• Mango@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Did the first person just translate “like a man” as “superior to you”? They done failed their own little word game.

    • unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 days ago

      Only if you’re completely unwilling to unpack what things like “be a man” and “like a man” generally mean in the anglosphere, and how phrases like that have often been employed to reinforce the worst and most destructive aspects of masculinity.