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  • leoj@piefed.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldStraw Feminists
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    23 days ago

    this hits it for me, thank you, I came to the understanding above that I had been painted this exact picture when I was younger, but learned better in college.

    I think I was a bit blind to the fact that some people still paint the absurd picture of feminists shown above, I forget how far we still have to go as a species sometimes.


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    23 days ago

    totally agree and this experience does make sense to me, people paint feminists very broadly and stupidly - personal anecdote I remember being blown away in college that being a feminist could simply mean supporting the right for women to vote, have equal pay, ect.

    I had heard terms like “feminazi” growing up, so the picture in my mind was more similar to the comic than I think I initially realized when reading it.



  • leoj@piefed.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldStraw Feminists
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    23 days ago

    Yeah I don’t understand that either, but thank you for the explanation!

    Ok so further simplifying, Straw man fallacy is per wikipedia, the refuting of an argument by refuting a different argument that is not part of the original context, and failing to recognize the distinction.

    So here, people refute feminists by using the stawman of them wanting to blow up the earth / being extremists? I feel like something has to come back to training bras, like societal expectations of underwear for women is the argument, but then the straw man is radical feminism?

    Goddamn I really am not getting the humor in this one. I’m not trying to be obtuse or overly PC, I really enjoy comics and just want to understand the humor because it seems really abstract to me.





  • leoj@piefed.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldDivide & Conquer
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    2 months ago

    I never intended to posit my comment as encompassing all human wants and desires, but I do believe I have touched on the “basic bill of rights” that most people would agree on.

    Tax the excessively wealthy.

    I’m not an economist, so I won’t sit here and give a number of what level of wealth should be taxed, but I think it fits under “I know it when I see it”

    If you’re buying multiple vacation properties, if you own a yacht or a private jet, you’re probably it.