There is a Taboo Against Making Statements Which Are Unflattering to Women as a Group; This Discussion Board is Not Evidence to the Contrary

Gravel_Roads · 2026-04-07T12:32:46+00:00

I mean… calling anyone a coward is considered rude.

It’s also obviously inaccurate to say “all women are cowards”, considering how many women are brave (and how many men are cowards.)

Also, you seem confused about what “taboo” means. It’s not just “whenever I talk about how awful women are, people don’t want to listen.”

Weak-Tumbleweed-3796 · 2026-04-07T12:05:05+00:00

You're allowed to say whatever you like but this doesn't free you from other people interjecting and providing their opinion and/ or context to your original statement.

If you generalise an entire group and call them 'cowardly', members of said group will rightfully call out such a generalisation and present their opinion i.e many women go through child birth, maternal mortality is incredibly high and is one of the leading causes of death of women - that doesn't exactly scream cowardly.

You can say that men are responsible for the vast amount of inventions but it is disingenuous to ignore the historical context in which women were limited by systematic barriers. Yet, in spite of this, they still excelled and invented incredibly important things i.e the foundation of WiFi, computer software, stem cell isolation etc.

You're arguing to essentially have the right to say whatever you like without input from others that disagree with you or without others having the ability to include context. Obviously, you have to go to echo chambers to avoid disagreements

growframe · 2026-04-07T12:00:21+00:00

If you observe that women tend to be cowardly; or that the vast majority of important inventions were made by men; or whatever, you had better follow it up with "but of course that's because of patriarchal oppression of women" or something similar. Otherwise you will be labeled a misogynist and suffer social repercussion.

Observe where? When? Are you suggesting that someone who "observes" negative things about women unprompted isn't misigynistic?

There are a few dark corners of the internet where you can get away with telling the truth about these things.

PPD has 150k subscribers. It's not exactly a globally televised event but it's hardly some arcane forum the average person can't fathom existing. Not to mention, plenty of other social medias features prominent outright anti-women content, let alone unflattering statements. Do you think it's impossible to find people speaking negatively about women on instagram, youtube, tiktok, reddit or twitter? Or thst they're all just locked away in a little bubble the average user could never possibly come across?

NoDanaOnlyZuuI · 2026-04-07T12:00:57+00:00

you aren’t supposed to say things which are unflattering to women

Yet people do. Constantly.

cb8585b · 2026-04-07T12:17:26+00:00

You probably just dislike that people disagree with you and can state as much.

SeaworthinessSea2407 · 2026-04-07T12:40:25+00:00

Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence. Also it's generally considered ignorant and bad faith to make blanket statements about entire groups of people because they are not monoliths

SnooCats37 · 2026-04-07T11:57:23+00:00

Women are torn apart daily on social media, in the media, we aren’t exempt from criticism fair or unfair.

UnstableHotspot · 2026-04-07T12:28:47+00:00

Calling this “silencing” is a stretch. You’re not being prevented from expressing your opinions; people just push back when you make sweeping claims about an entire group. That’s not censorship, it’s disagreement.

pie-mart · 2026-04-07T13:47:50+00:00

Why do you feel owed to say something without any pushback or interjection intersection The things you're saying are opinions. You're free to say them. Not free from the repercussions

TinyFlamingo2147 · 2026-04-07T19:35:40+00:00

Yeah, stop being a dick for no reason

Gemini_zyx · 2026-04-07T12:02:17+00:00

Ok so there are a couple of points here.
First the claim "women tend to be cowardly," isnt the sort of claim likely to be backed up by evidence. I dont know how anyone would feel confident in making such a claim as its likely to be riddled with personal biases.

More importantly, in my view, is the second one "Men have invented more things than women."
You arnt silenced for saying that. Watch

Men have invented more things than women. Men are, on average, stronger than women. Male athletes outperform women athletes.

I could go on. What is important is the CONTEXT in which such claims are made. People dont just radomly spout facts from nowhere. We dont walk around and say "Did you know that the human heart beats approximately 100,000 times each day?" When we choose to tell people of a fact it is in service of a larger purpose.

So when someone says "men invented more things than women," its not just a random phrase, its part of constructing a specific narrative. Namely its part of a discourse about women, men, their place in society, intelligence, power and a WHOLE load of other things. EVEN if when you utter it you dont mean it that way you are speaking in a society in which this disucssion is ongoing. We CANNONT escape the context in which we exist.

How people respond to such statements depends a lot on how they percieve you and the immedite context in which you are speaking. There responses themselves *may* be emotional or irrational but they are not random. When you say "men invent more things than women" its not unreasonable to interpret this as you aligning with the narrative of "men are better than women", either intentionally or unintentionally providing support to the narrative hence the dislike of it. Had to simply and generalise a bit. I hope this is clear enough.

