No_Poem_8106 #sexist

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I feel like there's this rhetoric that if a man doesn't make feminism his highest priority he's automatically toxic. You can be a good man, and still treat women like shit. Obviously you should work on it if you do, but my points are that a) men aren't perfect, and b) manhood doesn't revolve around womanhood.

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If you treat half the population like shit, then you are, by definition, not a good person.

WTF did women do to you? Or to the hypothetical good man that can also hate women?

Andrew Taint. Dr. Stuart Ashen.

One is a good man. And Andrew Taint.

You can be a good man, and still treat women like shit.

It’s how he is towards other men that counts, N_P_8106?

“I feel like there's this rhetoric that if a man doesn't make feminism his highest priority he's automatically toxic.”
Bit of a leap between ‘being a feminist’ and ‘being toxic’, isn’t there?

“You can be a good man, and still treat women like shit.”
Oh. No, I guess it’s all or nothing. You’re either voting for women presidents strictly based on their having a vagina, or you’re a rapist.

“Obviously you should work on it if you do,”
Work.
On.
It.
Treating women “LIKE SHIT” is right up there with your tendency to slice the golf ball? An inability to parallel park without 27 adjustments? Or delivering the punchline too soon in telling the joke.

Work On It. Not like there’s a supreme problem if you are a toxic fucking male who treats women like shit. Not as if you ARE the problem.

“but my points are that a) men aren't perfect,”
And we’re back to the binary approach to manhood. Men are good and bad, but ‘being a chauvinistic pig’ is not part of the grading system. Not even a qualifier.

“and b) manhood doesn't revolve around womanhood”
Speak for yourself, asshole. The entire reason I am here is to seek her approval so that she’ll
1) stay
2) help
3) turn my brain to guacamole now and then
4) drive me to the ER when I
…have a heart attack
…separate my Achilles tendon
…stop paying attention and let my gall bladder die
…watch this space, TBD

“ You can be a good man, and still treat women like shit”
Oxymoron

You can be a genius and a misogynist at the same time, like Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Rousseau; the two conditions don't cancel each other out.

But being a "good" man is a measure of how you personally treat your fellow human beings. If you hate half of them, then sorry, you fail.

And I would imagine most men don't appreciate your efforts to make them all look like douchebags.

I feel like there's this rhetoric that if a man doesn't make feminism his highest priority he's automatically toxic.

I dunno, maybe this a just matter of semantics, but while I do consider myself a feminist, I don’t think I “make feminism my highest priority”, I try to treat people equally regardless of their sex or gender or whatever.