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One major feature of using the internet is being constantly exposed to the opinions of thousings, if not millions of people all the time. Sometimes this is illuminating, educational and humanizing. Other times, you might end up feeling like your eyes need a soap-bath

The “Men and Females” internet group is dedicated to sharing hilarious screenshots of people who have strong opinions about women while simultaneously not quite knowing that this word exists. Bored Panda got in touch with the group's creator to learn more. So get comfortable as you read through some folks' deceptions, upvote your favorite ones and share your thoughts in the comments section below. 

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Lauren Caswell
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1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Woo! This isn't mansplaining in my opinion anyway, it's ironic mansplaining to make a point as an ally

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Bored Panda got in touch with the netizen who created the “Men and Females” group and they were kind enough to answer some of our questions. First and foremost, we wanted to hear the backstory of the page.

“I started this sub because I had been noticing for years that people would use men and females in the same sentence, and often it was coming from a sexist perspective. "Female" was used to belittle women the poster didn't respect, but because it was a normal word and not a slur no one could say anything about it. This sub started out as just a way for me to screenshot when I found examples while browsing the internet, I never thought the sub would grow to over 73k members.”

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Naturally, we wanted to hear their thoughts on why the group got so large. “I think the sub became so popular because it's not just me who noticed this covert sexism happening all over the Internet and in real life. I'd tag the sub every time I saw a comment or post that was relevant and usually get replies saying "Yes! I thought I was the only one who thought this was weirdly sexist, I didn't know there was a sub for it!"” they shared with Bored Panda. 

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The Language Of Dehumanization (Not Sure If This Belongs Here)

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Zedrapazia
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not an incel thing, but manipulation instead. However, it's the Israel Times, who else should they support? Dirty tactics

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Deborah B
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very clear illustration of how "female" is used to dehumanise/devalue women, though this is racial/ethnic/political bias as well as misogyny. Not also the similar contrast of "security prisoners" for Palestinians and "held by Hamas" for Israelis.

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well the women being released by Israel all had charges against them, many of them with convictions related to terrorist activities, the Israeli legal word for someone arrested for terrorism is "Security Prisoners", they use the same term for Jewish radicals as well

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Rachel Pelz
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Outch. Different intent than the other ones but very painful indeed.

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Purple_bio
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4 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

bro, wtf is happening to the Jewish people, this is fricked, why are women and children being held why at all are civillians getting dragged into this-

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Norah Reilly
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is racist AND sexist! In the words of Pogo, " We have met the enemy and he is us", perfectly describes the Israel government's policies and aggressions. Remember the lead-up to the Holocaust, folks? How is any of this different except in nomenclature?

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4 weeks ago (edited)

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How many German hostages did the Jews take in total in the lead up to the Holocaust? How many Germans were killed and raped by Jews in a mass terror attack?

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Andrew Burke
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually to be pedantic, and add absolutely nothing to the real conversation, the above is actually grammatically correct. They are female prisoners, but they are women. You kind of need to use female as an adjective there, otherwise you have to remove the noun prisoners, and just refer to them as imprisoned women - which would be a better choice. (To be super pedantic, teenage should be written as teenaged).

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Guess Undheit
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

1200 Palestinians were being held hostage in August 2023 *BEFORE* Hamas attacked, but the media deliberately avoided mentioning them. Many of them were children, subjected to torture and sexual abuse at the hands of israeli terrorists. [ https://apnews.com/article/israel-detention-jails-palestinians-west-bank-793a3b2a1ce8439d08756da8c63e5435 ]

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Ael
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2 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My home country once dehumanised and killed millions of them, and all they took from that is "Wow, cool, let's do that, too". :(

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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it's like when they described an exchange of "hostages" for "prisoners" a lot of those "prisoners" were children who had had no legal processes, and were kidnapped for things like throwing stones at people who were shooting at them.

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H. Brown
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, yeah...totally dehumanizing Palestinian women...which does nothing to bolster support for Israel, btw.

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Timbob
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t understand. Isn’t this just stating facts ?

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SleepyBunny
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

by using "female" they're dehumanizing the poor women, trying to dehumanize Palestine. I would go further but I dont want to get political.

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Klara Kent
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Who was in charge of the headline? You should lose your job mate.

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Jeremy Bell
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Says a great deal about the Israeli mindset when talking about Palestinians. Zionist Jews are evil.

