85% neckbeards

I’m part of the problem, because I keep replying and giving you an audience, so consider this my last reply.

When someone is raising an issue, and you’re considering if you want to expand or generalize the topic, ask yourself “will the person with the issue benefit from what I’m about to say?”
If they wont, and they’re not hurting anyone, then maybe stfu, especially if you inhabit a position of power, in society, relative to them. If it’s still important to you, then go start another conversation elsewhere.

In this case, they won’t, and you probably do, and you insisted on speaking up here anyways, which makes you just like all the dudes trying to make this about themselves. You do not pass the vibe check.

I realize that the news show doesn’t necessarily reflect the Dem, but you know it does

You just can’t help yourself

Did my name give it away? 😏

But yes, I appreciate that sentiment 😩

One hell of a FUPA

Not to be pedantic (😏):

You got your first sentence backwards.
Nzi does always mean authoritarian, but authoritarian doesn’t always mean nzi.

I can’t bring myself to write the word, I feel like if I spell it out, I’ma be put on a list and start getting YouTube ads for Tate and shit.

Instructions unclear.
Got dick stuck in the upside-down

Even now, you’re trying to derail the conversation, which is about how women have to deal with this bullshit all the time online, and make it about a topic you care about.

You don’t need to participate, if this isn’t the subject that you want to talk about.

This isn’t a universal complaint about the frustration of whataboutism.

This is a specific complaint about how any time women try to talk about women’s issues in a forum that may contain men, those men engage in disingenuous whataboutism.

The men replying are almost never showing support, they’re minimizing the issue, or they’re trying to co-opt the thread.

It doesn’t need to be a uniquely woman’s issue for it to be a predominantly women’s issue.
And it doesn’t need to be a predominantly woman’s issue for women to want to talk about it from a woman’s perspective without men making it about them.

As someone with a loud car, I can confirm

The downvotes are insane when you’re demonstrably right.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the opposite, where the dude is holding a reasonable opinion or complaint.

Meanwhile this comment section is an example of the comic itself

I feel like that’s a pretty gross misrepresentation of the issue.

The people in the comic (and in the comments here) are often trying to minimize the issue on which she is speaking, or co-opt the conversation for their own issues (typically forcing her and the original issue to the sidelines). They’re not adding context or having a discussion in good faith.

The comic is about how when people speak online online about women’s issues, dudes keep trying to make it about dudes.

The comic itself is someone talking online about women’s issues, and the comments are all men trying to make it about them.

It’s remarkably similar.

You’re right, and we all know who downvoted you

The way this comment section unironically mirrors the comic perfectly.

So many dudes here unironically talking about how men have it hard too 🤦‍♂️

Isn’t that game one of the most successful and popular games of the decade? If that didn’t get traffic here it’d be absolute shambles

There are topics here I imagine would get traffic, like a community for sharing hilariously bad code, or a popular video game, etc.

But if your niche strays from the handful of common lemming niches, then you’re kind of out of luck.

Edit: upon re-reading, i had misunderstood you.

There is no specific niche community I was talking about, I meant that any time I look for a niche interest (outside computers), it’s a ghost town. Especially if it’s for something local.

This community was just a few km down the road from my elementary school. Across from my post office, back when people still used post offices.