RE: Left-Wing Chronicles: Big Tech Misogyny
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I dunno, I feel like you misunderstood things on so many levels and I hesitate to mansplain humour to you but...
A joke about a woman being beaten is specifically a joke because we know it's inherently wrong to do, and its playing on our moral compasses to feel a little shocked and uncomfortable, while also addressing an otherwise hard to talk about subject. Nobody is sharing that meme to cheer on and encourage more beatings.
That's the entire point of comedy and has been since time began (think court jesters). In the same way, we watch horror movies because they're not real. We acknowledge that murderers and insane cults exist, and we are reminded of them through a particular art form, and enjoy it nonetheless.
The post implies that women are the butt of jokes more than men. But that just isn't the case, they're just different subject matters. Men are memed to hell for being, well, incels. Also rednecks, pedophiles, small dicks, dumb, brain in their penis, sexists, porn addicts, weebs, effeminate, manboobs, crypto bros, mansplainers... the list goes on almost infinitely, none of them in a flattering light.
It's a fair balance, it's fine. It's comedy.
Finally, you straight up just misunderstand certain memes entirely such as the Madonna one. Nobody is complaining she's not hot. Everybody is stating their opinions about what it means to age with dignity. She is a symptom of glamourous celebrity life, seemingly desperate to be young forever. People don't want her hotter, they want her to give up on it and look healthy. Thus memes are born from this idea. And let's be honest, saying she'd addicted to cosmetic surgery is an understatement and something we should mock, rather than glorify and 'empower'
The main topic of this post is sexism within science and tech combined with the unrelenting toxic masculinity that runs rampant and is even rejoiced throughout society. The fact that you haven't addressed any of this in your wall of text just proves my point more and honestly makes it hard to take any of your points seriously.
You are nitpicking on the fringe and trying to argue semantics rather than engaging with the actual topic. It's not a good look, and yet it was also 100% expected that at least one person would employ this strategy. I could concede every point you've made and still be overwhelmingly on the correct side of this discussion.
I'm am nitpicking things that are nitpicky in order to bolster your point. I don't even necessarily disagree that women have a harder time in certain, if not most, fields of work, a man's world etc. That's why I didn't argue it. My problem was the use of humour, which, though you consider nitpicky, takes up the vast majority of your post, filled with memes and sarcastic commentary on each.
I just think the approach was disingenuous.