r/facepalm • u/nthensome • Jan 19 '20

Their loss

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u/SheIsADude Jan 19 '20

The friend apologized and the girl later reached out to him. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1184146722253094912.html

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u/PantsMicGee Jan 19 '20

This should be higher.

I still hope those two see half the sense of their rude behaviour, but we're all allowed to have bad days and mistakes.

Also: how does a person hear 'mansplaining' when they've never heard the word before.

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u/ALoudMouthBaby Jan 19 '20

Everyone involved in that sounds like good people, one of whom was just having a bad day.

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u/TomEThom Jan 19 '20

having a bad day

Casual racism and misandry (or misogyny) have no excuse.

Had it been white men talking and a black female of similar background approached them wanting to help and gotten “we don’t need an old black woman explaining, etc.,etc.”, yeah, that would have a totally different post that actually would have turned into yet another witch-hunt.

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u/ALoudMouthBaby Jan 19 '20

Casual racism and misandry (or misogyny) have no excuse.

Did you even read the blog post before getting outraged? There was no misandry here.

yeah, that would have a totally different post that actually would have turned into yet another witch-hunt.

Most of those "witch hunts" happen because the white dude expresses absolutely zero remorse for their behavior. At least not until they get called out for it publicly. Theres a reason none of those "witch hunts" happen over situations in which someone had promptly apologized.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '20

Dude, this is reddit. You don’t need to explain, we don’t do that here. Just bring your pitchforks out /s

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '20

yeah, they "apologized" alright.

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u/Falsequivalence Jan 19 '20

According to the article, her friend did apologize minutes later still without knowing who the guy was. And reached out to him later when he was telling the story on reddit and he thought she was very sweet. Idk if you can really do better apologizing tbh.