The exception here is that gamers are in fact the problem
The problem is, good luck spreading this message to radicalized reactionary public which doesn't consume your actual message, but a modified mass-media version of it... It's always the same issue
And they will deliberately "misinterpret" things. Everyone knows what is meant by "toxic masculinity." It has been explained thousands of times. Go to any misogynistic space and they will say it means "masculinity is wrong." It doesn't matter how many times you explain it. It doesn't matter how many feminist organizations or books on the subject you link to.
Fascists say the wrong things on purpose. Do not give them a benefit of the doubt.
A man who is definitely The Problem: “Look, I hate patriarchy just as much as you do”
Yeeeeah that's not selling me on the idea of letting straight white men wreck the Black liberation and self-determination formation. At all. If the individual won't acknowledge that they're perpetuating the systemic problem we fight, they have flagged themselves an opp.
If the individual won’t acknowledge that they’re perpetuating the systemic problem we fight
You win the thread.
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