I guess I was a little to aggressive in my original comment. I meant to explain why minority only groups get less flack than majority only groups, not to suggest that men only groups shouldn’t exist.

Women only groups exist alongside the people who disapprove of them. I don’t see why men only groups can’t. As many have pointed out, however, men only groups DO exist. Someone linked to dull_mens_club as a Lemmy specific example, but more broadly, fraternities exist. Battered mens groups exist. I think some groups like nights of Columbus and the masons are or were men only. Men only schools and colleges exist, as do women only. Most veterans organizations are primarily men just by nature of who makes up the majority of most militaries.

You’re putting words in my mouth and confusing the difference between a demographic and an individual. AS A DEMOGRAPHIC, women are oppressed. AS A DEMOGRAPHIC, men are not. We’re talking about statistics here, not individual experience.

The fact that some men are oppressed does not imply men are equally or more oppressed than women.

The fact that women AS A DEMOGRAPHIC are oppressed and men AS A DEMOGRAPHIC are not does not imply all men are oppressors. It DOES imply that men opress women, but like… fucking duh? If men aren’t pressing women, then who is? It doesn’t mean all men are oppressors, but are you seriously going to sit her and act like the majority of domestic abusers, sexual harassers, and discriminators AREN’T men???

You’re interpreting a defense of women exclusive spaces as an attack on individual men. You should unpack that.

I didn’t place them in the oppressor group, I said they weren’t oppressed.

The mens club you’re talking about DOES exist though. Since men are not a marginalized minority, that club is just called society.

Your logic mirrors asking, ‘Why not create a whites-only club?’ Technically, you could, but people would rightly view it negatively because white people, as a group, are not marginalized. Exclusive spaces for minorities exist to provide relief from the discrimination or bias they routinely encounter. For groups that do not face those barriers, everyday society already functions as their ‘exclusive space,’ which makes it difficult for non-minorities to understand why others might need a separate environment.

Men will say anything to avoid admitting they’re bad at sex.

I think the meme is classist because it directs anger toward the people living in the pictured low-income housing. People who have the least control over the forces shaping their lives. Meanwhile, the billionaire class, who paid a hefty and blood-soaked price to keep them uneducated and inundated with right-wing propaganda, escape scrutiny.

Don’t get me wrong, the people in that picture probably suck. They’re more of a symptom tho.

Call off the war, boys. China’s clearly won.

They are literally trying to turn Americans into the Covenant tho. Religious warriors.

Welcome to fascism, where the rules are made up and the crimes don’t matter (unless your enemies do them, then they really really matter).

Ah so everything was chill in the USSR then? Stalin didn’t have any secret police or totalitarian access to power?

When you ignore established agricultural science because it’s too capitalist, and your crops fail, starving a significant portion of your country, yeah that’s kinda the governments fault.

Dunning Kruger.

Your body is so much more complicated than a function that takes calories as input and outputs an expected result. You need more than just calories, you need nutrients. A nutrient deficient person does not burn calories the same way a person with a balanced diet does.

Like just think for a second. Is the only variable of food that matters is calories, then why do you need vitamins? Why do we split calories into categories like protein, carbs, veggies, fruits, etc? Why can you get a PhD in nutrition if it’s only as simple as calories in calories out?

The simple answer is it’s not simple. Asserting that it is when it isn’t creates some terrible narratives around exercise, diet, and body image.

The first and second images are fantasy.

How come everyone wants to imagine the future is great and the past was great (it wasn’t, it’s literally just now but worse), but nobody wants to imagine what they could do to make now better?

Damn, street performers are really changing the game. Depressed tree is a unique take on the human statue routine.

OMG, there used to be this YTMND where the gun was replaced with a kit kat. I have to find it.

Found it!

If she’s a 10, and she does that, doesn’t that mean I’m into it?

You’ve become a person who puts the pleasure of others above your own delicate sensabilities. Congratulations on not being prude 🎉

(was just teasing, I still think it’s good the US participated on the right side at least, because that wasn’t always going to go that way).

My brother in christ, the military was segregated during world war 2.

Idk if it’s just me, but it’s insane to bring up Uhygur genocide, which has not been in the news or mentioned at all for years, while we watch US funded Israel blowing up starving children on a daily basis.