Rabble Blogging

ryking:

rabblevolunteer:

rabblevolunteer:

…

REALLY? Are you fucking kidding me!? So you think this is the appropriate response when women accuse you of “mansplaining”? REALLY?

I agreed with you when you were talking about the complaining in regards to the 19th amendment, I got where you were coming from, but this…

I don’t care about how you intended it. Grow the fuck up and move on. I’m sorry you felt ganged up on. I am. But posting this is absolutely offensive, regardless of your intent and it’s not really helping your first point.

I think it raises a good point: What DO women like the one who railed against the amendment want? To rehash historical wrongs ad nauseum? To dwell on the negative instead of embracing the positive? Is it impossible to appreciate something that’s imperfect? Is equality a joke and power a zero-sum game for all? Are white men going to be cast as the villain for the rest of eternity? Just. Fucking. Curious. — Ryking

I agree that sometimes it seems like things are never enough and no one can appreciate the accomplishments we’ve made (as in society, not women collectively) but posting this (even as a rhetorical joke) is not helping your argument and, to me, it made you look like a major tool. There’s nothing wrong with celebrating social accomplishments and there’s nothing wrong with reminding ourselves that more can be done to make the world better but making what boils down to a “sandwich joke” about revoking the 19th amendment isn’t helping your point about celebrating it when jokes like that are still made. And you (who argued we should celebrate it for the amazing accomplishment it was in the 1920s) perpetuating something like this is only helping undermine the overall accomplishment rather than celebrate it.