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Men in this country need to wake up and start caring about women's rights without needing to have a daughter to realise women are people too...
Internet posters in this country need to wake up and not make sweeping generalisations that sours the discourse around sensitive topics.
If the shoe fits...
For a while I too was like "not all men", but then I realized that muddying discourse with such rhetoric is counter-productive.
I know that I care about the rights of people who are not like me, and any talk about "men should wake up and start caring about X" doesn't detract from that. In fact I agree with it, so I stopped complaining about such sweeping statements.
If the shoe fits? Seriously? Fucking hell, mate. Would you say the same about minorities or people of colour? If the shoe fits and some of them are doing evil things then let's stop complaining about branding them all bad they all just me the same, right? Those are your principles? Please tell me that's not the case.
Why can't you simply say that some men are bad some men are good but I judge everyone on their actions and not naively on what they are?