Lift_and_Lurk · 2026-04-07T12:11:57+00:00

Whenever I see “the west” it makes me wonder where in the “not west” is it so much better?

In Japan with the hikumori? Korea with 4B? China with “lay flat men?” The Middle East that’s on fire right now? Russia with over a million men dead and counting in a war?

Where is it so good for men in the “not west”?!

But the west big issue is: complaining cause people call out posts they don’t agree with? Such victim mentality

TopShelfSnipes · 2026-04-07T17:41:32+00:00

Collectivist narratives can and should be pushed back upon, particularly negative ones, because people are individuals.

That goes regardless of whether "women" or "men" are the target of said narratives.

this-is-very · 2026-04-07T17:20:45+00:00

Oh, man, this gives me massive "so what that I said that blacks have a lower IQ on average? that's just a fact!" vibes, lmao

You need to clarify you're not a woman hater by adding "but of course, oppression is why"? So, you mean that you need to contextualize your statements to not come off as a hateful person? Wow. But that's true about any statement on sensitive topics, lol. You can't just say "Israel had the right to retaliate" without any clarification if the conversation is about the Gaza war and expect people to assume the best about your opinions.

What you say and how you say it matters. It's almost like we're social creatures sensitive to nuances.

icypiee · 2026-04-07T12:31:39+00:00

On what planet are women not openly criticized and demeaned?

It’s almost taboo for men NOT to own a mic and podcast to shittalk women at this point

ThatBitchA · 2026-04-07T14:54:35+00:00

Y'all are labeled misogynistic because you willfully ignore women's impact in society.

This is excellently displayed in your first point, "vast majority of importance inventions", that's being misogynistic.

Y'all are saying unflattering things to women. Y'all are saying misogynistic things to women and women will rightfully call that out.

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anewleaf1234 · 2026-04-07T22:37:06+00:00

Do you not understand how discussion works when you aren't in echo chambers.

You can say whatever you want. Others then get to respond to what you say.

They get to disagree with you. They get to think you are an idiot and give multiple reasons why.

You aren't being silenced. You are just stepping out of an echo chamber.

In real life, people get to not want to be friends with you, not invite you out to social gathering and shun you. They also get to think that you are a moron or whatever else they want to think.

And once again, you aren't being silenced. People are just reacting to what you are saying.

Welcome to life outside echo chambers.

Hell, if you made your women haven't invented things argument not only would you be laughed out of the room, you would lectured, for hours, as to the reason why and how those reason have set us back.

Are you so entitled that you think you can say things and people won't respond?

SylvarGrl · 2026-04-08T01:19:51+00:00

In other news, people who spout bigotry are often referred to as bigots.

waffleznstuff30 · 2026-04-08T08:07:28+00:00

There are legitimate criticisms to be had about women. I won't disagree. Women are just as capable of lying/manipulating/using men. And yeah that kind of behavior should be called out. And I think most women agree. There are vindictive and cruel women out there. Also women who have a transactional mindset as promoted by tiktok about money and princess treatment. It's the same kind of crap that red pilled/PUA promote.

However a lot of the criticisms that get labeled as woman hating shit. Is I feel entitled to a woman's time and attention she won't give it to me. Her standards are too high! Mid women want only the best! Do you see where we may call that woman hating shit. I want to just have sex with her when she is clearly wanting a relationship why does she not give up sex easily for me..

I think women criticizing men as a group. Is men have said these things themselves. Heck someone said it should be okay to lie and get sex. And men will happily admit they will absolutely dog a woman to get sex. So when women say "all dudes care about is sex I want to be really discerning about it". Men call that "misandry" "man hating" when it's a reaction to men's admitted behavior.

Maffioze · 2026-04-08T09:41:02+00:00

This is another example of a man on this subreddit pointing out something real but then self-owning with ridiculous examples.

First of saying women tend to be cowards is not "truth" but moralizing. Women are more risk averse and this is a fact, but when you use the word coward you are not just saying that, you're expressing moral judgement about their risk aversion. This is not "truth" as being risk adverse can be both good and bad depending on the context. For example being risk adverse leads to better returns in the stock market, yet it also leads to less groundbreaking ideas being attempted. This means for example that female investors have better returns, while male investors are better for the macro outcome of society as a whole. That's just one example of how risk aversion can't be easily judged morally speaking.

Then the idea that men do more important things. People don't respond kindly to that simply because it is true that women were historically restricted from doing a lot of those things. It doesn't mean that everything is necessarily equal, but it does mean that you can't just look at the data and ignore how it has been historically rigged.

