchy so extreme that males were regarded as bizarrely aberrant from the “norm” of being female, how could this have been different?
I recently read the myth of Pandora with my third graders, and I have never empathized so heavily with a mythological character.
Do you have a cite or persuasive argument for this assertion? And is it not evident that, if it is true, it is only because of the male dominance of society?
I don’t know, just spit-balling here, maybe if men made an effort to treat and speak of women as equals instead of as bizarrely aberrant from themselves?
Not seeing a misogynistic problem here at all. 
Well, there’s no hope at the bottom of this box.
In the history of mankind, has there ever been a person who doubted this assertion? And if there has been, what was his argument? You guys are questioning something self-evident here.
Is it misogyny to acknowledge that only women can bear and (in pre-agricultural times) provide milk for infants? And that this reproductive specialization has historically dominated women’s time and energy?
Oh for fuck’s sake. “Is it bigoted to throw out a couple of obvious facts, and then to build a whole fucked up set of cultural conclusions on those? Is it? Is it???”
My point was, to what extent should femininity be regarded as a “protected class” rather than as ghettoization?
ETA: never mind; there’s no winning a debate with the woke crowd here, because they predefine their position as correct and any dissidence from that as self-evident proof of bigotry. I’m out.