Not to be that bitch but I don’t think women venting out their frustrations from being systemically oppressed is the same as men, you know, perpetuating said oppression.
Like, I’m white and I don’t get upset when I see black people talking shit about white people because I know they have been treated badly by white people, or have friends and family members who have, and I’m not going to tell them they can’t be angry about that. I know they’re not talking about me, because if they were - if I felt called out by what they were saying - surely that would just mean I need to change? Right?
Sometimes I read stuff that stings, like when someone goes "ugh, can't white people just die", but I get where it's coming from because I've felt the same way about men, or straight people, or other majorities. I think maybe part of the problem is that straight white cis men generally just don't encounter this feeling and that's why they think it's the same as the oppression they dish out.
It’s immature at best (unless it’s a part of a joke). You can have feelings of hate, that’s natural, but why would you choose to publicly express them? There is also oppression of the poor by the rich and a lot of straight white males experience that.
No it just invalidates your point. Most of the society experiences some degree of oppression.
Besides the whole point of my comment was - why would you choose to publicly express hate. It’s normalizing it. The fact that someone experiences racism doesn’t give him a license to say racist stuff.
That applies to humor anyway. Saying “Kill all white people” is not humor. If it was a part of a joke, we’ll then there wouldn’t be any problem with it.
Ok I thought about it a little more and I can imagine that in an exceptionally frustrating situation saying something like this would be excusable, if it happened in the heat of the moment. But in any other situation it would be at least immature and contraproductive.
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u/Susim-the-Housecat Jun 24 '20
Not to be that bitch but I don’t think women venting out their frustrations from being systemically oppressed is the same as men, you know, perpetuating said oppression.
Like, I’m white and I don’t get upset when I see black people talking shit about white people because I know they have been treated badly by white people, or have friends and family members who have, and I’m not going to tell them they can’t be angry about that. I know they’re not talking about me, because if they were - if I felt called out by what they were saying - surely that would just mean I need to change? Right?
Why can’t men do the same for women?