The joking/not-joking term I've often used for these folks is "Macktivists". It's really frustrating, immensely frustrating, to watch them go through a community, serially abusing women, while other folks in the community, including women, defend them.
Somehow, the idea that words alone would make up the difference, even as these folks go through their third "girlfriend" whom they depend on for rent and food money, while choosing to not work themselves, has deeply infected a lot people.
My answer, at this point, to "process" is that people with privilege need to remove themselves from the community until they can consistently NOT hurt people in their process.
The idea that others have to pay for their enlightenment is a classic bit of bullshit, and one we've seen highlighted a lot recently with online racefail stuff ("Oh, well, I'm glad I said all this fucked up shit and pissed all you people off, I really learned something! Toodles!").
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Somehow, the idea that words alone would make up the difference, even as these folks go through their third "girlfriend" whom they depend on for rent and food money, while choosing to not work themselves, has deeply infected a lot people.
My answer, at this point, to "process" is that people with privilege need to remove themselves from the community until they can consistently NOT hurt people in their process.
The idea that others have to pay for their enlightenment is a classic bit of bullshit, and one we've seen highlighted a lot recently with online racefail stuff ("Oh, well, I'm glad I said all this fucked up shit and pissed all you people off, I really learned something! Toodles!").
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