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    2 days ago

    This isn’t a universal complaint about the frustration of whataboutism.

    This is a specific complaint about how any time women try to talk about women’s issues in a forum that may contain men, those men engage in disingenuous whataboutism.

    The men replying are almost never showing support, they’re minimizing the issue, or they’re trying to co-opt the thread.

    It doesn’t need to be a uniquely woman’s issue for it to be a predominantly women’s issue.
    And it doesn’t need to be a predominantly woman’s issue for women to want to talk about it from a woman’s perspective without men making it about them.




  • I feel like that’s a pretty gross misrepresentation of the issue.

    The people in the comic (and in the comments here) are often trying to minimize the issue on which she is speaking, or co-opt the conversation for their own issues (typically forcing her and the original issue to the sidelines). They’re not adding context or having a discussion in good faith.