beanedtoes:

Another thing that’s grievously wrong with today’s mainstream feminism/social justice is just the complete inability to name male violence and men as a whole as a problem. It’s always “cis men” or “white men” or “straight boys”. It’s never men.

Earlier on Twitter I saw a quote tweet of a photo of some Italian screen writer or something wearing a shirt that said “Weinstein is innocent” and the person who quote tweeted it ended with “white men really are the worst” and it’s just… an avoidance of naming the problem. If you stick “white” on there, you’re making it a race issue. You’re making it seem like this mans defense of a serial rapist and abuser is because he is white, not because he’s a man. As if black men, Asian men, Latino men, etc would never say such a thing which is just… wrong. And it’s not “problematic” to say that.

It absolves him of responsibility as a man in a way while muddling the conversation, and it takes away our ability to come together and name the source of this problem, which is men. But modern SJ makes naming male violence as a problem “problematic.”