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Maaate

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ClawedButler · 24/07/2023 14:41

Anyone else just kind of baffled as to what #maaaate is supposed to achieve?

I mean, I feel like it's come from a good place, for the MOL to announce this as a campaign while women are still being killed at a rate of around 2 a week just seems like turning up to a tsunami clear-up operation with a dustpan and brush.

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MavisMcMinty · 24/07/2023 15:06

Surely any move to make men responsible for men’s behaviour has to be a good thing? Whether or not they actually say “Maaaate” to each other? Otherwise it’s women’s responsibility not to make men do/say terrible things to us and I’m sick and fucking tired of that angle.

BrunchMonster · 24/07/2023 15:02

I'm not sure how I feel about it. I get that it's a good thing to get men to call out other men who are being sexist, and that the small things are important. But it irks me a bit that it has to be so carefully done, find a way for men to do it without making a big thing of it, give them a way to stay friends, save face, or whatever. I know that is the practical, pragmatic way to go about it, but I guess it bothers me that it needs to be that way to get anything changed. It has to be so finely judged so that no men end up feeling hurt.

MowingTheTerf · 24/07/2023 14:58

Maaate, sort out the Met.

Tinysoxx · 24/07/2023 14:55

Twitter is having fun with it. Especially sending the maaate message back to the London mayor in relation to his behaviour towards women.

caerdydd12 · 24/07/2023 14:48

It's never going to sort out anything substantial but I don't think small steps in the right direction can be anything other than a good thing.

There are so many everyday "smaller" acts of sexism and they're ingrained into society at this point, if this gives a few young men (or any men) the courage to call out their mates then why not. Wolf whistling is now seen as unacceptable and it was smaller campaigns like this that contributed to it (in my opinion).

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ClawedButler · 24/07/2023 14:42

I meant, "but for..."

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