[a sign reads FEMINIST CONFERENCE next to a closed door, a blue character shrugs and says…]
I don’t care

[next to the same door, the sign now says RESTRICTED FEMINIST CONFERENCE WOMEN ONLY, there are now four blue characters desperately banging on the door, one is reduced to tears on the floor, they are shouting]
DISCRIMINATION
SO UNFAIR!!!
LET US IINN!!
MISANDRY

https://thebad.website/comic/until_it_affects_me

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    I’ll admit that I only know BLM from first hand experience (not a lot) and the news, so I should not speak on the movement as a whole. But I wanted to use it to illustrate my point.

    if you believe being a man has some effect that means you can’t have something relevant to add to a conversation

    I would not say that this is the problem. More in the lines of whataboutism?
    You want to discuss something and other people (often men in the case of feminism, again, in my experience), tries to whataboutism their counterpart (for example a femenist) to make their counterparts arguments invalid in some way.


    Back to OP’s comic, here is a real world example: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46622772. Emma Knyckare (a Swedish comedian) organized a festival that was “male-free”.

    The Sweden’s Discrimination Ombudsman (DO) said that describing an event as “male-free” breached the country’s anti-discrimination laws.