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The blatant sexism on Urban Dictionary

CommandoDudeCommandoDude
edited 2011-10-19 22:28:24 in General
CRIMINAL SCUM!
Never have I found a hive of such man bashing.

Anything labeled under men is basically insulting at best. Most everything under women glorifies them.

Anything about feminism being good is upvoted a tone. But anything about misandry being a bunch of bullshit is downvoted to hell. Any definition with the word "men's rights" in it, that isn't defacing it to hell gets downvoted into oblivion.

Just about everything having to do with the female gender is defined properly, and everything having to do with men is just a ton of insulting crap.

Comments

  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    (void)
    >men's rights
    >laughinggirls.jpg
  • CommandoDudeCommandoDude
    CRIMINAL SCUM!
    Some people are actually concerned with how fathers get shafted in custody.

    Or how women get off easy in court.
  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    inb4genderwankshitstorm
  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-10-19 22:36:08
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    We already have one serious gender thread, can we like... not have another?  Those never go anywhere good.

    Also, eh, it's Urban Dictionary.  It's not the Webster Dictionary.
  • CommandoDudeCommandoDude
    edited 2011-10-19 22:38:25
    CRIMINAL SCUM!


    /dealwithit

    it bugs me
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    That misandry is generally more accepted in our culture disturbs me, but I'm not concerned about people being idiots on a website like that.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    Men's and women's rights don't have to be separate issues. One of the core -- perhaps the core -- elements of feminism is giving women personal agency over their lives and imbuing wider society with an appreciation for a woman's capacity at any given task. Women having an advantage in the legal situations you point out is a result of the current perceptual gap that exists, where the percieved physical and psychological aspects of men are seen as more aggressive or less satisfactory for care, or where women are considered less likely to be harmful.

    It's a situation that is both misandrist and mysogynist. As the personal agency of women becomes more appreciated along with their capacities, this should naturally cease to be a problem as the gender gap is thinned out. In short, as women gain recognition for what they can, in reality, do and are ready for, men will benefit legally as women will no longer be considered vulnerable.
  • BlackHumorBlackHumor
    edited 2011-10-19 22:59:04
    Eh, this is the same urban dictionary that has a LOT of misogynistic things floating around it?

    I mean, totally give them credit for having 10,000 likes on their definition of feminism, but you gotta actually put in the effort to not be sexist, guys.
  • CommandoDudeCommandoDude
    CRIMINAL SCUM!
    ^^ Yet women's rights movements, which espouse the ideal of an 'equal society' refuse to work towards, or even acknowledge that men are in many cases, treated worse then women as a result of pursuing rights for women.

    ^ That's not very misogynistic. Hell, the definitions are more offensive to other men than women.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    I agree that women's rights and men's rights should be considered to be a single issue on the whole, but when feminism and masculinism are taken to mean different things, it kind of makes me doubt that the people who take these labels are at that stage.
  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.
    This sounds like every Leigh Sabio rant reversed.
  • captainbrasscaptainbrass
    No, it's like every Leigh Sabio rant, full stop. She's an advocate of men's rights, as I understand it.
  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.
    Ah.

    Ok then.
  • GhilzGhilz
    Who?
  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    (void)
    Bradamante here, I think.
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    Some chick.
  • AHRAHR
    I think both are pretty important, it's just that people seem to think it can only be one or the other. 

    ----

    "Women suffer from marriage because X."

    "So? Men suffer too!"

    ----

    "Men suffer from society because X."

    "So? Women suffer as well!"

    ----

    The problem here is both the instigator and the defender. Neither are willing to say "gee, people in general are harmed by these stereotypes.

    Or maybe I'm just generalizing.
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    So how about we just say "People suffer because of x" and stop doing x.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Because x tends to be a concept that is kept either because of tradition or at least a level of usefulness that tends to somewhat justify the keeping around. what we should do is modify x, not just ditch it out.
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