this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2024
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I get what you're saying.
I might have made the same mistake as the guy you're replying to, but fortunately for me, several years ago someone gave me a very similar explanation for a very similar situation.
I'm not sure I remember the details. But basically it was this word used to describe criminal murderous anti-intellectual misogynists. I mean these were REALLY bad people. But it was specific to a certain type of community.
A few in that community agreed with the use of that word in this way but not many. Most would complain that it seemed to paint everyone in the community with the same brush or "color" so to speak.
But the guy I spoke to reassured me that they just didn't understand the history of the word and that many of them are only complaining because they just want to keep doing the criminal murderous anti-intellectual misogynist thing.
What was the word again? Oh yeah, it was N****r
Strangely it didn't catch on fortunately many other words have caught on like:
incel, modern women, manosphere, manspreading, manterrupting, mansplaining, toxic masculinity, tech bro (that's a new one for me).
And probably many more.
I spend most of my time on left leaning spaces so I don't know many of the new words to refer to "bad women".
I guess this mean left leaning people just don't want to help women address the bad behaviors within women's communities.
Because people who use these kinds of words are only trying to make the world a better place by trying to better understand the ways different behaviors cause harm to society and this never EVER has anything to do with painting a whole group of people with the large brush of bigotry.
/s obviously this is sarcasm
My point is, tech bro is at least a little misandrist. And it's only the latest in a long list of misandrist terminology promoted by the left.
And then leftists are shocked that young men are flocking to the right...