This is why I'm sometimes hesitant to befriend men.
... Okay, look. Not everybody is into politics in the same way, and not everybody uses the same terminology as one another when discussing politics, and I don't have a problem with that as long as nobody is stepping on anybody else's neck in the process.
But.
If you think it's okay to use the term Social Justice Warrior to mock, insult, belittle, dismiss or otherwise denigrate somebody who cares about politics in a particular way, then we just can't be friends. If you use the term Social Justice Warrior to mean "a young female person who talks angrily about identity politics on the internet and who doesn't soften her tone when speaking to a cishet white dude" and you are of the opinion that being a Social Justice Warrior is a bad thing, then we cannot be friends.
Let's be real. Nobody uses the term any other way than that. So, if you use the term Social Justice Warrior in any context other than talking about how people who use the term Social Justice Warrior are rude and insulting and you hate their tone policing ways, then we cannot be friends.
Further, if you are a cishet dude who complains about Social Justice Warriors because you do not understand that not all conversations are about you, and not all conversations are intended for you to participate in, and not all spaces are yours to occupy, and you feel that this is unjust and you want to complain about it and you are not willing to listen to marginalised people when they explain to you why they need to have their own conversations in their own spaces sometimes so could you please butt out, then we cannot be friends.
If these things apply to you and you have realised that we cannot be friends, please leave a comment on your way out so that the defriending can be mutual. Thanks.
But.
If you think it's okay to use the term Social Justice Warrior to mock, insult, belittle, dismiss or otherwise denigrate somebody who cares about politics in a particular way, then we just can't be friends. If you use the term Social Justice Warrior to mean "a young female person who talks angrily about identity politics on the internet and who doesn't soften her tone when speaking to a cishet white dude" and you are of the opinion that being a Social Justice Warrior is a bad thing, then we cannot be friends.
Let's be real. Nobody uses the term any other way than that. So, if you use the term Social Justice Warrior in any context other than talking about how people who use the term Social Justice Warrior are rude and insulting and you hate their tone policing ways, then we cannot be friends.
Further, if you are a cishet dude who complains about Social Justice Warriors because you do not understand that not all conversations are about you, and not all conversations are intended for you to participate in, and not all spaces are yours to occupy, and you feel that this is unjust and you want to complain about it and you are not willing to listen to marginalised people when they explain to you why they need to have their own conversations in their own spaces sometimes so could you please butt out, then we cannot be friends.
If these things apply to you and you have realised that we cannot be friends, please leave a comment on your way out so that the defriending can be mutual. Thanks.