MANGINA / I CONSIDER THAT A COMPLIMENT
A Privilege Denying Dude post.
"I've never seen any sexism at this company," says Tom, who has sat through eleven meetings this week where Priya's idea only became a good idea once he repeated it. Your cousin got his first flat "completely on my own". His dad paid the deposit, the first six months and the solicitor, and drove the van. "On my own" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. So was his dad. A man on the train sits with his knees at a confident 140 degrees and sighs at a woman for putting her bag on the seat. Space, he explains with his knees, is a meritocracy. Someone in the group chat shares a story about a wheelchair user who couldn't get on the bus. Kevin replies that he takes the stairs at the station every day and it's fine. Kevin has solved accessibility. Kevin is muted. **Why it caught on:** a stock photo of a young man in glasses with his arms crossed became a Tumblr blog in 2010 that put real dismissive arguments in his mouth, so they sounded as silly as they are. Everyone has met him, usually in the comments.