can anybody explain why it makes me so uncomfortable to see role-reversal videos where men are “treated like women” in order to show how shitty sexual violence/harassment is?
Because it asks women to, once again, empathize with men; while never asking men to empathize with women, even while trying to make a statement about women’s issues. It allows MEN to be the central sympathetic figures and victims, and casts women as the villains in a story that purports to be about women’s issues.
It’s the same problem I have with videos that are like “what if homophobia happened to STRAIGHT PEOPLE?!!?!?!”
Hey, what if oppressors, like, I dunno, were able to empathize with the oppressed instead of co-opting our stories and our struggles? Like, are we SO DAMN DEHUMANIZED that our stories can’t even be about us to garner any kind of sympathy?

















