When someone writes a story where all the sympathetic and interesting characters are male, it is considered offensive to women.
I’m sure you don’t actually have any confusion here, but I feel compelled to point out that you kind of did that thing where you only expect a member of Minority X to be offended by *ism against Minority X, where in fact everyone should join in sharing the offense caused by it, because that’s just part of being a decent person.
(I probably wouldn’t have mentioned this but for the fact that we’re having a meta-discussion about how offense works!)
Yvain didn’t write “considered offensive by women”. He wrote “to”, which only very weakly implies the idea you criticize and can be charitably read as saying no such thing.
I see, thanks. I was thinking of “to” as just being the other direction of “by”, but you can interpret it as more like “towards” and then it’s all good.
Oh, I bet it’s because the previous sentence was “When someone draws Mohammed, it is considered offensive to Muslims.”, and that one seemed like a straightforward “no-one except Muslims is being offended by this” mapping, which was then extended to cover sexism.
Yvain didn’t write “considered offensive by women”. He wrote “to”, which only very weakly implies the idea you criticize and can be charitably read as saying no such thing.
I’m sure you don’t actually have any confusion here, but I feel compelled to point out that you kind of did that thing where you only expect a member of Minority X to be offended by *ism against Minority X, where in fact everyone should join in sharing the offense caused by it, because that’s just part of being a decent person.
(I probably wouldn’t have mentioned this but for the fact that we’re having a meta-discussion about how offense works!)
Yvain didn’t write “considered offensive by women”. He wrote “to”, which only very weakly implies the idea you criticize and can be charitably read as saying no such thing.
I see, thanks. I was thinking of “to” as just being the other direction of “by”, but you can interpret it as more like “towards” and then it’s all good.
Oh, I bet it’s because the previous sentence was “When someone draws Mohammed, it is considered offensive to Muslims.”, and that one seemed like a straightforward “no-one except Muslims is being offended by this” mapping, which was then extended to cover sexism.
Yvain didn’t write “considered offensive by women”. He wrote “to”, which only very weakly implies the idea you criticize and can be charitably read as saying no such thing.