Knoyleo wrote:Going back to the earlier discussion of radical language, and dialing it back to appeal to a wider audience, I totally get that optics are important, but I also don't feel a statement like "men are trash" is even a particularly radical statement, especially given the context in the original post. This was a female game streamer, putting up with a load of harassment from men. Isn't trash a pretty commonly used negative descriptor in games chat anyway? "Hanzo mains are trash," "that game's pay to win trash," "Activision Blizzard are trash," and so on.
If she'd gone on from saying men are trash, and continued into a lengthy monologue about The Scum Manifesto and how Solanas was right, then maybe that would be radical, but on its own, its a young woman lashing out at some trash men, in a field where male voices are dominant and will always be given priority.
It’s not all that radical a statement and she wasn’t wrong to say it.
But it doesn’t move anything forward. The people that agree with her already agree with her, the people that disagree with her now have an additional stick to beat her with and those who don’t know anything about it are only hearing that she called every single man trash.
“All men are trash” doesn’t offend me, but I see enough alt-right bullshit online to know exactly how they will use that to abuse more women and also to convince more people to their “bloody crazy feminists eh!” ideas.