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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Author is painting men as needing forgiveness as if we're just crossing lines like it's our nature.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's patriarchy baby. Same genesis as "boys will be boys" or basically that males can't control themselves, so society needs adapt to their fickle moods

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Isn't that also the basis of the gay panic defense, that a man loses control of his body in response to being "tricked" into the gay or whatever shit they say.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's the gay panic defense. We have to specify because the police also commonly use a panic defense. Like when they shoot into a crowd and claim someone charged them. (Yes they did that, the NYPD, no they haven't released body cam footage yet, no nobody else is supporting their story)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's true, damn, there really shouldn't be any panic defense at all. Someone who "loses control of their body" still committed a crime, and while in certain cases recognition and rehabilitation can help, them "losing control" or "panicking" is not an excuse for something they still did. If being drunk isn't an excuse panic shouldn't be one either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Same basic logic as the cases where someone ties their victim to a bed, fetches some accelerant, douses them and sets them on fire in self defense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Perhaps I should play the part assigned to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Noooo don't do that, you're so pretty lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Call it a hunch

If you feel pretty and you act pretty then you are pretty

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't really know what pretty feels like. Closest allegory I've got is "got to be good looking cuz you're so hard to please!" And I am certainly hard to please.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well that's not nothing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shhh it's not sexism be quiet.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure it is, and no.