Now where you do have a point, is that this is applied selectively in the sense that men are also blamed for doing things, while you cannot actually know if women would have done it any better. And that it is indeed true that people react way more negatively to critique of female behavior than in reverse. You can't really generalize or talk about things women do that aren't great without receiving pushback, which you simply do not get if you talk about men that way.

xxTheMagicBulleT · 2026-04-08T12:00:42+00:00

There plenty of not all men but yet always a men quotes.

But people forget if you treat like any 1 persons actions is a reflection to the whole gender.

That people will put that same scale on women just the same they put it on men.

Why it definitely cuts both ways much more then you make it out to be.

So women being more lose with sexual morals and seeking for attention or lonely fools content. Also gets pushed as it being representative to how women are.

Harsh demands and standards pushed on men will naturally also be pushed on women. Especially when men have options they don't folded. And put the same weird or stupid standards back.

So in a big way its just a delayed cut in your own hand what is true with also gendered roles.

When one side wants to keep pushing gendered roles but find that they can't have any gendered responsibilities. It wil make people don't wanna carry there gendered responsibilities.

Much of anything is how you treat someone else so will they treat you in kind. So if you have high demands. You will in time meet more and more people that have outrageous demands of there own.

Cause equality means you only getting out based on what you give into it.

So trends and gendered behavior or even courtship changes in big ways based on how people treat the other side. Thats always been the case.

There is just a bigger social push on one side to put them self last always while on the other side there is a social push to always put them selfs first.

What naturally when the side that gets pushed to always put them selfs last notice the effort is not reciprocated they stopping to put in the effort and will put them self first much more till the other side shows they not that very selfish as the norm has become.

So how people treat the other side so shall you get treated the same way based how common a trend has become among women or among men.

Cause women and men are just 2 sides of the same coin. So its only normal changes the other side makes reflect and also makes that you get the same adjusted results back. Good or bad.

But you probably think thats the case its less for women cause its much quicker silenced or banned talk or behaviors being bad towards women then men talking bad about men online does not get the same censorship as for women. But thats not true in real life at all.

Just cause it gets removed or moderated more cause women are much more likely to report or try and silence straight up criticism or harsh words towards them while men are more use to it.

It definitely does not mean it does not have and makes a switch or ajustment in men how they handle or look or treat women. Based on how they have been treated.

Why I think cancel culture is a disease you make it seem like something is a type of way or no ine feels or experience the same thing cause it gets silenced or cancelled out over the overwhelming other side thats allowed and even protected to have there outrageous talks. But even 20% of that it gets removed.

But simple fact is if people found out the get silenced cause they will naturally and see much worse is allowed on the other side they just ajust to that. And when the wind turns do the same thing to them. Why society is a never ending back and forth with one side going to far. Then people remember how they got treated endlessly and just doing the same shit that was ok to do to them when the power was switched.

Why trends and counter trends to mimic the outrageous things and putting the other side to the same standards they put on them is very commonplace in a way putting the mirror in front of them. To hopefully see how crazy people are and how selfish they being but sadly selfish people don't just stop being selfish. But people do ajust when that behavior becomes more the norm.

What is very different from online life. Cause I would say no men or women that is always online or in there phone and connected to all the new weird trends is a good partner. On avrage people that life life true a screen are never able to live in the moment. But sadly there a ton of those people out there. That have there phone glued to there face.

While for me its mostly just what to do while I on the toilet.

What makes that online trends does effect real life more especially in bigger cities a lot lot. And faster to.

But everything online or real life has always a plain and simple actions meet reactions of both sides. Till people are completely uninterested in the other side and demand drops or stops.

Kirra_the_Cleric · 2026-04-08T12:24:55+00:00

Where do you get this whole idea that saying unflattering things about women is taboo? Are you serious? The trumpers literally spent years calling the vice president of the USA a hoe and tens of millions of cheered and laughed.

Misogyny is alive and well.

West-Advice · 2026-04-08T23:55:53+00:00

If you observe that women tend to be cowardly;

Otherwise you will be labeled a misogynist and suffer social repercussions.

Ooh no people will know you’re a sexist little virgin the horror. “I just have to act like a weak little boy and cry on the inter webs that women suck. I’m so brave, look at what I accomplished as a man… wait”

Bubbly_List274 · 2026-04-09T04:57:17+00:00

In the West, you aren’t supposed to say things which are unflattering to PEOPLE as a group. You’re not even really supposed to say anything unflattering about groups ever. It’s called stereotyping.

“The West” is mainly made up of multi-ethnic, multicultural settler colonial states founded by Europeans. These Europeans admitted, killed, and forcibly moved people around the world to develop their colonies. Pluralism is the consequence.

