He said that people shouldn't be so dismissive about men's issues. He said men and women are more equal now and people act like it's still the 80s. I said if it's 80s to worry about women's issues what is it to worry about men's issues? Are we worried about when the fertility cults were so big in Europe? You are worried about men's issues? That's so 10k BCs of you! Things really progressed when the pharaohs took over! Time to move on!

From now on, whenever I hear anything about men's issues I am going to say, "Stop being so retro! this isn't the 10k BCs!"

    • Chomsky [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      The exact context was that there was a side by side picture of two fighting game characters, one male and one female. One was a male that was very buff with large muscles and the other was a female that way thin with large breasts. Both were the so called western ideal of beauty, more or less. His point was to show that it's the same for men and women that we had unrealistic beauty standards. I responded that while that is true, there is a deeper layer here whereby the are both difficult to achieve standards, but they also perpetuate patriarchy because despite being a supposed fighting character, the female is represented as weak looking relative to the male. I linked some random pictures of male and female MMA fighters and showed that, while the male fighter seemed pretty accurate to real life, the female didn't seem to represent the norm for a trained fighter.

      At this point he said I was being hypocritical and that it's the same for both genders that it's unrealistic standards, I'm favoring women, it's not the 80s etc. At this point that argument that male save female representations in pop culture art conveyed differing and layered meanings, which to me strikes me as a bit of a truism, had gone on for over an hour and I was sick of it and came up with the 10k BCs bit as a means of "trollin'."