I Can Be Just As Capable. Let Me.

Re:I Can Be Just As Capable. Let Me. by anewguy on Monday June 18, 2012 @11:09PM (#4130055)

It's not victim blaming per se. When a male has a problem, he is trained to keep it to himself. If he shares it with anyone, he is most likely told to suck it up and fix it. To live a male existence is to live without sympathy. It is little wonder that we have little sympathy for anybody else. When someone comes to us with a problem, we respond with the only advice we have ever been given - fix it.

When you are a male, every shortcoming, every bad situation is chalked up to your own personal inadequacy. There are no social forces to blame anything on.

Maybe it makes us stronger. Maybe it makes us dicks. Maybe a bit of both.

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Re:I Can Be Just As Capable. Let Me. by king_jester on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @10:55AM (#4132107)

This is completely and totally untrue. You get tons of support living as a male when you encounter life problems. People readily sympathize with men when they describe issues in their life and a lot of discussion and depiction about bad situations revolves around male perspective.

How else could a tread about a woman's experience in gaming journalism turn into a discussion about how oppressed you are as a man? This very thread is an example of how male perspective dominates discussions, even about people who don't identify as male.

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Re:I Can Be Just As Capable. Let Me. by saraid216 on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @05:20AM (#4130914)

Maybe sweeping bitter generalizations are not actually very useful except in pretending to be wise.

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