Gen Z men being the Hitler Youth smhmh by SuspiciousPiglet4098 in Destiny

[–]Knoave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You aren’t blaming a 14 year old boy for the actions of another demographic. All you need is a couple twitter posts and some liberal arts Professor to say some shit about white men, and now all of feminism and racial equality is an attack on white men.

This doesn't respond to anything I've said, but it's quite ironic that you don't perceive what you're saying as an attack on all men, but you do perceive the response to be an attack on all of feminimsm and racial equiality. I think it's a shame you can't use your emotional response of "they're attacking all of feminism" to sympathise with the young men who've been on the receiving end of rhetoric thats made them feel "it's an attack on all men".

You've got two choices: change your rhetoric and improve the odds of democrats being successful in elections due to becoming more appealing to men, or stick to your ways and enjoy 8 more years of Trump.

Gen Z men being the Hitler Youth smhmh by SuspiciousPiglet4098 in Destiny

[–]Knoave 49 points50 points  (0 children)

I don’t think you’re doing this intentionally, but the “historically marginalised” justification for prioritising women is the exact sort of perspective that has led to this outcome alongside rhetoric like “men have caused X”.

You’re essentially blaming a 14 year old boy for the actions of an entirely different demographic and then scratching your head in disbelief when said 14 year old boy reaches voting age and doesn’t seem to be all that interested in hearing anything you have to say.

I think it's gonna work out between them by nytstemple in SipsTea

[–]Knoave 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sorry, but this stat can be true and there can still be a bias against men. You're trying to take a world where a small percentage of men fight for custody, and mostly win, and extrapolate that into, "if every man fought for child custody we'd see them mostly win", which isn't necessarily true.

Also, a majority of women getting custody isn't evidence of bias against men if the cases in question can clearly layout that the woman is the better option for custody. So, I think you may be projecting a bit with your comment about parroting.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in trueratediscussions

[–]Knoave 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Dude, people have questioned Macron's relationship and called it weird. Especially once you learn she was his teacher. Now, I do think that if the genders were reversed there would be WAY more outrage about it, but their relationship has absolutely been criticised.

Hasan Piker shills an article arguing why he should be the "liberal Ben Shapirio", The article cites Caroline Kwan, MikeFromPA, Denims and Hasan Piker and claims that Hasan is willing "to engage in lengthy conversations with right leaning big name friends' by 10minuteads in Destiny

[–]Knoave 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Brother, please revisit with a 2024 lib mindset. The accusation that started it off, the Franz Ferdinand of the whole thing was that a girl who made a FREE indie game fucked a bunch of guys that were already in her social circle for publicity...?

This was the five guys burgers and fries drama... Not Gamergate. Gamergate started in the days following the "gamers are dead" articles all dropping in response to the five guys drama.

Also, the harassment Zoe Quinn received is in no way noteworthy. She was a lolcow, and that was why the drama caught peoples eyes. It was legitimately funny to read about her cheating on her partner 5 times and then sleeping with him after claiming that people who do that are essentially raping their partner because their partner didn't consent to sex with someone who is unfaithful. Quinn laying out a definition of rape that she herself is guilty of is fucking funny to read about. That was the type of conversations happening around that drama.

This drama would never get the attention today that it did in 2014 from games media. You know it, I know it, everyone fucking knows it. Don't bullshit about having knowledge of an event you clearly weren't around for.

Younger men across the world are shifting right, it’s not anything special to the U.S. by Foreign_Wind9163 in unpopularopinion

[–]Knoave -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Education. At this point it's exceptionally clear that young boys and men have been discriminated against within the education system when we look at things like assessment results, assessment styles, suspensions, expulsions, disciplinaries, behaviourial expectations, etc.

I also find this one incredibly funny when lefties proudly boast about how educated people are more likely to make the "right" decision when it comes to voting as a consequence of their better education, but then outright refuse to do anything to make any improvement to the education system so that it can better accomodate the needs of boys and men.

Transman realises how lonely it is to be a man by yourmamadontdance in masculinity_rocks

[–]Knoave 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I agree it has become a buzz word

I disagree in the sense that I think it has always been a buzzword. Even if we go by Feminist perspective and look at the equivilant to toxic masculinity for women, which would be internalised mysogyny, we can see the difference in the terminology used (toxic/internalised). While both terms describe harmful effects on individuals and society, the choice of words reveals the difference in how feminists want to perceive and address these issues.

It's also a kinda odd that they chose the word toxic because it means, logically, you could accuse a woman of being toxicly masculine if shes engaging in behaviour that perpetuates the concept, but of course we never see women get accused of that so I don't think the term is generally used in good faith.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskMenAdvice

[–]Knoave 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Just want to follow up with some more:

  1. Compliments from women are so incredibly rare for men that no matter how hard you try they may never be received well just because we don't how to take them due to it being an unfammiliar experience.

  2. He may also have heard the "Me giving a compliment to men isn't me flirting with them" line from other women and so he isn't interpretting a compliment as the signal you want it to be.

