r/youtubehaiku • u/Fuck_Alice • Dec 15 '17

Meme [Haiku] The True Power of the Patriarchy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nqzcj70uxw
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u/hexane360 Dec 15 '17

And part of toxic masculinity is the idea that men aren't victims, especially to women (because they're weak according to patriarchy).

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '17

men being able to be victims /=/ men arent in social power

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u/hexane360 Dec 15 '17

Exactly. OP said what amounted to "men are able to be victims" and you replied with essentially "but they're in power!"

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '17

that is a massive simplification of the argument and is intellectually dishonest.

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u/hexane360 Dec 15 '17

I'll admit it's hard to understand exactly what you're arguing here. Why do you think "women aren't in power" is a good comment to argue that male victims gendering their female perpetrators is fundamentally incomparable to female victims gendering their male perpetrators?