Demanding to Be Taught The Two Times Tables

Don’t interrupt if you don’t know the basics

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Sometimes commenters try to respond to arguments nobody has made, seemingly to address their own personal obsessions, rather than engage with the subject matter. I’ve discussed what I think of that elsewhere.

Learn critical analysis and use it in your comments.

Recently, a man who didn’t understand the concept of systemic oppression insisted on talking at me. I’d like to thank him for being my muse for this wee blog post.

Instead of discussing the topic or replying to my comment relevantly, in his reflexive anger at any woman who doesn’t kowtow he tried to shift the argument to a complaint I wasn’t interested in, namely his own personal hurt feelings when imaginary individual women are unkind to imaginary individual men.

If you wish to enter a discussion on systemic oppression, you must first educate yourself on the concept.

Well, I mean you don’t have to. You can just look silly and have someone shut you down, if you prefer.