So I got dumped in 2014. I discovered Bill Burr's You People Are All The Same standup routine, and for my broken hearted self then, it spoke to me. For those of you don't know, Burr jokes about women unable to have a rational argument, and using cheap debate tricks and emotional ploys to win arguments with men. Sorry, but the place I was in wasn't great. My thinking towards Burr in early 2015 was "OMG this guy is funny", late 2015 was "this is funny, but problematic", then in 2016 "OMG this guy is a fascist".

Another time I randomly found a dating app and profile on a girlfriend's phone when I was trying to connect her phone to the smart TV. There was a 45 minute space of time where I channeled all the hurt I ever felt in my past, and I started to think "yes all women are inherently selfish and deceitful". For that time, I was quite literally open to red-pill ideology. Thankfully I shook out of it. Having a support network to whinge about my pain helped too.

One bazillion percent, the dudes in my life have been worse than the women. Long term misogyny seems impossible.

  • Mast3rMuft1 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    "It is one thing to occasionally make content that is interpreted a certain way, it happens not every artist can have that much control over how the social media is going to react on a daily basis."

    Yea thats a good point, I've seen quite a few Bill Burr clips and there are definitely more than a couple which are very low brow / bordering chud behaviour, so it is more of a repeated situation with him.

    Not everything comes down to personal responsibility bullshit. Talking about media literacy is a cop out when certain artists deliberately make their content appealing for a specific low brow audience.

    Yea you make a good point I concede