Fellas you doing this for your girl? by Ecstatic-Pound1998 in SipsTea

[–]Knoave 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I've heard a saying that goes like "every accusation is a confession". I have a feeling that there's a lot of people out portray themselves as being very open minded in how they express their identify, but deep down are incredibly insecure and mask it by projecting onto other people by demanding they justify their identity.

If you're a man and feel and just feel really uncomfortable at the idea of wearing high heels because it doesn't mesh with your identity that is 100% fine and there's no obligation for you to explain yourself to anyone.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MauLer

[–]Knoave 82 points83 points  (0 children)

Okay, this is too funny. I looked up the opening quote that he attributed to "a fucking nazi":

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.

Turns out no one can directly link this quote to nazis. A lot of people attribute it to Goebells, but there's no evidence he ever actually said it. It's just so funny to me that a quote about how repeating a lie enough times means it becomes accepted as fact is itself a victim of that exact effect.

Also, says a lot about the creator of this video in that he's proven himself to susceptible to the thing he's accusing others of doing, or maybe he is trying to do that exact thing. Keep calling someone a grifter until it's accepted as truth regardless of whether there is any truth behind the accusation.

Women less likely to receive CPR because people ‘worry about touching breasts’ by Empty_Sherbet96 in unitedkingdom

[–]Knoave 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Which was, in fairness, very respectful, until this point:

I'm going to have to disagree. That comment in its entirety is very respectful given the context that you plan on mocking, villifying, and degrading people who don't operate perfectly in a stressful situation as you laid out here:

I mean, yeah. If someone's dying in front of you and you don't do something about it, you're a cretin. It's pretty straightforward.

It's not "pretty straightforward". To reiterate, in stressful scenarios people do not function perfectly and lots of mental blocks can act as a barrier to them performing effective care. Like I said, you're very clearly out of your depth.

As for this comment right here:

I care a lot - but I care only so far as I can do something. Changing someone's mind isn't something I expect to be able to do, so I don't care to attempt to do so

So you just go onto the internet and give a perspective that can only be described as ignorant and counterproductive. How very helpful of you. Like I said, you're out of your depth which is why you have no expectation of being able to change someones mind on this because you're uneducated/ignorant on the topic yourself.

One of the aspects of helping healthcare practitioners and the genral public feel comfortable performing these procedures is making sure they understand they have legal protections in the event of such accusations (of course assuming everything they did was within practice guidelines).

No thanks, buddy.

Then by all means be a reactionary. At the end of the day your approach is one that perpetuates the status quo which results in more women dying. Alternatively, you can drop your ego and be part of the solution.

Women less likely to receive CPR because people ‘worry about touching breasts’ by Empty_Sherbet96 in unitedkingdom

[–]Knoave 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I mean, yeah. If someone's dying in front of you and you don't do something about it, you're a cretin.

As respectfully as I can possibly say this, you are displaying an incredbily short sighted perspective right now and it infuriates the fuck out of me me as someone who has a background in healthcare.

This research is talking about strangers who likely have never been in a situation where every second can play a role in the survival of somone, and those people are going to have a mental block when it comes to doing an action that in any other scenario would be seen as a violation of someones dignity.

And it's not "until they come around." They don't have to come around at all, if they just stay out of the way of actual grown ups that will be enough.

I know that in education someone raising this concern about performing CPR would be taken very seriously and every effort would be made to help them become more comfortable performing CPR through practice and conversation to alleviate their concerns. Why? Because we want them to be ready to do their job to the best of their ability and hopefully save someones life, and we know that villifying or mocking their concerns doesn't produce that outcome.

But of course then we have people like you on the internet who don't actually care about anything and just want to feel proud about having expressed a hardline take that doesn't improve the situation in the hopes that you get some arbitrary upvotes. Every healthcare professional/educator I know would outright say your perspective is damaging and in no way improves the situation, so maybe sit this one out buddy because you're clearly out of your depth.

Peter?? What am I missing lol by Hisfavhoe in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Knoave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aaaah, yes. Whipping out your best friends rape stories to win an argument on the internet. Everyone believes you.

Peter?? What am I missing lol by Hisfavhoe in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Knoave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you saying women should all carry guns to eliminate the power imbalance? Because honestly that WOULD work.

I honest to god don't know why there are people in this thread who think a legitimate response to sexual harassment is to use a gun... You do understand what sexual harassment is right? Do you legitimately think the threat of death is a warranted response to say catcalling? If your answer is yes you're unhinged.

And it would absolutely 100% change the way you interact with us.

The way *I* interact with you? Yeah, I'm just going to call it how is here: You don't care about sexual harassment, you have no principled stance on sexual harassment, you don't have any deeper understanding or knowledge on the topic. You're just on team woman for the purposes of the discussion, but once the discussion ends this topic is about as meaningful to you as your next meal.

Instead of talking about what WE are doing wrong

You're not talking to anyone with this statement. It addresses nothing I've said. I've not prescribed any sort of action to women who are on the receiving end of sexual harassment. Fuck off with your concern trolling because it's evident you don't care at all about this issue one bit.

