If someone complains about a problem they didn't cause, it's not suddenly their responsibility to fix it. You are allowed to just be mad at something unfair. Fixing it would make it better for everyone, you're right. But if I'm irrationally afraid of women and I treat every woman I come across as a potential murderer, that's not fair to them or to me, and it's not their job to fix me.
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There's an interesting technology connections video on how analog clocks can be easier to parse how "far" through the hour/day you are with just a quick glance. Hand almost at the top means the hours almost up, for instance.
A lot easier version is just short hand = the hour, long hand * 5 = the minutes
A couple bad people really ruin it for everyone. You are the person in the post because you're a regular dude who doesn't deserve to be treated like that.
That's kind of his point...
Wasn't there a meme post about how people don't change their opinions when presented with facts? I think not even explanations, for me it was listening to someone I trusted talk to someone about their experiences. I think it's often just people not imagining themselves as the other person and how they would feel experiencing all that, or just not knowing what the average woman deals with day to day.
Yeah I never really liked the definition of racism = prejudice + power. People can get caught in the crossfire even if they aren't the ones in power, same with sexism. I hate ragebait like this because it's usually divisive for no gain to anyone.
I just don't know what to say because I was that person before. A lot of people men especially are extremely pigheaded and argumentative, and you can be justifiably upset at them. If your goal is to help women and further feminism though, even a "correct" gotcha like this makes people less receptive to feminism. It's just making enemies out of people who might be wrong, stubborn, and combative, which unfortunately is basically everyone at some point in their life.
So then he is misinformed, which many people are. I don't put someone into the "enemy" box for being misinformed or stubborn, that's pretty much the default state of most humans.
Well some people literally just don't realize that other people have problems they don't have, and don't look into it further or are actively told it's not a problem. Source: me from 13 to 16 until I watched a lot of speeches on it and talked to friends irl about it.
The only thing the guy said was wrong was that it's reverse sexism. If he said "so your main concern is improving things for women? That's not egalitarian unless you believe women have it much worse than men today." It's someone misinformed being told he's an enemy. Ragebait
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idk with the old shorts this was more true, but now if it's like a quick tips thing or just a preview of a longer video, so long as you're not scrolling shorts and only scarcely engage with the more informative ones, they seem to have a place. Youtube pushes them to be infinitely scrolled clickbait garbage though so that's probably the experience for 95% of people.