Despite what this guy thinks

[Shankapotomus]

184. That almost convinced me you were right

At first glance, it does appear the same.

But there is much controversy swirling around the contributing factors for the African American community's problems. One of which is the pressure of racial intolerance by a dominant Anglo American culture. A culture that keeps AA's poor and keeps them far more likely to be harassed by authorities and incarcerated.

There is no controversy to any similar degree swirling around rape. Women are not the dominant culture here and they are not contributing to men raping them. There are no external reasons or excuses for raping someone. Men are under no real pressure by a dominant culture to rape someone while poverty can be a genuine motivator for crime. Men have been able to rape because they have been the dominant culture.

The big injustice that is happening to men in this context is that maybe, as men and women redefine and rethink the gender boundaries, some are not getting laid. Not poverty. Not profiling. Not racial discrimination. Not mass incarceration. Just not getting laid as much.

Women are not oppressing men. They are trying to free them of behaviors that oppress both men and women.

"Do Not Litter" signs do not assume everyone is a litter bug and yet no one has any problem with that message being equally distributed.

In the opposite context, where a message is directed at a certain group and you somehow feel offended because it is aimed at your group, offense is dependent on the relationship between the culture or group being accused and the culture or group doing the accusing.

Is it wrong for the poor to single out the rich as a whole to be more generous?

Is it wrong for workers to rebuke employers as a whole for their stinginess and practices of exploitation?

Is it wrong for the general citizenry to criticized police culture as a whole for its brutality?

Is it wrong for the occupy movement to criticize banks and Wall Street as a whole for all their practices?

Do you have any problem with those messages?

The difference is when the dominant and controlling group that usually sets down the rules and patterns of movement for the subservient culture. Understandably, the oppressed and subservient culture is going to be less receptive to targeted critiques coming from the top down.

To a huge extent, African American culture is working within the constraints and limitations laid down under racial tensions by a dominant Anglo American culture.

Male culture, in juxtaposition against female culture, is working under no such constraints.

That's the difference.