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Artist makes a post on tumblr showing how a certain comic book artist, (the Joe Q. who didn't ruin Spider-Man) is good at drawing women's breasts that actually look like women's breasts.

Several reblogs later, two people have explained why, exactly, the more realistic breasts are preferable to the usual pneumatic monsters we normally see.

Someone calls out the post by saying "well drawn sexism is still sexism", and "Nothing like a little outright, unabashed objectification from a liberal to remind me why I’m not one."

To which a person I'm following responds "Oh, right, that’s how you miss a point entirely."

Also on their tumblr is a reblog of a post about how male sex drive in America is, among other things, portrayed as predatory, like in American Psycho. Which is weird, because I saw American Psycho, and Bateman explicitly states that he can't really feel much of anything. Even his romantic/sexual relationships are portrayed as false and hollow. I think the person who wrote it was just looking for films with "American" in the title and just saw the cover. The funny thing is that several of the portrayals of male sexuality in America are not positive at all, yet they pale in comparison to the lack of female sex shown, or something. It's one of those posts that are so vague and unfocused it's easy to think it supports whatever point you're trying to make.as long as it's about the patriarchy or something.

When the topic of misogyny comes up, and men change the subject, it trivializes misogyny.

When the topic of misogyny comes up, and men change the subject, it conveys the message that whatever men want to talk about is more important than misogyny.

When the topic of misogyny comes up, and men change the subject to something that’s about them, it conveys the message that men are the ones who really matter, and that any harm done to men is always more important than misogyny.

And when the topic of misogyny comes up, and men change the subject, it comes across as excusing misogyny. It doesn’t matter how many times you say, “Yes, of course, misogyny is terrible.” When you follow that with a “Yes, but…”, it comes across as an excuse. In many cases, it is an excuse. And it contributes to a culture that makes excuses for misogyny.

So what does it mean when the topic of women making false rape accusations against men comes up, and people make excuses for them and ignore the effect on the accused men, or ignore the matter entirely? What does it mean when a feminist woman walks into a discussion of the presumption of guilt when a man is accused of raping a women will the full intent of trying to change the subject? Or is derailing only bad when it moves onto things that you don't want to talk about? Why do discussions of men apparently have an obligation to listen to women's opinions on the matter, but not vice versa? How can someone be accused of making it "about the menz" in a discussion of something that is, in fact, specifically about the menz? In general, feminism gives the vibe that talking about women is more important than talking about men, always. Men are only discussed in the context of how they affect women, with little discussion of how women affect men. If it can be proven that men are systematically disadvantaged, it's blamed on "the patriarchy", despite the fact that the patriarchy is defined as a systemic advantages for men.

And the entire tumblr is that way. What type of loser fills up their blog with posts about social justice and the people who disagree with them?

Oh, wait.