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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubtoFemcel Memes@lemmy.blahaj.zoneFragile
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    9 days ago

    However, in this meme, she says sometimes.

    Yeah this is vague. The sentence: “Sometimes men’s egos can be so fragile” can be read as meaning that all men’s egos are sometimes fragile, or it could mean that some men’s egos are always fragile. But the use of “sometimes” implies a variance with time (e.g. not with person) which makes the first interpretation a better fit.

    If the second meaning was intended, then the sentence should be restated to avoid the apparent sexism.

    You could also say that the meaning is that some men’s egos are sometimes fragile, but I don’t think that interpretation is valid because then the ending of comic doesn’t make sense.


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    9 days ago

    Pointing out anyone’s fragile ego isn’t a bad thing.

    Pointing out a person’s fragile ego based on an experience of such isn’t a bad thing, but generalizing this conclusion to an entire group of people (where the group is defined by a single characteristic such as race/sex/gender/religion/culture/etc) is a bad thing.

    To put it another way, one sample is bad statistics.

    A better version of this might say “Many of the men I meet seem to have fragile egos” or even “Most of the men I know [etc]”. This could be a valid statement supported by the individual’s experience, and avoids the sexism displayed in the comic.