Tom Ritchford
1 min readOct 14, 2020

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Man here. Feel free to make fun of me and all other men all you like: turnabout really is fair play. Guys have dealt this shit out for centuries to women, blacks, queers, cripples - you name it, if they weren't an able-bodied white male, they were fair game for brutality.

"What's the matter, can't you take a joke?" has been the aftermath of male verbal brutality since time immemorial. It would be great to see it turned onto men.

I remember by the way an excellent comic from Posy Simmonds. Men at a construction site have been catcalling girls, so one of our heroes gets together her drawing class and they go out and draw the construction workers at work - except naked (and it is subtly implied, underendowed). And of course the workers are outraged.

The same people who decided that "triggering" someone was a fun thing to do, and coined the term "snowflake" have no basis to complain.

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