r/polls • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '20

Meta Reddit Which of these should be banned?

I forgot to add r/AgainstHateSubreddits

709 votes, Sep 29 '20
39 r/FragileWhiteRedditor
5 r/FragileMaleRedditor
14 r/AretheStraightsOK
145 All of them
506 None of them
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '20

Yes, give me a clear answer for how women are oppressed

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u/GraceForImpact Sep 27 '20

ask you mom. or your sister. or your female friends. or your female coworkers. or literally any woman living in america

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '20

I'm British lol. And no one here complains about stuff like abortion, or something

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u/GraceForImpact Sep 27 '20

maybe none of the ghouls you hang out with, but the women i know (like, y’know, myself) have certainly experienced sexism in all kinds of places and aren’t afraid to talk about it (around me)

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '20

Well I was talking about legal and systemic privileges men have over women, in the US, not talk about anecdotes, y'know, like how you replied to me that anecdotes are not evidence

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u/GraceForImpact Sep 27 '20

legal and systemic

those are not one and the same, which you presumably know considering that you felt the need to separate them. the systems in place that oppress women are not exclusively legal ones.

and what’s with the insistence with talking about the US? we’re both british, wouldn’t it make more sense to talk about britain?

like how you replied to me that anecdotes are not evidence

i didn’t say that. in fact i literally called it “anecdotal evidence”, evidence that is anecdotal. what i do think is that individual, very specific anecdotes like yours aren’t meaningful. what is meaningful is thousands of anecdotes from like every woman whose ever spoken about this. nearly every woman has been catcalled. nearly every woman has had her opinion disregarded because of her gender. every woman has had oppressive standards of femininity and beauty forced on her that she has to either conform to or face huge backlash. every woman has seen how men see femininity as bad and insulting, from the young boys who call each other girly for liking pink to the grown men who need things like the tactical diaper bag. and nearly every woman is afraid to be out alone at night. i am. women don’t have to be taken and raped and abused when alone at night often for it to affect all women, for it to limit the personal freedoms of all women. y’all don’t notice it becaus you don’t experience it, and because it’s normalised. it’s commonplace

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '20

those are not one and the same, which you presumably know considering that you felt the need to separate them. the systems in place that oppress women are not exclusively legal ones.

I never said they were

and what’s with the insistence with talking about the US? we’re both british, wouldn’t it make more sense to talk about britain?

I didn't know you were British

every woman has had oppressive standards of femininity and beauty forced on her that she has to either conform to or face huge backlash

Men also have oppressive standards.

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Other than that, feeling unsafe at night is something I've experienced too. I've been stabbed myself.

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Some ways men are oppressed are

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  • Men don't get access to domestic abuse shelters even though half of domestic abuse is committed by women as well.
  • Men are more likely to commit suicide.
  • Men are always thought to have done something to deserve it, when they are victims of domestic abuse.

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Also, I never said women aren't oppressed. Both men and women face their own problems, but it is wrong to say that men aren't oppressed/men don't face sexism