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[ SECRET POST #3335 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3335 ⌋

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(Red Dead Redemption, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]

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[One Direction, "What Makes You Beautiful"]

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[Hanayome wa Motodanshi]

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[Driver: San Francisco, Jun and Ayumu]

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[Naruto]

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[Ash Ketchum/Professor Oak]

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Not that I agree with MRA shit, but...

How about instead of avoiding the topic, you actually engage with him like an adult and find out why he feels it necessary to keep watching these things? What's the real reason he wants to hear/see those opinions? You can't know while you're avoiding the subject.

Ostensibly this is someone you care about. And if you care about the whole person, surely you feel that their personal opinions and viewpoints are worth entertaining? If not, I'm afraid the "dump him" advice is the best option, because he probably deserves someone who does.

I have engaged him on this. I thought that was made clear, but I guess not.

His general answer was that "Even tho they're absolute scum, he finds it reaffirming to hear about people, even scummy people, talking about him and his gender in a positive light." For which I feel I deserve a girlfriend of the century award for not openly laughing in his face. I do love him but the idea that a man needs to go to exclusively anti-woman people to be reaffirmed? That shows a weak mind already partially warped by troll mra logic.

Don't pin this on me. I am entertaining his opinions. I just don't agree with them.

Then... I dunno, maybe try being reaffirming about his gender so he's not turning to MRA bullshit to hear something nice about men?

If you can't then I think I see the problem here.

I'm plenty nice about him, but the thing it that's probably not enough since of course I'm going to care more about protecting and reaffirming women than I will about soothing male egos. I'm not willing to give up feminism just to make my boyfriend happy, and if I'm not already being "reaffirming" enough, then it seems that compromising on my feminism is the only thing that will be good enough.

If your "feminism" can't acknowledge that men have positive traits, and precludes you making your partner feel good, then you're the problem.

Dump him before you succeed in making him an actual enemy of feminism, if that's truly so important to you.

Seriously that's what you got from this? I said I care about him. I said I am plenty positive about him. I only said women need my support more than he does and you take from that that I can't / wont support him as a man? You're sounding super MRA here.

Hahaha sure.

I'm honestly starting to think you're radfem anon and you're trolling more softly than usual today. If so, congrats. You got me.

lol mte
did better trolling this time, congrats

So, what, you're just done talking down to me and decided to start throwing insults?

lol

You were the first one to start flinging insults. Now I'm convinced.

10/10 would be trolled again.

So, what, you're just done talking down to me and decided to start thowing insults?

Oops. missfire.

Confirmed for radfem.

Women need your support - but which women? Who? Any you know personally? Are you an activist and feel like he's taking away time from you volunteering?

You are in a relationship with this guy. Relationships take effort. If that means getting into some conversations with him every now and then about how gender roles hurt men too, or whatever, that hardly seems like too much to ask.

All women. If an somone talks about how bad male rape is on a thread about rape culture, I'm not going to go "aww poor baby, tell me about it" I'm going to call a derailing asshole a derailing asshole. This doesn't mean that I don't sympathise with men, it just means I know where my priorities are.

And yes, I do agree that gender roles hurt men. Of course they do but they also hurt women and I don't think I should have to stop what I'm doing to add the caveat "But this affects men too" every ten mins. Besides in some cases that argument would be actively derailing. "The pay gap needs to disappear. Not just for women, but also so that men don't *Blah blah blah ten minute tangent about mens shit just so I have his permission to talk about women*

Gender roles do hurt men but the way that will be fixed is not by expecting feminists to stop every 5 mins to hold your hand, and it's sure as shit not going to be fixed with videos attacking women for doing what is necessary. These videos don't see the patriarchy as the reason for the gender roles, they see feminism as the reason why men are no longer rewarded for clinging to gender roles.

You aren't in threads where your boyfriend is derailing - you are in a real life relationship. It isn't about having arguments that you derail, its about having conversations with your fucking partner. Its about talking to your boyfriend like a person, not a debate partner.

But still, when it comes up what am I supposed to do? "That's right sweetie, you're the real victim of the pay gap"

What are you proposing?

DA

The only two options you can think of are dismissing him or completely turning the subject around?

How about "yes, that's an issue too but I'm talking about this other issue. We can talk about that one afterward if you want"? You can acknowledge issues exist without going to the extremes you're going to.

No - he said he wants to feel affirmed. You don't have to go "gosh men have it worse and women have no problems!" to acknowledge that yes, there are some things that suck for him. Going "man its sad how men not being allowed to cry can be really damaging" does not prevent you from also talking, at other times, about the way gender roles damage women.

But considering how dramatic and black and white you're being in these comments, idk if you are able to manage that.

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Look, here's the deal. Your being a feminist is more important to you than your boyfriend's feelings. That's fine. But say it for what it is.

Feeling affirmed in his gender is important for him. You are not willing to do that. On an individual scale, sure, but it's not the same thing and you know it (you wouldn't accept a non-feminist singing your praises as a person while not being supportive of women in general).

This is a wall that you're both running up against, and it's not going to fall. So sorry, but break up with him, and let him find someone that matches him better. Then you find the same.

He probably enjoys listening to them the same way I sometimes enjoy fictional media where women beat the snot out of men. Unless you think he is actually going to subscribe to any of the more horrible ideas these podcasts are putting out, leave him be.

He's already trying to respect your wishes by not watching them when you are around.

You wouldn't side eye the fuck out of someone who watches shows where the hero beats the snot out of women?

Not as much as I side-eyeing the woman in the DoA/SC thread below who thinks co-ed fighting games are wrong.

Yikes. The only other guy I know who thinks like that is a complete dipshit asswad libertarian ex-convict. Guys who talk like that really do not understand feminism at all. I'm sorry OP but that is not a good sign.

Well start sending him videos of people affirming his gender that are not from MRA sources. It's the whole internet, they exist somewhere.

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