NNewt84

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Being gay, black, female, whatever doesn't mean you have to be a caricature.

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You’re aware that women aren’t a minority, right? They make up roughly half the population.

And yes, I know the SJW crowd considers women a “minority” and that’s what you’re referring to, but my point is, we’re supposed to be debunking that mindset, not agreeing with it. We’re supposed to point out that being a woman is not the same as being black or gay, as women are very much ubiquitous in society, and there even exist racist and homophobic women. (Just Google “Karen” sometime.) I’m not saying it’s good for women to be racist or any kind of discriminatory, but the fact that those women exist shows that they’re not one and the same with minority groups.

And yes, I get that to us men, it makes sense to lump women in with minority groups, because we see our own gender as the “default” one, as that’s what we’ve known our whole lives. But to a woman, the reverse is true - they see being female as the “default” condition, while men are the “other” gender that’s more distinctive in their otherness. So to them, it makes more sense to lump men in with minority groups such as black and LGBT people, and we see this on shows with female protagonists, such as Hilda and Punky Brewster, where the white female protagonist has a token black friend and a token male friend, instead of the more stereotypical token female we see on shows with male protagonists. In other words, men/boys are treated as the token gender, because men are a gender as well.

Also, I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but… men face sexism as well. Women typically get custody of their kids over men, men get drafted, women get hired over men in a lot of cases, men get longer prison sentences, women can hit men but not vice versa, women’s issues are taken more seriously than those of men… need I go on? So once again, it’s men being treated like just another minority group, just like black or LGBT people, so why anyone, especially the people who are supposed to be anti-SJW, views women as a minority, is beyond me. It’s like the idea of women as a minority is so ingrained in society that the idea that they could possibly make up half the population is simply unfathomable to most people, despite the overwhelming amount of evidence.

Just… go out and actually meet women sometime. You’ll see that they’re surprisingly common.