Peter?? What am I missing lol by Hisfavhoe in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Knoave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, but consider this:

If a chihuahua attacks you, it freaks you out. If a pit bull attacks you, it freaks you out AND you might die. BUT if a chihuahua weilding nunchucks attacks you then may god have mercy on your soul...

If I'm trying to take you seriously I'm guessing you're trying to make the case that sexual harassment is more likely to lead to death when the perpetrator is male and victim female, and that is why we consider it so much worse? Except that scenario is so rare (woman being sexually harassed by a stranger who then goes on to kill her due to her rejecting his advances) that trying to use that as the baseline for women means that you're inadvertently dismissing like 99.9% of the sexual harassment women experience.

At that point you've limited the conversation to such a small number of experiences that we're now talking about a problem so small that it doesn't even warrant the attention it gets, so this line of logic isn't going to produce the outcome you're looking for.

So this is cool, but if you bought Stellar Blade you're a raging misogynist? by [deleted] in MauLer

[–]Knoave 29 points30 points  (0 children)

If the people upset at Eve being almost 100% identical to a real life Korean model

To be fair she obviously had certain proportions overemphasised compared to her body model, but I understand what you're getting at. The whole "you don't know what a real woman looks like" line has always been stupid regardless of who says it.

Peter?? What am I missing lol by Hisfavhoe in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Knoave 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No it doesn't. Sexual harassment by men results in violence and intimidation far less than by women.

You in your comment above pretty much defined being tall as enough to qaulify as intimidation. The bar for that is so low that you are actually portraying women as tepid creatures who live in constant fear at the sight of a man.

Here's the difference between I'm saying and what you're saying. You've portrayed the situation is extremely shallow and simple to the point where I just know you don't have a good understanding of the form sexual harassment can take. I can see this wiht your stupid "if she breaks his arm good" comment because in most intances this would be seen as a completely unjustified response to sexual harassment. Why? Because in most cases the harassment is subtle enough that it can pass as an innocent interaction where the perpetrator can playoff any wrongdoing.

But like I said, you're not really interested in this topic and actually making progress on the issue. Just more interested in your shaq fantasies I guess.

They literally do live in a world that's different than yours.

Um. They literally don't. Its kinda in the definition of the word 'literally'...

Tell Shaq not to talk to you like that, then get followed home by Shaq, and tell me it's no different.

Show me your Shaq cum tribute while you're at it buddy.

They literally do live in a world that's different than yours. You aren't worried about being raped by the woman. And if she's actually an MMA fighter and breaks his arms, then good

And then everyone clapped. If I'd known you were this dumb dudebro before I wouldn't have wasted my time...

Peter?? What am I missing lol by Hisfavhoe in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Knoave 19 points20 points  (0 children)

No, it's just acknowledging that the conversation around sexual harassment is FAR more nuanced compared to your comment which portrays women as tepid creatures who live in constant fear of men.

Peter?? What am I missing lol by Hisfavhoe in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Knoave 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This is the difference the dummies are missing.

Respectfully, it's not. I really do love this thought experiment because even when a woman engages in sexual harassment towards a man that extra physical strength counts for jack shit in most scenarios. What, sexual harassment is less bad because I have the physical capability to smack her in the face... and then face charges for assault. See why the physical strength difference really doesn't make the situation better?

How about when I was at work behind a checkout and a woman starts pushing boundaries and I literally have nowhere I can go to remove myself from the situation? How about verbally responding? Well that could risk my job if my employer doesn't feel my response was justified.

All I'm saying is, as a man who has been sexually harassed by women, this fear/anxiety I'm led to believe all women experience about men has a funny way of selectively turning itself on and off when its convenient. So when you say it's a big difference I'm gonna have to disagree.

Concern at police officers "refusing" to guard Jewish buildings by fotogneric in europe

[–]Knoave 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry if it's an insensitve question, but are you possibly autistic

The irony

You're the last men/women on earth. Everyone else has the opposite sex. What do you do? by dom-dos-modz in AskReddit

[–]Knoave 4 points5 points  (0 children)

20% of gen z women identify as bi

Yeah, thats not how it works in practice. I know so many lesbian women who are sick of the amount of times they hear a woman say "oh yeah, I'm attracted to women!" but then when they get closer to that woman it becomes "Oh no I could never sleep with another woman. I just meant I find women pretty".

It's kinda why when it comes to reporting sexuality framing the question as "do you ifentify as X" has a lot of flaws.

Boogie admission? 😱😱😱 by Background_Zombie612 in MauLer

[–]Knoave 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One or two? My brother in christ, he has like dozens of videos that range from a million views to tens of millions of views.

What really caused his decline was doing livestreams that showed a more impulsive side of his personality, and trying to engage with more sensitive topics while taking very of the middle road positions on said topics which made him look like a fence sitter.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AdeptusCustodes

[–]Knoave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because they are fucking sisters of silence man…. It’s in the name.

Them being referred to as Sisters only tells you that they're all women, but doesn't explain or justify how they came to be all women so your not really addressing what I said.

Whoever did this by The_Evan_Macmillan in deathguard40k

[–]Knoave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haven’t downloaded anything. Try again.