Re:Feminist video-games talk pulled after massacre threat
by smackfu on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @01:52PM
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> I also think you're implying that the male in your example believes his way is better because he's a man and therefore smarter and all that nonsense
Oh, definitely not. I think the guy usually has no idea what he is doing and it's just reflexive behavior.
Re:Feminist video-games talk pulled after massacre threat
by teamhappy on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @04:44PM
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Fair enough. That's always been true for advice giving though. People usually don't really know what they're talking about and maybe that's okay. Even if the advice sometimes does more harm than good it's certainly almost always well intentioned and that's gotta count for something. Still, I think it's easy to see a double standard in what you said originally and that's just not fair.
Maybe I have to explain myself a little better. For the sake of this argument let's assume literally every time a women has a problem in this world a man talks to her and tells her what he thinks she should do. What exactly would be wrong with that?
I don't want to put words in your mouth but I also think you're implying that the male in your example believes his way is better because he's a man and therefore smarter and all that nonsense. That's just unfair. The irony in phrasing it like that given the context is quite obvious though.