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#MenAreTrash - Kill the Hashtag Reality Speaker
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#MenAreTrash - I support the cause. It is one which desperately needs to be understood. I do not support the hashtag. It is a shallow and short sighted tag which the MAJORIT of men will not embrace. So, whyninsist on using it. Because it raises awareness. Sure. More than this, it draws attention? Well, put it this way, the main response to it, by men, will be ... "but I'm not trash". Whereas a hashtag like #RapistsAreTrash will mainly be responded to with agreement.
Take a 9 or 12 or 15 year old kid. Who is going to explain to him all the psychological and philosophical meanings which we apply to the hashtag - no matter how well intended. Why can we not just use self-explanatory hashtags which even a kid can relate to. Why are we insisting on using one they can't. Kill the hashtag #MenAreTrash. More than this, tell men hiw you feel, tell men what they have been doing for centuries, tell men their role has changed and they need to adapt. Tell men they patriarchy is something that is controlling and destroying the relationship between humans and the sexes. Don't tell men they are trash. Don't tell men how to feel. Don't tell men how to respond. We really need to start talking to each other and not AT each other!
Are we so out of touch with ourselves and each other that we use hashtags to express ourselves and attack each other? Are we so shallow that we can no longer use plain language to describe our pain, both individual and collective? Women and children are being murdered and raped, but because of emotion and bias hashtags have become a battering ram. Fuck that! We need to have conversations. The hashtag is contributing to the murder and rape. If we cannot see this, then just look at the increase of rape over time. The hashtag MenAreTrash
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#MenAreTrash - I support the cause. It is one which desperately needs to be understood. I do not support the hashtag. It is a shallow and short sighted tag which the MAJORIT of men will not embrace. So, whyninsist on using it. Because it raises awareness. Sure. More than this, it draws attention? Well, put it this way, the main response to it, by men, will be ... "but I'm not trash". Whereas a hashtag like #RapistsAreTrash will mainly be responded to with agreement.
Take a 9 or 12 or 15 year old kid. Who is going to explain to him all the psychological and philosophical meanings which we apply to the hashtag - no matter how well intended. Why can we not just use self-explanatory hashtags which even a kid can relate to. Why are we insisting on using one they can't. Kill the hashtag #MenAreTrash. More than this, tell men hiw you feel, tell men what they have been doing for centuries, tell men their role has changed and they need to adapt. Tell men they patriarchy is something that is controlling and destroying the relationship between humans and the sexes. Don't tell men they are trash. Don't tell men how to feel. Don't tell men how to respond. We really need to start talking to each other and not AT each other!
Are we so out of touch with ourselves and each other that we use hashtags to express ourselves and attack each other? Are we so shallow that we can no longer use plain language to describe our pain, both individual and collective? Women and children are being murdered and raped, but because of emotion and bias hashtags have become a battering ram. Fuck that! We need to have conversations. The hashtag is contributing to the murder and rape. If we cannot see this, then just look at the increase of rape over time. The hashtag MenAreTrash
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reality-speaker/message
6 min