(December 29, 2017 at 7:55 pm)Tizheruk Wrote:
(December 29, 2017 at 2:56 pm)wallym Wrote: I was thinking along these lines earlier, about how the US is basically the white dudes of the world. And all our 'serious concerns' more or less make us the MRA when you contrast us with how most of the population of the world lives.
Oh, you have to pay 10 bucks of your own money for birth control? I hope you can tell me more about the insurmountable hurdles you face after I'm finished being stoned to death because someone raped me! - Arabic lady
Whataboutism
Just because social struggles are different in different places does not mean they are not struggles . And just because they are not the same level of extremes does not matter .
That's the joke. American white women dismissing american white male's complaints is silly, because to a large swath of the rest of the world, american white women's complaints are proportionately just as trivial.
I think the argument to be made, is to recognize your 'struggles' place in the context of human existence, and try to react at least somewhat accordingly.
Net neutrality, or someone not making you a cake, or alimony laws sometimes stink. But is that enough for to justify being unhappy when you're living in a 1st world country in one of the top 3 or 4 best years to be alive in the 200,000,000 year history of mankind?
