I'm a man, and I don't like it when the behaviour of Musk is viewed as typical men behaviour.
Yeah, it's one thing to be leery of men because any one of them could be dangerous. It's quite another to claim that men "tend to" defend rapists and child molesters unless it suits them.
Yeah, these are not typical men. They're narcissists.
Most men are disgusted by predators; however there are a not insignificant number of men out there that aren't.
You might be right, but that is not the claim that was made. Do you know other men who are predators? That was the subject.
No, the meme literally goes;
"Elon did this thing"
"This is how men act"
gotta love casual sexism against men being normalized and even celebrated
I'd replace men with narcissists because 100% of narcissists act like they don't know morals when it hits them in the face because they want to exploit and benefit from immoral and corrupt situations any way they can.
I would merge narcissists with predators like, we don't have a lot of strong evidence that Elon Musk is a predator of any particular type, but there's something going on there.
His actions are not the actions that you take when you have a clean conscience.
Strong narcissists cannot actually have a clean conscience. They are making shit up constantly. There is no dependency on reality.
I would call his space base or whatever a predatory colonization of Boca Chica. His companies hire new grads, burn them out, then dump them the second they slow. Plenty of stories of abuse and racism in Tesla factories. Strong-arming his ex wives over custody battles.
He's a predator, just maybe(as far as we know) not of the typical sexual variety.
I wouldn't be surprised if the venn diagram between narcissism and sociopathy is a near circle.
Hey. As a man, I resent being lumped in with Elon on this.
The whole "but they do the bad thing" is a what about-ism; and many of us don't associate with people who we need to do mental gymnastics to justify their actions.
If I had a friend or acquaintance who was a child r*pist, I would have one less friend or acquaintances the day I found that out. I don't need anyone in my life that I have to justify their actions because of how shitty they actually are. My life is complicated, and/or, difficult enough... I don't need people in it that add to that with their drama and/or felony criminal activity. I don't care how "important" or "influential" they are, I will just remove myself from the situation and politely decline any future interactions with that individual regardless of all other factors.
Since I started abiding by this philosophy, I've lost more "friends" than I care to count, but the friends I still have, are people actually worth knowing. They're people who make me better as a person. I hope they feel the same about me, but that's entirely up to them to make a decision about.
In any case. Generalizing an entire gender because of the actions of one dude? Not cool. That would be like if I based my opinions on women off of the example set by someone like Carla Homolka. First of all, fuck that bitch and the horse she rode in on; she should eat the curb for the horrors she has committed; but also, she is not an example by which anyone should base an opinion on, about women in general.
Elon may be arguably less horrible than Homolka, but I think I've made my point.
Not all men.
But still, way too many men.
Worse even that the standard lowers with an increasing imbalance in power.
Louder for everyone on this thread!!!!
This tweet sounds like it's from an incel
Isn’t the term “femcel”?
I thought femcels were different as they don't necessarily blame men for their issues?
I have a pretty low bar for posts from a comm called "witches vs patriarchy" and this still doesn't reach it. Get the fuck out with this trash.
As a man I read this not as "every single man would literally always protect a child rapist", but as "men tend to be loyal to their friends and would often only call them out on sexist behavior if an additional factor comes into play".
Yes, it's hyperbole. On the internet. In a meme community.
Locking this post as we've recieved reports of misandry in which I've personally also addressed in the comments.
If I'm being charitable to the person who wrote this. They mean that it's a thing done by men, but they didn't say all mean. I'd argue it's men like him, except one point. It's not just men. There are women who enable this too. Remember, Jeffery Epstein's right hand man, was a woman.
