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In reply to the discussion: Meet the Predators (men need to learn how to recognize and fight rape culture) [View all]TeamsterDem
(1,173 posts)Well, don't feel too bad. You didn't bring up the "men need education" bit, so you were forced into defending the indefensible which of course is why it didn't pan out. The question is why you'd try to defend stereotypes, but that's your cross to bear. Not mine. Just don't expect many to sympathize with your pain the next time someone stereotypes your group in an unflattering way and you find yourself offended, as I'm sure your hypocrisy on the subject won't lend you to much support or empathy.
I do wish you'd stop putting words in my mouth that I never said, though. At no time did I say "my insult is FAR worse than rape," in fact I actually explained that it wasn't even close. You'd know that, of course, if you weren't so enraged at the prospect that equality among the sexes actually means "equal," and that one side doesn't enjoy the liberty to stereotype the other, and weren't so busy trying to deflect attention away from that.
If someone were to discuss genocide (itself a monumentally important topic) and did so by opening "all Germans need education," would you defend that statement too simply because it was discussing an important topic? Or wouldn't you rightly deduce that not all Germans deserve such opprobrium even after WWII, so there would be legitimate room for discussing BOTH topics simultaneously and not pretending as though humans have only the ability to discuss issues one at a time?
Yours is a fool's errand, I'm afraid, for you're attempting to diminish one problem simply because it's not as devastating as another problem. Of course all problems must eventually be resolved or dealt with, and creating one in attempting to address another isn't exactly the recipe for how to achieve that.