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Bonobo

(29,257 posts)
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 12:43 AM Oct 2014

If someone says "Men" and "Whining" in the same post... [View all]

there is 99.99% likelihood that they are themselves guilty of the kind of gender-based stereotyping and ossification of gender roles that they are complaining about.

Why?

Because it perpetrates the stereotype that men shouldn't complain. To suggest it is "boyish" or "unmanly" is to be what you deride in others.

So, ladies and gents, check yerself before you wreck herself.

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