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Anne
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4 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

do they mean only teenage female Palestinians(so young women between 10-18?) in exchange for women and children?

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CK
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4 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do think it's relevant that they're talking about prisoners vs. hostages here. Prisoners including those who have committed acts of violence.

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4 weeks ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are talking about human beings, first and foremost. The wording "teenage and female Palestinian" sounds far less humanizing than "Israeli women and children". This was done deliberately. Do you think an Israeli news source is going to grant status of humanity to the people that they're killing en masse?

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Donkey boi
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Teenage AND female? At what age does does a woman become female exactly?

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4 weeks ago

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Is anyone gonna talk about the fact that Israel has to release 150 criminals in exchange for 50 innocents?

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Tamra
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4 weeks ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is anyone gonna talk about how Israel is committing actual, in-real-time genocide, while someone is bitching about them magnanimously releasing 150 people who were likely just guilty of being Palestinian?

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Perhaps they should have just written 150 violent criminals will be released in exchange for 50 innocent Israeli people who were subjected to rape and kidnapping, some as young as nine months?

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are you implying that 150 teenage Palestine women are violent criminals? Chances are they were kidnapped and raped by their captors

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This is phrased poorly. That said, Palestinians calling Israelis "pigs and monkeys" is much better and not dehumanising at all. Now go ahead and downvote this comment because it doesn't align with your narrative of the conflict which you've learnt on TikTok

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hi! i don't have TikTok, so I guess I'm allowed to talk. Two wrong don't make a right. That being said, while this is a complex problem that is rooted in decades of history, it's not shocking that people being oppressed are name calling their oppressors. Both sides have said and done awful things.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine this: you were just operated for kidney stones because one lodged itself in your urethra, and the doctor ask you if you want to be stretched a little more "as long as we are already here..."

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You Can Bet Your A*s That If A Man Were In The Video Instead, Everyone In Those Comments Would Be Talking About What A Clean And Professional Job He Was Doing Smdh

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like the stilts. Makes me think of Ellen Ripley in that scene from Alien 2. I doubt that blue-barred commenter could watch that without feeling woefully inadequate.

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Given their extensive experience, we wanted the page’s admin to delve a bit deeper into why this phenomenon appeared in the first place. “I think in certain instances people use "female" in an attempt to sound educated or to make their sexist comments sound more formal or logical and therefore have more merit. There are many posts to the sub where men in particular will flat out say that they are using "female" to degrade a woman they don't find desirable in some way, that "they don't deserve to be called a woman."”

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It’s Perfectly Fine For Men To Like 15 Year Old Females

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair I see some truth in this comment. Another woman getting her tits out does not empower me in the slightest. Getting my own out? Different story. But I don’t because I’d rather use my brain than my tits to show my strength as a woman. Or as a human. Brains seem to be sadly lacking in this fool though.

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“The sexist use of the innocent word has been going on long before women started noticing and speaking up about it. Anti-feminists and incels are just upset that women are calling it out. They don't get what the big deal is because there are no male-specific insults like there are for women for them to compare to,” they shared.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What about gay men who don't have a partner? Is OP volunteering to help those out?

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“A lot of men who oppose the sub will brag about how nothing offends them. It's like a white person saying they're not offended by being called a cracker and making fun of black people for being offended at being called the n word, and then they'll derail by saying "how can you compare "female" to the n word?"” 

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“It's easy to think something is silly when you've never been oppressed and don't bother to care about or notice the nuances of the culture you're living in. One post on the sub compared using "female" to saying "the blacks" instead of "black people". It's a dog whistle.” For those who are unaware, a dog whistle is a seemingly innocuous phrase that bigots use to communicate with each other. 

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“Many users will also defend the use of "men and females" as a way to be transphobic. They're further showing their misogyny by saying "woman can mean anything nowadays, we have to say female if we mean biological women" but somehow the same logic never applies to men or males.”

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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“I just want to add, using "female" when you mean "woman" is not the end of the world, it's just one of the many annoyances of living in a sexist society. I think anti-feminists, misogynists, incels, etc. just get angry to see how women come together to fight against sexism, whether it be subtle sexist remarks or large-scale oppression.”

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We also shouldn't ride trains or cars because the speed might make our uterus fall out. Right?

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't you wish this was not a real post from someone? I am more depressed each entry I read, and should have stopped up at the top.

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