Argumentative Penguin
1 min readSep 28, 2021

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The vast majority of women in my social circle are quietly feminist. They hold nuanced views and see the interactions between men and women as inherently complicated at a core level. For every 10 of those people there is someone who has mistaken misandry for empowerment. Those people tend to be more vocal, much louder and equate every ill with men and patriarchal oppression. Their vocal nature also tends to mean they are front and centre in the discussions, particularly on social media where their pieces are lauded and applauded at length as having insight.

The trick with these writings is to gender flip them and still see if they're acceptabe. https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/flip-articles-on-their-head-693aa75c023b

Controversy sells and there's a willing audience prepared to equate outright misandry with feminism. Any attempt to question such a world view or methodology is treated as oppression and shouted down without a single shred of irony. I suspect Dillon has had a bad experience or two with these sorts of people.

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Argumentative Penguin
Argumentative Penguin

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