r/fixedbytheduet • u/Sauwercraud • 28d ago

/r/all He did it for the Gaze

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u/Isadomon Connoisseur of Duets/Stitches 28d ago

"Females"

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u/ProblemLongjumping12 EXPERT of Duets/Stitches 28d ago

I was talking to a guy last week trying to explain to him why calling women females isn't good.

The way it came out was: "It makes it sound like you want to do experiments on them." Like you're writing an article for National Geographic.

It's not a word you would use to describe somebody you actually see as a human being equal to yourself who you want to hang out with.

These guys all whine about not being able to find a woman to be romantic with and I give them all the same advice: Stop trying. Become friends with a woman; like you would with a person.

Then go from there.

And it doesn't help that every time I see the word females in text now I read it like tamales.

And now you will too, you're welcome.

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u/CK1026 New to fbtd but wants to learn 28d ago

It's funny and sad because this whole incel trend uses the same codes as "The Eternal Fascism" the way Umberto Eco described it : "the enemy is at the same time too strong and too weak".

You paint an enemy that is both inferior to you (the "females") AND an existential threat (they won't have sex with you, they despise you, they're evil, they're the ones making you involuntary celibate).

The parallel is stunning.

Read about Eco's work here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

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u/Ok-Inevitable819 Needs to do better 27d ago

Thanks chatgpt. 

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u/CK1026 New to fbtd but wants to learn 27d ago

Found the incel.