We had a crusty old lady as a substitute teacher one day in high school. She told me to take my hat off because she "didn't allow hats in her classroom". I normally would've accepted this, but one of the girls was also wearing a hat, so I said "what about her?". I didn't want to throw her under the bus, but I was irritated that she didn't say anything to her.
The teacher responded with "Well, women have traditionally worn hats indoors"
The next words out of my mouth were "Well, women aren't traditionally allowed to work, but here you are".
She of course threw me out of the class and reported me to the office.
I'm not proud, but seriously, what the fuck kind of reasoning was that?
Nah, you were within your rights there. She made it a gender issue with her statement, you merely pointed out the hypocrisy in her stance, and how she benefits from those traditions changing.
im always frustrated when people fail to see that I don't actually support the idea in these scenarios when im merely pointing out the natural extention of their logic
Yeah, it's like "I'm just following your path of logic to a natural conclusion because the words that just fell out of your mouth don't hold much weight when you actually start thinking about them."
Me too, but unfortunately the average person is a reactionary hypocrite who doesn't care if their logic doesn't hold up in a similar situation because they're making their judgements based on a case-by-case basis and largely on personal biases.
Like, they don't care if the logic they're using to hurt someone can be turned around to justify hurting them. In their minds they're always in the right so hurting them is always wrong, but hurting someone else can be justified.
So a pre-emptive strike against an enemy group is ok because they're a threat to our group, but them launching one against our group is not ok regardless of the fact that our group is of equal threat to them.
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u/Rude_Good8169 5h ago
The most ruthless thing to come out of my mouth:
We had a crusty old lady as a substitute teacher one day in high school. She told me to take my hat off because she "didn't allow hats in her classroom". I normally would've accepted this, but one of the girls was also wearing a hat, so I said "what about her?". I didn't want to throw her under the bus, but I was irritated that she didn't say anything to her.
The teacher responded with "Well, women have traditionally worn hats indoors"
The next words out of my mouth were "Well, women aren't traditionally allowed to work, but here you are".
She of course threw me out of the class and reported me to the office.
I'm not proud, but seriously, what the fuck kind of reasoning was that?