Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days agoOh, hold on, I am absolutely not against bullying these people mercilessly. I’m probably meaner to them than you are, if I were just guessing.
The thing that I don’t want people to do is treat a cultural critique as if it were a personal one. A lot of the pushback that you’ll see from the fragile male types is just manifested insecurity over the fact that they think they can’t go up and talk to a woman without her splashing her drink in their face. The critique is just describing the currents of the ocean, but they will treat it as if it were a personal attack because what you’re really arguing with is their hurt feelings.
natecox@programming.dev 2 days ago
I don’t agree with passing off their behavior as “cultural”. I am ashamed of men because some of them are reprehensible and some of them want to ignore how reprehensible they are or explain it away.
I choose to embrace feeling deeply ashamed at how we’ve allowed the worst of us to form the general opinion of us and vocalize that routinely.
Fuck their insecurities, if they want to be able to go up to a woman without “getting her drunk splashed in their face” maybe they should focus harder on fixing the problem so women can generally feel safe with us.