It feels like every time I end up on a more general subreddit, I’m bombarded with sexism (not to mention racism/homophobia).
I saw an interesting graph of female educational attainment. Oh wow, yeah. Women doing better than men. That’s cool. Is it going to be a discussion of how propaganda regarding “real Americans being blue collar” effecting men more, or how men are generally able to make it in careers that don’t require a college degree? Maybe even a noticing of the fact that the line was “Well if you didn’t want to be poor, go to college!” until women, particularly black women, did and now the line has shifted to college being a stupid waste of time and money? Is it going to talk about how the education gap has led to ideas that being educated is “gay” and feminine, leading to more men falling for right wing propaganda in a cycle that creates extremism?
Nope. It’s talking about how education exists for women, and THEY won’t do scholarships for men, and women want to make sure a man can never get ahead in life. They talk about how women are somehow preventing men from applying, and when someone points out that actually, in many cases, affirmative action is now favoring men as a result of this, especially in fields like biology or education, the top response is “wow you’re condescending” with no interaction with the point.
It’s highly upvoted diatribes about how the world is against men, and no one will help them! As if when women were the ones disadvantaged MEN were the ones who helped us. As if the reason black women are now so highly educated isn’t because society didn’t allow them any other way forward and shamed them as ignorant and welfare queens, even as they dominate high paying fields, but because white men just wanted to be nice and help them out.
It’s like being flashbanged by the reminder that most people don’t have common sense and it’s exhausting.