Argumentative Penguin
1 min readJun 8, 2024

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The 'whooping and high-fiving' is a hyperbolas phrase. What I mean by it in practice is closer to what KAT has done in the other comment on this thread. It's consensus building and exclusionary behaviour that comes as a byproduct of unfettered supportive agreement. I went to an all-girls school, I know how consensus building works in practice.

What I mean by that is that most pieces tend to attract an audience of people who already agree, plus those who vehemently disagree and who are vociferously anti-whatever is written. This leads to a sort of consensus and confirmation bias combination - namely a) men are the problem (because the ones who show up often are) and b) that women have got each other's backs and everything will be okay if they just stick together.

The voices that are missing then become the moderate women who don't identify as feminists, moderate men who are either bored of the circular agreement or who have shut off because of the fringe misandry that creeps in round the edges - and Penguins like me.

As I said, I don't have a problem with anything you've written; I just don't think writing these things ad nauseam is helpful in the grand strategy for what society should be achieving at this juncture. We screwed the pooch post #MeToo and I don't know how we get the genie back in the bottle.

https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/how-amber-heard-crashed-the-course-of-feminism-c0ec43ff7a52

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Argumentative Penguin
Argumentative Penguin

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