Understanding men - eviltoast
  • Donkter@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I think this is a tongue-in-cheek jab at the very real issue of men who try to write women who literally don’t have any women in their lives except possibly their mothers.

    • bstix@feddit.dk
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      10 months ago

      Is that actually a very real issue, or is just another stereotype? The whole thing is so meta.

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        10 months ago

        A little of both. I think it was a more common issue a few decades ago and I know it was a common theme on the internet in the 2000s now that a new generation discovers it over and over it kind of perpetuates as a stereotype but I know male writers are so much better about it today than years ago for the same reason.

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      10 months ago

      The reply is also tongue-in-cheek, it’s just when you pluck these things out of their context and put them as screenshots on a different website in front of people who dont’ follow the individuals involved, you end up with goofy takes about it.

      Also, not for nothing, the way this was screenshot feels like somebody wanted to dunk on the Female Woman Writer instead of reading it in the spirit it was written.

    • PopcornTin@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      That’s reading a lot into the post. Her profile says she’s a feminist cartoonist. This is standard virtue signaling. She is such a great feminist, against the patriarchy, she doesn’t know a single one. You still know you’re father, brother, male coworkers? You’re not on her level.