• Knusper@feddit.de
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    I agree that it would look quite different with the genders reversed. However, gender equality is not like mathematical equality, where every situation needs to be reversible.

    Women have traditionally been less sex-positive and less dominant, which many consider indicators of a lack of true gender equality, so a progressive community will celebrate a reversal of that.

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      1 year ago

      TIL feminism is not a progressive movement, and they only like one sided patriarchal benefits when convenient.

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      Bad behavior is still bad behavior, regardless of who’s doing it. The oppressed engaging in the same behavior as their former oppressors is not equality, it’s just more oppression.

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      But situations regarding the handling of power dynamics and standards of consent/coercion absolutely should be reversible.

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        Well, consent is non-negotiable. I understood the comic as depicting a consenting couple.

        As for power dynamics, I’m certainly not on board with her having communicated, she had an emergency. That is just disrespectful. But that one looks bad on both genders.
        The existence of power dynamics in a relationship in general always looks bad, for both sides, in my opinion.