I’d rather we explore each other’s ideas in real time, rather than assign a label to it and assert you know what’s going to happen in advance.
People are really bad at this. I try to be better about it and really be open to what the fuck people are saying and thinking without assuming too much.
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“Some girl asked if I sold drugs. So I asked her if she sold slaves.”
“you cannot be sexist towards men”
“you cant be racist towards white people”
okay so either
- the guy’s headdesking because he’s a white man and he’s shedding white man tears of privileged white man pain</3 and this is just an amusing post that i like
or
- the OP doesn’t agree with the above statements and is therefore headdesking, in which case
no.
sexism and/or racism = prejudice + power
in society the white cis man is the most powerful
so although a person of colour, or a woman, may be prejudiced against white cis guys they truly cannot be sexist or racist towards the men because they do not have the power part — these different groups occupy different social positions, and unlike the others, the white cis men are not systematically oppressed
You could make a very good point for power being a prerequisite of discrimination. But then you must also realise that power does not only exist at the highest levels, even in countries with relatively small-sized states such as the U.S. or the U.K. So yes, it is indeed possible to be sexist against men, and I see no reason to believe this is something that only happens in Scandinavia.
(via granthaire)
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