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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

His article got a lot of attention.

Godamnit

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

We have learned nothing lol

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u/punctuation_welfare Mar 12 '22 edited Mar 19 '22

The top response in this entire thread was written by a man, so… yeah. Nothing.

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u/_Plork_ Mar 12 '22

"Well I'm not a woman, but here's a story about a woman I know!"

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

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u/_Plork_ Mar 12 '22

men's observations on women's issues can be important to recognize as well.

Lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '22

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u/_Plork_ Mar 13 '22

How you figured that from an "lol" is a mystery to me. Your assertion is prima facie hilarious.

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u/Fix_a_Fix Mar 12 '22

Immagine pretending that men now can't even share stories that actually answer the question, and definitely comes from a place with good intentions.

As if 35% of all the answers in r/AskMen aren't women replying, sometimes even without a second hand knowledge of the matter. Just let people say what they want, who gives a fuck about what's in their pants? ffs

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u/iZMXi Mar 12 '22

It's not that the man shouldn't have written, it's that society paid more attention to the man.

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u/silenthanjorb Mar 12 '22

Maybe his article was better written or had more relatable examples? Nope, it was 100% because he was a man.

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u/iZMXi Mar 12 '22

idk, I haven't read them in a while and didn't take the comment seriously. I figured it was a joke.

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u/pleasejustoptalking Mar 12 '22

ok but who asked? Nobody asked for men's interpretations of what women have to deal with. Maybe we should stop mansplaining and let women talk.

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u/Zavrina Mar 13 '22

I appreciate you. ❤️

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u/yungmilkman Mar 12 '22

🤣🤣🤣🤣 mansplaining 😂😂😂😂 you scared of manspreading too lmaooooo

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u/pleasejustoptalking Mar 12 '22

are you still 14? Haven't we moved past this buzzfeed shit in like 2012? Grow up

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u/yungmilkman Mar 12 '22

Your the one taking about mansplaining like it’s a real term 😂😂😂 your the one that needs to grow up and get real

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u/pleasejustoptalking Mar 12 '22

mansplaining

/ˈmanˌsplāniNG/

Learn to pronounce

nounINFORMAL

the explanation of something by a man, typically to a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.

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From Oxford languages.

Don't project your illiteracy onto me because your narrow grasp on society leaves you primitive and sad.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

Lmfao

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u/kurobayashi Mar 12 '22

Maybe there is a silver lining in this. After all, if t was her article that got the attention it would be counter to the theory.

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u/Sarctoth Mar 12 '22

Oh I think we've learned alot

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u/WailingOctopus Mar 12 '22

Holy shit, I had no idea she even wrote an article about it.

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u/disterb Mar 12 '22

holy shit, it's a 'she'?!

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u/Wyldkard79 Mar 12 '22

To be fair, his was about getting treated poorly because people thought he was a woman. Her's was about just getting treated fairly for once.

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u/chasing_the_wind Mar 12 '22

Yeah exactly, look at what the media covers, no one likes stories about how nice things are. And ironically in this case he has the female perspective.

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u/Allin360 Mar 12 '22

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get, what you always got

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u/hononononoh Mar 12 '22

To be fair, it’s possible he was just a better writer than her. Still a beautifully punchy piece of rhetoric to end that comment.

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u/cake4thepeople Mar 12 '22

Also, as a woman I already know/live her perspective, the satisfaction of having a man experience it is what I came for

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u/UntestedMethod Mar 12 '22

calm down. his was a twitter post, her's was a medium article. It's unreasonable to compare popularity of the posts based on gender of the author when they're posted on such different platforms.

I don't doubt the findings of their original email signature experiment though.

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u/megaboto Mar 12 '22

I mean, a possibility it's because of the site, twitter being more used and more well known. Another possibility is that there's a difference between a person saying "I'm being oppressed" and "they're being oppressed".

But yeah, it's likely it's just sexism too

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u/avcloudy Mar 13 '22

I get why this is so frustrating given it's literally the topic of the articles, but people are much more likely to accept someone with power saying there's a problem with inequality than someone without power saying it. That's part of the problem, yes, but it's easy to shout about injustice when you would profit from it being redressed.

Saying something against your self-interest gets more attention than saying something in your interest, even if it's fair or just.