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Left Wing Men

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WandaWomblesaurus · 28/10/2022 08:52

Who think they are progressive...
Still misogynists whilst calling right wing men out.
I've a few of these on my Facebook. How they love to jump on any post I make about womens rights.

Nauseating. And what makes it even worse is the superiority they feel because they aren't Tories. Massive blind spot really.

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BernardBlacksMolluscs · 28/10/2022 10:09

Well I am now, obviously

ArabellaScott · 28/10/2022 10:03

Am I the only one to have heard the thread title sung in the voice of the Pet Shop Boys?

Arcadia · 28/10/2022 10:03

I'm sad about Billy Bragg. I adored his music when I was younger, it was the soundtrack to my teenage years. I have totally gone off him now.

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WandaWomblesaurus · 28/10/2022 10:00

Thank you so much for linking that - I remember reading it at the time and a large penny dropping about some of the behaviour I had started to see online.

See also Billy Bragg.

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CaveMum · 28/10/2022 09:52

JK Rowling wrote a great Twitter thread several years ago about the language that was being used by left wing men to describe, then Prime Minister, Theresa May.

Reading it made me sit up and pay attention to what JKR had to say politically and socially.

twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/873207949564497920?s=46&t=064TQuFUujuMOBTy9cB4Sw

GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 28/10/2022 09:47

I read somewhere - it might even have been here - that right wing men regard women as private property, left wing as public property, and thought that sounded depressingly spot-on.

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WandaWomblesaurus · 28/10/2022 09:35

KatMcBundleFace · 28/10/2022 09:31

If they are rude / aggressive.

Delete their comments.
Set the post to be viewed excluding them.

People are afraid to speak up, and are happier to do so when they aren't being shouted at.... even virtually.

Echo chamber or stopping them bullying?

Discuss in person......

I put on Facebook that I supported J K Rowling and if that was a problem for people they were welcome to defriend me. A couple of people did but they were only acquaintances. I don't defriend.

"People are afraid to speak up, and are happier to do so when they aren't being shouted at.... even virtually."

This is so true.
Yes I've blocked some of the repeat offenders.
One of them is about to turn transwoman I suspect as he's REALLY really beardy whiny NAMALT TWAW SWIW.

I think he will reinvent himself as a woman and open and only fans account and become a Green Party msp.

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oldwomanwhoruns · 28/10/2022 09:33

Absolutely, OH! I have the same rude, sneering attempted put-downs on Facebook from entitled leftie men. All my interactions are about women's rights.

I keep replying with politeness and facts.

KatMcBundleFace · 28/10/2022 09:31

If they are rude / aggressive.

Delete their comments.
Set the post to be viewed excluding them.

People are afraid to speak up, and are happier to do so when they aren't being shouted at.... even virtually.

Echo chamber or stopping them bullying?

Discuss in person......

I put on Facebook that I supported J K Rowling and if that was a problem for people they were welcome to defriend me. A couple of people did but they were only acquaintances. I don't defriend.

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WandaWomblesaurus · 28/10/2022 09:30

The men in my family are all lefties too but there's a fair few misogynistic attitudes amongst them.

DH understands the issues now.

After 5 years!

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Violashift · 28/10/2022 09:27

Of course.
They are all advocates of women's rights too. We have 3 dds so maybe that helps but I don't recognise what you are saying.
Agree with pp there ate misognists from every walk of life.

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WandaWomblesaurus · 28/10/2022 09:23

Violashift · 28/10/2022 09:16

My OH is a ' leftie' he still holds the door for me. As area lot of our other friends. I actually find more right people act more selfish and rude. Totally opposite experience of you.

Isn't this just the people you know though? Men hold the door for me all the time but I don't know if they are left or right.

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waterwitch · 28/10/2022 09:21

Don’t think any single political grouping has a monopoly on courtesy, or obviously on misogyny.

Violashift · 28/10/2022 09:16

My OH is a ' leftie' he still holds the door for me. As area lot of our other friends. I actually find more right people act more selfish and rude. Totally opposite experience of you.

ErrolTheDragon · 28/10/2022 09:05

And what makes it even worse is the superiority they feel because they aren't Tories. Massive blind spot really.

It's probably more than that, there's likely to be a strong element of 'moral licensing'. Same phenomenon as found in some religious people.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 28/10/2022 08:57

as I get older I value courtesy more and more. It makes life better and enables things to get done that wouldn’t happen without it

i’ve previously made a joke along the lines of ‘at least right wing misogynists will open the door for you’

but actually I’m serious. If I have to deal with two men who both think I’m inferior because of my sex, I’ll pick the one who’ll act with a degree of courtesy every time

and in my experience that ain’t the leftie