Pluralism = co-existing with others from different cultural background. Pluralism falls apart when stereotypes are normalized. Stereotypes may be adaptive in ethnically homogenous societies because it allows them to differentiate outsiders. But in heterogenous, pluralistic societies attempt to peacefully coexist among extremely diverse populations? It’s maladaptive in the extreme, for all involved.

Odd-Yoghurt1869 · 2026-04-15T14:56:53+00:00

Yep, the mods did not "approve" of my thread that men bring actual, tangible value and not women. That is why divorce courts are only able to "split" the assets that the man paid for. Divorce courts can't "split" what ever it is that women bring to a marriage.

Fondacey · 2026-04-07T11:59:01+00:00

you aren't supposed to say things which are unflattering to women as a group

Unflattering can be interpreted to apply to an inordinate number of interpretations. Usually unflattering is based on superficial judgement, like, those glasses are unflattering on your face because it does not harmonize with your face shape. Or you chew with your mouth open when you eat.

When you criticize groups using 'unflattering' generalization, open based on stereotypes and tropes, you will always get pushback.

So, I guess I would agree with you that when you make gross, unfair, stereotypical generalizations that serve to undermine women as professionals, members of society, parents, friends and partners, you can't be so shocked that those statements will be challenged (you call it taboo to be challenged).

LofiStarforge · 2026-04-07T12:28:23+00:00

I often wonder if any of you actually participate in society takes like these.

Also many things men who struggle with woman think are truth selling are obvious truths many of us figured out years ago and so stupidly obvious they aren’t needed to be said.

jorts-enthusiast · 2026-04-07T13:57:05+00:00

Oh no, people don’t like being generalized and will say something if they disagree with you!

alotofironsinthefire · 2026-04-07T13:09:03+00:00

You're going to get pushed back when talking negatively about an entire group of people.

You're going to get even more push back when it's an extremely large, group of people that can't help being that.

You're going to get even more push back when that group has been repeatedly discrimination against

Psychological-Cat · 2026-04-07T15:03:11+00:00

Well, when one of your examples of "unflattering things about women" that you give here, like of all things you could have chosen as examples, this is where your mind went.... And the words you choose matters! It is either pure ignorance or misogyny or a good mix of both.

"the vast majority of important inventions were made by men; or whatever, you had better follow it up with "but of course that's because of patriarchal oppression of women" no wonder you get push back.

Again, your choice of words matter. Why was that the example you went for? Why do you feel the need to dismiss women inventions to that degree?

For most of modern history, women were barred from higher education, excluded from scientific institutions and legally restricted from owning property or filing patents in their own name.

Please just do a simple Google search and educate yourself before spewing gender war stuff online and people might not be so quick to "silence you".

And just FYI because I want to: Here are some (of many) inventions from women:

Grace Brewster Hopper - Computer programmer who was the first to decide the theory of machine-independent programming languages and wrote the first computer manual.

Jane Cool Wright - Called the mother of Chemotherapy because she pioneered research taking chemotherapy from an experimental, last resort treatment towards what it is today.

Mary Sherman Morgan - Rocket Fuel Hydyne, responsible for getting the first US satellite into orbit.

Ellen Ochoa - Optical analysis system. This is how robots are guided during operations to detect imperfections for robotically manufactured products

I could continue this list for a looong time, and I have not even touched on inventions by women where men took credit.....

HonestForever6676 · 2026-04-07T13:28:10+00:00

Nobody likes generalisation

Main-Tiger8537 · 2026-04-07T13:14:59+00:00

how about we start with where toxic behavior starts and at which point consent gets violated from all point of views?

how does equal treatment or preferential treatment look like?

people do not like it one bit to look into a mirror and have to concede their own bias or toxic behavior. btw any democratic country "the west basically" is better for everybody than whatever is left "mostly dictatorships" or anarchy but i guess that would be debatable...

Hi-Road · 2026-04-07T13:30:06+00:00

I don’t think it’s too hard to be kind to each other and keep in mind our own biases. But sometimes that seems too much for people.

There shouldn’t be any “well cheating is different if a man is doing it” or “well sexual assault is different if a woman is doing it”, yet we see it all the time. It just comes off ignorant and insecure.

bluestjuice · 2026-04-07T20:53:14+00:00

What do you mean by 'taboo' here? The usage seems to mean: 'a lot of people will not like it when you do it.' That's probably true; I think there is a general consensus that generalizations are weak and negative generalizations are rude. I can see my way to an argument that conventions around rudeness roughly equal taboos.

love_in_october · 2026-04-07T18:01:41+00:00

I think you're perhaps taking one friend group to represent "in general in life in the west" or something of that nature. Many people will say blatantly misogynist things all the time and not seeing anything wrong with it.

Title	There is a Taboo Against Making Statements Which Are Unflattering to Women as a Group; This Discussion Board is Not Evidence to the Contrary
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