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View submission: How Men Become Aziz Ansari
This sub tends to be ever so slightly better than the rest of reddit on that.
Comment by Marionberry_007 at 20/02/2025 at 23:32 UTC
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Not as horrible as other parts of reddit but a lot of people here fell for the propaganda, too. You can probably still find the posts from back then. The MRA backlash to #MeToo leaked into pretty much every left-leaning subreddit, and there was this undercurrent of *needing* JD to be a male victim and AH an abuser to validate male victims in general.
If anything that's the root of frustration behind my comment, very few people on the left have bothered to examine that whole phenomenon of abandoning a DV victim in order to placate this...resentment? The narrative that women could never be seen as abusers or men as victims was very, very strong. If nothing else this case showed that to be entirely untrue, people were more than willing, eager even, to see AH as an abuser and JD as a victim despite their gender. And past behavior. And a ton of evidence to the contrary lol