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by smirksirlot
3304 days ago
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This thread is basically people stumbling over themselves trying to defend how this is NOT sexist or justify the varying degrees of sexism. Some of the fun examples:
- men get talked over too! (doesn't mean this isn't sexist)
- he's just an asshole (doesn't mean he's not a sexist asshole)
- that woman is just looking for a social justice moment (how about the rest of the audience?) |
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If you don't want to be interrupted, keep talking. If the moderator is an ass, he's an ass.
If you expect to always be treated with respect by default, a) you're privileged and b) you're deluded. Those men probably learnt to assert themselves because if they didn't, they'd be invisible. The woman on the other hand learned that if she waits long enough, someone will stand up for her and everyone will applaud.
So the cycle continues, that those whose problems are automatically taken seriously by most are those who are the least self sufficient and the most coddled. Hacker culture and the internet doesn't apply this rule so much, most of all because physical attractiveness and charisma is usually out of the picture.
What's that line again, about how when you're used to privilege, equal treatment feels like oppression? Strange how nobody examines it in both directions.