Admit One

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As I stated before, the member of an opressive group has no right to claim what the oppressed should feel. As a male in the gaming community, you aren't likely to experience the harassament the female gamer has. Threats of rape, violence, humiliating inferences about their sex life (or lack thereof), and their general worthiness to be called a 'gamer' is something even I can attest to, something my male friends never seem to get.
It's not a consipracy, it's simple fact. As a male, you don't have the first hand experience. Just as a white person in America, I have no right to belittle the experiences of a person of color, so you do not have the right to tell a female what her experiences 'probably' are/were.

But that's the thing: I'm not a member of an oppressive group, in fact I hoped you would have noticed that that was an integral point in my argument. The idea that men oppress women is childish. Certain men oppress certain women, and the system has numerous regrettable kinks in it at the moment, but there is no conspiracy. And when did I ever claim that females should feel a certain way, or even claim to truly know what they go through (or perceive they go through)? Even so, are you saying it is impossible or not allowed for someone to be sympathetic towards another person's struggles simply because they do not experience said struggles themselves? I have a pretty good guess what being discriminated against on the basis of sex feels like, and I do not in any way support it.

Is the opinion of a male chauvinist who went through extreme persecution by females, say by growing up in a household with nine sisters and no father, automatically worth more because he knows what it's like? And you can't say he doesn't just because he's not a female being oppressed by males, because otherwise you too are employing a double standard, which you ostensibly advocate against. Why should people like me, who advocate pure unfiltered democracy among the sexes (because it is the only option that makes any rational sense), be ridiculed and discriminated against because we lack the experience?

Again, I'm not so conceited to say that females do not have any type of social problem. I merely wanted to point out the glaring contradictions in Alardem's post.