• bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
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    2 days ago

    If this is punching down, isn’t that gross, and if it’s punching up, isn’t that an admission the chuds won? I just don’t get the point of this adolescent needling in pop culture spaces.

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        2 days ago

        Categorically that’s punching up. While sexists may individually lack personal power, wealth or influence, collectively they operate from a place of cultural institutional power.