Without an Anchor: Ways Gender-Privileged Men Can Challenge Sexism
(This list will be forever in-progress. Please add on as you see fit).
- Challenge sexist jokes, such as dumb blonde jokes or jokes about rape.
- Avoid using words such as “bitch”, “ho”, “slut.”
- Recognize when you “zone out” when women are speaking, when you value a man’s opinion…
“Recognize that while some women do hate men and do discriminate against men, that this sort of discrimination occurs in isolation, while sexism against women is backed by centuries of literature, scientific discourse, power/knowledge, philosophy, media representations, “common sense” discourse, etc.”
Exactly why ‘reverse-sexism’ and ‘reverse racism’ charges don’t have any weight. A woman who hates all men isn’t defensible, but it’s not equivalent to literally thousands or years of institutionalized misogyny either.
False equivalence is rapidly becoming my least favorite logical fallacy.
excessively verbal.
