Why All Men
Tuesday, April 16th, 2024 -- by Bacchus
You’ve never heard any “not all men” nonsense from me in these pages. Since the earliest days of the “Me Too” movement, I have understood that the collective noun “men” should not be understood as a categorical accusation. If the shoe makes you uncomfortable, man, you need to wear it anyway; and if it doesn’t? Congrats to you! But we live in a world where it is known that a hit dog hollers. Saying “not all men” is hollering, and thus it’s an automatic way to align yourself with all the problematic men out there.
That said, before today I had never encountered the brilliant analogy in the video below. The analogy drives home the point that even if “not all men” is literally true, it’s not usefully true for women; in fact, it’s anti-useful, perhaps even dangerous:
Found here. Transcript follows:
00:00 Nah, nah.
00:00 You say you don’t understand why women say all men,
00:02 but really you do.
00:03 You understand that logic because you like guns, right?
00:06 True. And what’s one of the first safety tips they give you about guns
00:09 is treat every gun like it’s loaded.
00:11 Like it’s loaded, right? Exact.
00:13 Even if you know it’s not loaded,
00:15 all guns are loaded. Right?
00:17 That’s how you have this.
00:18 That’s how you look at every gun.
00:19 Because you can’t look at somebody’s gun
00:21 and tell if it’s loaded or not, right?
00:23 Women are doing the exact same thing.
00:25 Cause any man could be her assailant.
00:27 She can’t look at a man and be like, oh,
00:28 that’s the good one.
00:29 So she treats all men like they’re potentially, the same way we do guns.
00:34 It’s the same.
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