How to Make It on the Misogynist Dominated Tedium [Medium]
It’s not satire when you mean it, stupid
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Sexism isn’t sexy or satirical
I want to talk about when everyday sexism gets passed off as satire on the internet. But I don’t want to get chewed out about it because life’s too short.
The names have been changed to protect the innocent. The names have also been changed to protect the guilty — most likely from themselves.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. About three months ago to be exact. Mr Butt Hurt wrote a nasty piece about women on an online publishing platform called Tedium.
The article’s title was: ‘How to make it on the female dominated Tedium.’ It was about as fun to read as it sounds.
Their basic argument was that Tedium had moved to a feminist slant and subjective essays.
This made Mr Butt Hurt’s butt hurt. He liked to write futurist articles and tech journalism; which no woman has ever done since the dawn of time.
He lamented losing publications that tackled subjects like programming, blockchain and technology.
He felt that women writing …
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