Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-24609882-20140318064016/@comment-5051846-20140516181845

Umbreon126 wrote:

Chevsapher wrote:

Serza5 wrote: In these times of social justice uprising there has been an almost equal uprising of "butt hurt men" who cry at every instance of something that appears to be insulting towards men. I would go on but i'd rather not go back into another discussion in which i'm called out for being a "tumblr snowflake".

You know why? Feminism. Socially, it's considered sexist to make negative remarks about females, but when guys get flack everyone laughs. This has been on my mind for no particular reason for the last month or so while wondering why society is so screwed up today :/ It's strange... women can harass men, LGBT groups can harass and lynch people who don't see what they see, but even vaguely suggesting that you see the opposite way they do, a sh*tstorm is coming your way??? I think we need a perspective check here. Remember backlash from oppressed communities is confined for the vast majority to the wealthiest and most stable countries, meaning a very small subset of the world. (If you spend 90% of your day on Tumblr, many of whom are young and inexperienced, not experts in the areas of socialogy they are trying to analyse, you may forget about this from time to time.) Thereby, the 'world' is certainly not screwed up by that particular source of negative impact, It is in fact, for the large part, an incredibly small facet of society, even the majority of those communities not partaking in any form violent backlash.

Almost all of the developing world and a significant portion of the developed world still have official laws which directly oppress women and LGBT communities. The main form of harassment is still from men to women. This is not to say the opposite does not exist, and that is an important thing to acknowledge. This is because to fully learn from predujice you should avoid the mistakes of it regardless of who they are applied to. Never generalise, never assume without scientific evidence and work things out rationally. Be nice to everyone for god's sake.

But, here is my point. You believe the world is screwed up because of backlash from the previously or presently oppressed, a very small source fo negative impact in the big scheme of things. Of all the atrocities, all the horrific acts, all the dictatorships, starving countries, political corruption, years and years of oppression of every minority imagineable that in the world is still far from over; this tiny subset is what you choose as society's greatest fault? I believe that you have simply being not evaluating enough samples to draw an representative conclusion. I expect what you have been exposed to is very limited compared to what is going on overall. This is unlikely to be your fault, but remember this number one rule before you form any kind of judgement: Make sure the data you have really represents the world you're trying to judge. orz Don't ever just trust personal experience for such a huge explanation of such a large topic.

Femminism and LGBT+ support is not the biggest thing right now messing up the world. I'd even interject the strangely radical opinion that it may be doing more good than harm.

P.S Sorry for my terrible spelling, haha