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Inkfreak

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2. Some argue against "1st world problems"

Reply to Bonobo (Original post)

Sun Apr 6, 2014, 08:52 AM

Apr 2014

while at the same time using the very same framework of the "1st world critique" to dismiss male issues.

"You're a male. Stop complaining. You run the world."

Attempts to point these things out are harshly meet with posts declaring that you're minimizing the "real problem". It's all very nasty & divisive stuff. As if we're all not on the same team.

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Being deaf to the "first world problem" critique [View all] Bonobo Apr 2014 OP

Yes. lumberjack_jeff Apr 2014 #1

Some argue against "1st world problems" Inkfreak Apr 2014 #2

Precisely. nt Bonobo Apr 2014 #3