resist microstructural oppression
uhhhh okay so I agree that getting mad when anyone references the Holocaust in any way in an argument is unproductive but when you ask someone why they don’t think God exists and their response is “One word: Dachau.”
like idk it just seems kind of … insensitive? to use an atrocity in which people were persecuted and killed for their religious beliefs in your argument about how religion is the worst thing ever to befall mankind? couldn’t you at least pick some other genocide
man I get really annoyed when people are like “look at how we allow people to say insufficiently feminist things without ostracizing them! this is why we don’t have any women”
but this is probably unreasonable, right?
I want to be like This is Erasing Antifeminist Women but I’m sure statistically women are more feminist and more likely to be turned off by people saying insufficiently feminist stuff
I mean when I think about how groups can be more welcoming to women my first thought is “well you can start by not talking about basketball all the time” and I think if a woman got mad at me because she was a huge basketball fan that would be kind of silly
(I mean there could be other differences between the two cases, like maybe the freedom to be honest about your political beliefs is more important to group belonging than the freedom to talk about LeBron whenever he comes to mind, but the general principle is the same)
for the record, I identify as the comparison shopper, it’s science!, the rationalist, the economist, the traditionalist,the good girl, and now I guess the cartoon critic, in roughly that order
