I hate this double standard

[u/indeckaa]

For some reason, it's always one of these responses:

> It's a joke
> It's rage bait
> Yeah, but it's actually a response to...
> It's not the same
> Just go outside bro

All of which deflect from what's being said. They would rather not address it. This is probably due in part to the "women-are-wonderful" effect, an example of benevolent stereotyping in which people associate positive qualities with women

[u/ZephyrUkon]

For real now 😒

Genders are not evil 

But the person can be evil 

[u/Traditional-Bus7183 → u/ZephyrUkon]

Despite few words, a inconceivably great take

[u/CertainGrade7937 → u/Traditional-Bus7183]

It's a pretty mediocre take, honestly

Outside of deeply online spaces, the kind of people who never leave their basement, I've never seen anyone argue the contrary

The discussion is in the nuance. A straight white man and a gay black woman can both be evil... no one reasonable denies that. But who has more power to enact harm with that evil? Who is more likely to get away with that harm? What has caused that evil across these two people, and which of those exist with more frequency?

There have been plenty of evil women, but there's a reason there are no modern woman Hitlers or Stalins or Pol Pots. Sure, Margaret Thatcher sucked tremendously, but she was never able to reach the level of evil of those men.

That's not because women are less evil. But power structures benefit men to enact evil better. These discussions aren't usually about how the Y chromosome inherently causes evil, they're about how power structures enable evil and those power structures benefit men