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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I’m gonna be honest, I read “Traditional gender roles are abusive 100% of the time,” and didn’t bother to read anything else. Maybe that makes me the bad faith guy, but I feel like once I’ve taken one bite of the dinner and it tasted that obviously wrong, I don’t need to just keep eating and hope it gets better.

I just went back and skimmed your whole comment. Okay, so you’re talking about the abusive legal structures that often went alongside consenting traditional roles. Yes, those are fucked, as I already said. If you are against those, I am with you on that, and I am aware that people sometimes call those “traditional” as a way of excusing them. As I already said, that’s not what I am doing and not what I am talking about.

We’re saying, I think, more or less the same thing, as far as what parts are okay and what parts are not. Although you’re still framing it in a way that seems like it’s making this blanket statement about the other grouping that would never be okay directed at a queer or otherwise “friendly” grouping.

Edit: Made less inflammatory

[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I see your points through the semantic fog. You had it at a problem of definitions and it doesn't appear to have gone away. One side defending personal intent and the other highlighting historic institutional malaise. Very little actually discussing, you both just happened to be making adjacent points in the same topic for the most part.

They're right in their analysis of the mores and norms that the system allows, even if their claim of no good people existing under a broken system is absurd.

You ain't in bad faith, it's more exhausting to get pinged by friendly IFF misreadings than extreme ideological opposites nowadays. That whole leftists eating leftists series of jokes applies somewhat.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah dude. Everyone’s just looking for an enemy to dunk on. It’s like “Aha! I got one!” and they get all excited to debunk some kind of imaginary shit that no one involved in the conversation is saying.

[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tbh your comments are all leading with pretty incindiary lines and just casting "dude" onto whoever is pretty fucking annoying, regardless of how much one might argue "it's gender neutral"

And I'm squarely against dunk culture, these are just some friendly requests 🙂

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, you’re not wrong. I tend to use “dude” and “man” and the like and it’s probably not a good idea even when we’re not talking about gender and misogyny specifically.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ooh I kind of want to read the inflammatory one!

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 5 points 4 months ago

Eh. I was trying to keep it productive. Railcar8095 already made in a nicer way the point that I made in an argumentative way and then deleted.