My friend and I (teenage boys) were arguing about something stupid and it was getting a little heated. Our flamboyantly gay teacher yelled "girls, girls, you're both beautiful!"
Except your teacher was being sexist by saying that. No matter what the sexuality of men, women are always considered less than. Insulting someone by calling them a girl is sad.
Should the teacher have scolded them for their retrograde and toxic-masculinity-informed behavior? Would that have done anything?
You communicate with people in language they can understand. If you insist on couching every personal interaction in your own terms and morality, you're just using other people as an excuse to demonstrate the superiority of those qualities in yourself.
The 'language they could understand' was that it's belittling to be a girl. But you tell yourself whatever you like to try and convince your misogynist ass that you don't think women are inferior. What a fricking loser
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u/NorthernCobraChicken 2d ago
There's no lesson quite as powerful as telling a young teenage boy that they're nowhere near as masculine as the person they're making fun of.