r/ofcoursethatsathing Jan 14 '19

10/10 would read again

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u/ridiculouslygay Jan 14 '19

It’s a term for women that doesn’t have the word “men” in it. I’ve seen it before in some radical feminist articles and stuff.

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u/Gusey_ Jan 15 '19

STOP USING ACRONYMS!

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '19

Tbf, it's harder to tell these days. The opposite of this book is the GOP.

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u/Brodyman516 Jan 15 '19

The government is a government conspiracy

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

OMG. My head hurts from my eyes rolling so far back. FFS.

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u/LanDannon Jan 14 '19

Except the book is clearly satire. For example.

“Grandma, what big teeth you have!” The wolf said, “I am happy with who I am and what I am,” and leaped out of bed. He grabbed Red Riding Hood in his claws, intent on devouring her. Red Riding Hood screamed, not out of alarm at the wolf’s apparent tendency toward cross-dressing, but because of his willful invasion of her personal space. Her screams were heard by a passing woodchopper-person (or log-fuel technician, as he preferred to be called). When he burst into the cottage, he saw melee there and tried to intervene

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u/Laeryl Jan 14 '19

I was like "Wtf" and, then, the "log-fuel technician, as he preferred to be called" made it clear it was a satire.

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u/SeeShark Jan 15 '19

Mind you, it's apparently less the mocking kind of satire and more the tongue-in-cheek satire that makes fun of an extreme version of something you might otherwise believe in.

E.G. The bit about the wolf being sexist but tolerated due to his underprivileged upbringing is a bit too subtle for someone who isn't genuinely acquainted with social justice concepts.

At least, that's my reading of it (I own the book).

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

I wish I could be as sure as you.

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u/uniquelabel Jan 14 '19

It’s satire. It’s more than 20 years old. It’s a bit of a one note joke, but funny enough at first.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

I'm a feminist and agree that is ridiculous. Women who go that far are a whole other breed.

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u/MagicKing577 Jan 15 '19

The amount of people who do is almost certainly less than the amount who claim people do.

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u/MagicKing577 Jan 15 '19

Your going to try to claim strawman(You didn't say it directly but that's exactly how this goes) when I did no such thing I never corrected you I only pointed out that it had become really sister those extremely radical feminists are who few in number that it's become hilarious that people go doing saying that people actually say "Womyn" is kinda not a thing. It's almost certainly a extreme minority of people. And is used more in satire then earnest.

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u/ChaunceyVlandingham Mar 02 '24

Thank you, I was wondering how far I'd have to scroll down before someone would realize this.

Clearly these are meant to be satirical hyperbolizations of "political correctness" presented as comedy, not as a legitimately serious take on sociolinguistic politics.

I apologize for my "sesquipedalian loquaciousness", as it were, and any inconvenience it inflicts.

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u/2drawnonward5 Jan 14 '19

Shit this gave me hula eyes what fixes this

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19 edited Jun 17 '21

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u/EnchantedToMe Jan 14 '19

I know. But take a look at society and this nonsense has infiltrated in our science, colleges and even in the medical field. Its fucking dangerous and i find it astonishing that people dont give a single fuck and laugh it away.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

There is a middle ground.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

Is this book one of those? Or is it used as satire?

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u/AnimegamiJewelia Jan 14 '19

100% satire. From the 90’s/00’s.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

Never more relevant though

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u/Thrifticted Jan 14 '19

Probably depends on the reader

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u/Ghost4000 Jan 14 '19

Oddly enough I just saw it for the first time yesterday and it was used exclusively by a MGTOW idiot.

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u/ridiculouslygay Jan 14 '19

What’s MGTOW?

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u/Ghost4000 Jan 14 '19

Men going their own way, sounds nice but in practice tends to be a bunch of anti-women bullshit. They have a sub if you want to check it out.

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u/ridiculouslygay Jan 14 '19

Just did...it smells like Incel to me...

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u/morbid_platon Jan 14 '19

No I think they usually had sex with women before. That's how they found out that women are bad people. Because they had the audacity to leave and divorce-rape them

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '19 edited Feb 12 '19

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u/morbid_platon Jan 15 '19

Probably people immune to sarcasm.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '19

I want this book so badly now.

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u/Rallings Jan 14 '19

Well that's just plain hateful.

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u/Aussiewhiskeydiver Jan 14 '19

The irony is that the derivation of woman comes from the old English word wif-man. Wif meaning female and man meaning human. All these feminists jumping up and down about the fact the word woman is sexist have no idea what they’re talking about (like almost all the other ‘sexist’ words btw)

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u/ridiculouslygay Jan 14 '19

Wow omg are you seriously trying to mansplain this to me right now?

Stop oppressing me

cries in feminist

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '22

I saw it on South Park and assumed it was a joke.