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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

This data is the World world, not just "America world".

Also, if men are going right, then the left needs to step up their offering.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 10 months ago (58 children)

"When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (13 children)

While this is true, it's also true that pendulum swings can go further in the opposite direction than equality.

While a trite example, in the recent Barbie film, at the end when things are going back to the seemingly good way, the men in Barbieland ask if they can have a seat on the supreme court and are told no, which is then explained as Barbieland being a mirror to the real world such that as there's increased equality in the real world then equality for men in the mirror would increase.

Apparently the writers weren't familiar with the fact there's four women on the supreme court right now and a woman has been on the court since 1981 (around twice as close to the creation of Barbie than to the present day).

Even in the context of its justifiably imbalanced equality it failed to be proportionally imbalanced.

There's interesting research around how the privileged underestimate the degree to which the good things that happen to them are because of privilege, but that at the same time the underprivileged overestimate how often the bad things which happen are because of bias. In theory both are ego-preserving adaptations. But it also means that either side is going to have a difficult time correctly identifying equality from their relative subjective perspectives.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

While a trite example, in the recent Barbie film

You mean self aware, hyperbolic satire?

They know there have been women on the supreme court. It was a reference to second wave feminism, and inverted because that was the joke.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

While you are welcome to your take, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and here's the writer/director responding to that very scene:

Li: Speaking of those video clips, let’s talk more about the ending. Can you tell me about the decision to have the Barbies and Kens reach, not a definitive solution, but kind of a détente? President Barbie, played by Issa Rae, does not allow Ken a seat on the Supreme Court. They’re still figuring things out.

Gerwig: We’re all still figuring things out—that’s part of it. But the only thing I could ever give anyone is that they’re all still in the mess. Maybe it’s a little better for the Kens. You don’t want to tell people how to watch things, but at the end of the movie, the production design incorporates some of Ken’s fascinations into Barbie Land. Like, the perfection is not as beautiful as the thing that started blending everything together. I remember when we went to shoot the finale, when we all walked on set, we were like, This is the most beautiful it’s ever been.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

We tried that, ended up with a bunch of grifters coming in, doing a bunch of damage, and then making "why I left the left" videos.

There is a path of healing but it's not going to happen until they address their white supremacy and take it behind the shed.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

This "data" is hilarious. You should read the article it's attached to. They throw these charts up and then just use 4 or 5 anecdotes to take a victory lap for conservatism.