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  • I’ll admit that I only know BLM from first hand experience (not a lot) and the news, so I should not speak on the movement as a whole. But I wanted to use it to illustrate my point.

    if you believe being a man has some effect that means you can’t have something relevant to add to a conversation

    I would not say that this is the problem. More in the lines of whataboutism?
    You want to discuss something and other people (often men in the case of feminism, again, in my experience), tries to whataboutism their counterpart (for example a femenist) to make their counterparts arguments invalid in some way.


    Back to OP’s comic, here is a real world example: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46622772. Emma Knyckare (a Swedish comedian) organized a festival that was “male-free”.

    The Sweden’s Discrimination Ombudsman (DO) said that describing an event as “male-free” breached the country’s anti-discrimination laws.




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    10 days ago

    Is it not more about dicussing their problem, in a space they created for it? Black Lifes Matter is a good example of this. Black people want to discuss their issues, and suddenly all lives matter and what about this and that group?

    This is not saying that other problem does not exists or are any less real or problematic, but instead they someone should be able to talk about their perceived problem without being forced to include someone else’s problem. Those people with those other problems are just as welcome to have their own discussions.