Because men have been and are currently considered human and women Other, the reinforcing of this trope by a man carries a lot more force and hurt than if a woman were to speak about men as if they were strange, unsympathetic Others. Robin is a person with privilege denying the humanity of disprivileged people. He’s following a pattern that’s been used to justify the rape and abuse of women for thousands of years.
So Robin isn’t a human to you, he’s a part of a pattern? What you’re saying doesn’t sound to me like Robin at all, and if you just stuck around and looked at him you’d see that.
Now you’re managing to offend me, not so much by your insensitivity to Robin, as by your deciding that seeing patterns instead of people is allowed for you. That you don’t even need to try to make an effort to see Robin as Robin. You justify this by saying that you’re part of a disprivileged class; but sorry, Angel, the healing road doesn’t only go one way. I haven’t raped anyone and neither to my knowledge has Robin; we are not anything other men have done, we are only our own deeds.
Because men have been and are currently considered human and women Other, the reinforcing of this trope by a man carries a lot more force and hurt than if a woman were to speak about men as if they were strange, unsympathetic Others. Robin is a person with privilege denying the humanity of disprivileged people. He’s following a pattern that’s been used to justify the rape and abuse of women for thousands of years.
So Robin isn’t a human to you, he’s a part of a pattern? What you’re saying doesn’t sound to me like Robin at all, and if you just stuck around and looked at him you’d see that.
Now you’re managing to offend me, not so much by your insensitivity to Robin, as by your deciding that seeing patterns instead of people is allowed for you. That you don’t even need to try to make an effort to see Robin as Robin. You justify this by saying that you’re part of a disprivileged class; but sorry, Angel, the healing road doesn’t only go one way. I haven’t raped anyone and neither to my knowledge has Robin; we are not anything other men have done, we are only our own deeds.