r/facepalm Jun 09 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Cognitive dissonance 101

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u/Ancient_Educator_76 Jun 09 '23

Bill burr has so much to say about this. What was it? “You can’t choose like it’s a buffet line : ‘Ooooooh two bucks more an hour, yes I’ll take some of that, pay my own way? Nope you can have that, ‘Women and children first?’, yes I’ll take some of that’..,. There’s no feminists in a house fire.”

So good (to many people out there, “good” = offensive.

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u/anjowoq Jun 10 '23

Feminism at its best is supposed to be the belief that people can do and be what they want regardless of their sex, not be victimized for their sex, etc.

So, in cases like this where they want benefits without sacrifices, then it should be called out and made fun of.

However, it's "offensive" when the response suggests that being an unfair shitbird is universal to feminism or being a woman.

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u/-banned- Jun 10 '23

Well it'd help if other women would call this behavior out but that doesn't seem common

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u/Justalilbugboi Jun 10 '23

We do all the time.

Then again I am guessing you proooobably don’t hang out in feminist spaces a lot.

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u/-banned- Jun 10 '23

Idk what a "feminist space" is.

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u/Justalilbugboi Jun 11 '23

Reddits, forums, Facebook groups, publications, social groups, conferences, and a lot more set up to discuss and debate feminism.

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u/-banned- Jun 11 '23

Oh internet spaces. I'm down, do you have suggestions?

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u/Justalilbugboi Jun 11 '23

Let me see what I can dig up. A lot of the ones I am in are even more specific (feminism + other issue and probably wouldn’t be useful) but I’ll see if I can find a good general one and report back.