Men say that women are weak, fragile, and all that sorts of stuff all the time, women already deal with that. Men who are like this, cannot take the same kind of flak, which inherently proves the point that they are fragile.
Pointing out anyone’s fragile ego isn’t a bad thing. Women by and large tend to not do this, while a lot more men do have this issue. That’s why it’s a big meme in the first place, this is why men respond to this sort of thing in a very defensive way.
Pointing out anyone’s fragile ego isn’t a bad thing.
Pointing out a person’s fragile ego based on an experience of such isn’t a bad thing, but generalizing this conclusion to an entire group of people (where the group is defined by a single characteristic such as race/sex/gender/religion/culture/etc) is a bad thing.
To put it another way, one sample is bad statistics.
A better version of this might say “Many of the men I meet seem to have fragile egos” or even “Most of the men I know [etc]”. This could be a valid statement supported by the individual’s experience, and avoids the sexism displayed in the comic.
Correct. Saying all men are rapist’s is sexist. However, in this meme, she says sometimes. She even says it quietly as to keep her opinion quiet and to themselves. However all the men around somehow heard and complain that they do not infact have fragile egos.
Men getting upset over the possibility of being targeted, not even directly, is proving the point that men are being fragile about their egos.
This is a meme, but it exists because of the prevalence of the issue of a lot of men being overly defensive for no damn reason.
Yeah this is vague. The sentence: “Sometimes men’s egos can be so fragile” can be read as meaning that all men’s egos are sometimes fragile, or it could mean that some men’s egos are always fragile. But the use of “sometimes” implies a variance with time (e.g. not with person) which makes the first interpretation a better fit.
If the second meaning was intended, then the sentence should be restated to avoid the apparent sexism.
You could also say that the meaning is that some men’s egos are sometimes fragile, but I don’t think that interpretation is valid because then the ending of comic doesn’t make sense.
I think this whole thread not talking about the why’s but talking about the double standards, sexism against men and the nit picking of the meme kind of just proves the memes point.
Men say that women are weak, fragile, and all that sorts of stuff all the time, women already deal with that. Men who are like this, cannot take the same kind of flak, which inherently proves the point that they are fragile.
Yes, but when men say those things it is unacceptable, so by the same logic shouldn’t this meme be unacceptable or is it a double standard?
Pointing out anyone’s fragile ego isn’t a bad thing. Women by and large tend to not do this, while a lot more men do have this issue. That’s why it’s a big meme in the first place, this is why men respond to this sort of thing in a very defensive way.
Pointing out a person’s fragile ego based on an experience of such isn’t a bad thing, but generalizing this conclusion to an entire group of people (where the group is defined by a single characteristic such as race/sex/gender/religion/culture/etc) is a bad thing.
To put it another way, one sample is bad statistics.
A better version of this might say “Many of the men I meet seem to have fragile egos” or even “Most of the men I know [etc]”. This could be a valid statement supported by the individual’s experience, and avoids the sexism displayed in the comic.
Correct. Saying all men are rapist’s is sexist. However, in this meme, she says sometimes. She even says it quietly as to keep her opinion quiet and to themselves. However all the men around somehow heard and complain that they do not infact have fragile egos.
Men getting upset over the possibility of being targeted, not even directly, is proving the point that men are being fragile about their egos.
This is a meme, but it exists because of the prevalence of the issue of a lot of men being overly defensive for no damn reason.
Yeah this is vague. The sentence: “Sometimes men’s egos can be so fragile” can be read as meaning that all men’s egos are sometimes fragile, or it could mean that some men’s egos are always fragile. But the use of “sometimes” implies a variance with time (e.g. not with person) which makes the first interpretation a better fit.
If the second meaning was intended, then the sentence should be restated to avoid the apparent sexism.
You could also say that the meaning is that some men’s egos are sometimes fragile, but I don’t think that interpretation is valid because then the ending of comic doesn’t make sense.
Either way, the word always was not used.
I think this whole thread not talking about the why’s but talking about the double standards, sexism against men and the nit picking of the meme kind of just proves the memes point.
I suppose thats fair, you can make the argument that the meme is a reaction rather than a random attack.
Exactly, if you’re a man and find this meme funny, it’s not about you. If you get upset about it, then its about you.