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Scrivener7

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2. Back during the DU gender wars, there was a very heated discussion about women
Sun Oct 9, 2022, 09:43 AM
Oct 2022

saying that at night on a deserted street every man you encounter is a potential rapist and needs to be treated that way. And men should be aware of that fact and, unless they are a rapist, sensitive to it.

Men here were outraged. They were insulted. They were enraged. They told us we were paranoid, called us names for suggesting such a thing.

A couple of years later, along comes Covid. Some of those SAME men (the ones who haven't been PPR'd, as most of the men's rights ones have) were the loudest ones complaining, "Everyone I meet could give me Covid. I have no way of knowing who will and who won't! The ones who don't mask and don't distance are putting me in DANGER!!1!

They got the concept. They just didn't care enough to apply it when it didn't concern themselves.

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