This isn't a TAAT, but it is inspired by some previous threads and posters and a topic that has got me thinking.
I've been struck recently by just how much some men (obvs, NAMALT) hate women talking, particularly women talking together, particularly women talking together in ways that are critical of masculinity or patriarchy; and how there is a certain type of man who feels absolutely compelled to "correct" us. They don't want to have a debate, they don't want to talk through ideas, they just want to tell us why we're wrong.
I think it's common to stumble across things online that provoke us, the internet being what it is. We can all do a line in impotent frothing rage when we come across someone on the internet who writes things that we disagree with, things that make us cross. But to a certain type of man, it seems like a point of pride to go and find all of these awful women talking together, no matter how obscure their corner of the internet, not just to see what they're saying, but by god, to get right in there and tell them how WRONG they are.
Why is this? From where does this sense of entitlement come, and what is it that they want to achieve? I think there is more to it than just garden-variety trolling. I have never once wanted to go to an MRA site and tell them they're all a bunch of basement-dwelling mouth-breathing cave trolls. Why would I?
All they achieve is to prove the necessity of women continuing to talk, because they illustrate the exact reason why we need feminism. Not only does it not make me shut up, it makes me want to shout louder. And it doesn't make me question my conclusions about the way the world is, it drives me further into feminism because their arguments tend to be so utterly weak, so easily refuted, so obviously fuelled by misogyny, fear and often downright ignorance, that there's just very little debate to be had.
Do they know this? Every MRA I've seen come here has only achieved in scoring a massive own goal. Bless.
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It just proves the point, doesn't it?
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FreshwaterSelkie · 19/01/2016 06:18
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