Twitter bigot alert. "Feminists are allowed to joke about men. It's allowed." Can men joke about women? "No that's sexist!"

femdelusion · 2013-12-09T17:43:45+00:00

Also:

Laura - I don't really care if some privileged men get their feelings hurt.

Jenny - No, you don't care if what you perceive as privileged men get their feelings hurt. We can't make those judgements. Opinions

Laura - yeah, all men have privilege - if we disagree on that then there's not much point in continuing.

This is no complete yahoo either. Laura Sneddon writes for The New Statesman. It's not that she hates men; she just doesn't care about them. 'Privilege' is the means via which she rationalises her indifference, which would otherwise likely disconcert her. I don't know if you want to call this practised indifference 'misandry' or not, but it's pretty contemptible.

There is a big positive in this exchange though - Jenny O'Henry shows us all how it's done here. She is someone to emulate, I feel.

Ma99ie · 2013-12-09T16:23:28+00:00

That's called: "Applied Feminism."

TweetPoster · 2013-12-09T16:05:09+00:00

@JennyOHenry:

2013-12-09 15:28:57 UTC

The irony of a feminist writer telling men how to behave on a dating app. Don't tell people what to do - only we get to do that.

@thalestral:

2013-12-09 15:31:16 UTC

@JennyOHenry it's called humour, hence how ridiculous it is? And also, male friends kept asking :)

@JennyOHenry:

2013-12-09 15:35:22 UTC

@thalestral How would we react to a man directing this 'advice' at us? He'd be crucified. Your tweets are not all tongue-in-cheek.

@thalestral:

2013-12-09 15:36:05 UTC

@JennyOHenry I am not a man - and there are plenty of other similar articles out there. However, I don't appreciate someone trying to police

@JennyOHenry:

2013-12-09 15:39:16 UTC

@thalestral And policing how men behave on Tinder? NOT COOL EITHER. Do unto others...

@thalestral:

2013-12-09 15:40:28 UTC

@JennyOHenry it's not policing, it's a JOKE. Feminists are allowed to joke about men. It's allowed. I think you are seriously misreading

@JennyOHenry:

2013-12-09 15:42:37 UTC

@thalestral Can Mens' Rights Activists joke about women?

@thalestral:

2013-12-09 15:44:27 UTC

@JennyOHenry women joking about men is NOT sexist and not comparable. This is feminism 101 stuff.

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2013-12-09T18:08:54+00:00

Different rules for me than for thee.

TacticusThrowaway · 2013-12-09T22:37:54+00:00

"We want to be equal to men, except in all the ways that inconvenience us."

Apellosine · 2013-12-09T20:31:49+00:00

So sexism is no longer just discrimination based on sex? Racism is no longer discrimination based on race? Good old newspeak is what that is becoming now, BB is ungood.

anonlymouse · 2013-12-09T21:35:16+00:00

It's telling that she says it's feminism 101. At least she's honest.

TheGDBatman · 2013-12-10T04:54:10+00:00

Don't worry, guys. I'm sure a feminist or two will be dropping by in the near future to let us know that they're not all like that, and, in fact, if they are like that, they're not actually feminists.

germaneuser · 2013-12-09T20:41:09+00:00

Even if you buy into this "privilege"-framing of society, what if a heterosexual white woman hurts the feelings of a gay black man? Does the man "win" because the woman has two privileges over him compared to his one? Or does male privilege count more than white privilege and heterosexual privilege?
Damn, can't somebody give us the formula to the ultimate privilege score?

2013-12-09T20:37:19+00:00

"All animals are equal but some are more equal." --Animal Farm

PierceHarlan · 2013-12-09T17:16:01+00:00

She's an idiot.

2013-12-10T04:27:56+00:00

It's intersectionality, moron. An oppressed class can say and do anything to their oppressors because they're the oppressed class and so whatever they do is justified because their oppressors hold all the power. Oppressors can't be oppressed, so it's all ok and not the same. Feminism 101, you uneducated fool. You need to attend a gender studies class before you can talk about this.

/s

I literally have this argument with feminists every single day. I never get a reason why an 'oppressed' class is given the all clear to belittle and dehumanize their perceived oppressors. Just a repeating circle of 'BECAUSE THEY'RE OPPRESSING THEM, DUH', as if that makes the hypocrisy suddenly vanish.

Rufert · 2013-12-10T00:58:44+00:00

"I'm not interested in people who think reverse sexism/racism/whatever exists."

Fine. Given that she appears to be of Anglo descent i hereby hate her for being an Anglo. Which is fine because, you know, reverse sexism/racism don't exist.

The woman is trash.

theDarkAngle · 2013-12-09T23:29:47+00:00

It's funny how little it would have taken to keep us men happy and prevent the rise of the MRM altogether.

We were fine with fighting all the wars, building all the stuff, doing most of the work, and generally being the lowest priority in terms of health and safety.

We would have been fine with women keeping all their privileges, getting our obligations as optional "rights", and so on and so forth.

All we need to make that okay is a little respect and recognition for what we do for women and for the society.

Instead, feminism demonized and dehumanized us, incarcerated us, and took away or made untenable the few roles that really matter to us (husband, father, provider).

Now none of us are going to stop until men and women are completely equal in terms of rights and obligations, or until we go back to the old gender roles, or until we invent a new assymetric gender binary that satisfies the fairness-test.

Meanwhile, MGTOW's and the like are going to strain society even further through their silent, non-participatory protest.

But it's necessary if we care about equality. It just is.

Boden41715 · 2013-12-09T18:36:38+00:00

If we called out every crazy tweet...we'd be at it for a while. Most people are just stupid.

2013-12-09T19:07:17+00:00

These "twitter feminist" need to be pointed out pretty heavy. Social media needs to rein feminist bigotry in. Good job.

2013-12-09T22:38:50+00:00

Because "privilege" that's why!

Sounds awfully privileged to me!

Jesus_marley · 2013-12-09T18:23:30+00:00

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iluuuuuvbakon · 2013-12-10T09:06:38+00:00

Whenever I see the word "privilege" thrown around non ironically, I dismiss the author as a complete whackadoo just like anyone who uses words like "chemtrails" or "Morgellons".

2013-12-12T10:07:32+00:00

Deleted the tweets, realized she was an idiot. People should send this to her employers.

Redmonkey292 · 2013-12-10T01:11:16+00:00

I don't think they know what privileged means. "They're more privileged than us so that means they're the ones without the right to say anything, while we can say whatever we want! LOOK AT HOW UNDERPRIVILEGED WE ARE!"

circuitology · 2013-12-09T16:46:24+00:00

Gold.

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