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Make it about me (lemmy.world)
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[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This isn't a universal complaint about the frustration of whataboutism.

This is a specific complaint about how any time women try to talk about women's issues in a forum that may contain men, those men engage in disingenuous whataboutism.

The men replying are almost never showing support, they're minimizing the issue, or they're trying to co-opt the thread.

It doesn't need to be a uniquely woman's issue for it to be a predominantly women's issue.
And it doesn't need to be a predominantly woman's issue for women to want to talk about it from a woman's perspective without men making it about them.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago

The men replying are almost never showing support, they’re minimizing the issue, or they’re trying to co-opt the thread.

To me, the comment in question didn't seem to be doing that. The point I'm trying to make is to object to the idea that it is categorically doing that, given the context. It seems like a divisive way of deciding what is bad behavior, to condemn any statement made in response to discussion about problems faced by one group that is not specifically about the struggles of that group, regardless of anything else about the statement.

This is a specific complaint about how any time women try to talk about women’s issues in a forum that may contain men, those men engage in disingenuous whataboutism.

If you would rather expand on how that goes or the ways in which this is predominantly a women's issue, feel free to take this opportunity instead of responding to what else I'm saying.

this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
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