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Originally Posted by roachboy
a device that enables "men" to communicate with each other---all of which presupposes that you buy an entire mythology of what being-male as a gender role entails--some caveman thing, i don't get it.
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Yes. Bolding mine, for emphasis. People don't usually take kindly to having their worldview--their sense of "entitlement" to talk and behave in whatever manner they feel is justifiable--questioned.
I encountered this same knee-jerk reaction when dealing with both high school and college students, particularly when teaching anthropology and cultural relativism. "I reserve the right to be disrespectful and rude towards people from different backgrounds, even in my class papers that you're grading me on! Don't you dare take that right away from me, and don't punish me for it, either!" Yeah, right. Welcome to the real world.