Collective male guilt and DU

[unreadierLizard]

So, in my 2+ years on DU(mostly as a lurker, only a few months as a registered user), I've happened to notice a pattern:

It seems acceptable for certain elements of the board to call out all male users - no, in fact the entire male population of the world - if bad events happen. I didn't understand it at first, but now I think I can see what's going on. I call it "collective male guilt". It goes something like this:

"You are a man. Therefore, you must:"

-Be a rapist
-Know a rapist
-Be aggressive
-Be sexually exploitative all the time
-Be a member of the Patriarchy
-be privileged to be a man and enjoy said privilege
-oppose women on principle
-be a "nice guy" only to score with women

And any time a man says or does something, no matter how man of us think it stupid("legitimate rape&quot or sickening(murder, rape, etc), we are men, and the perpetrator is a man, so we must share in the guilt of that man based on our gender association.

I dunno, but trying to guilt the entire next generation of boys and men into feeling "bad" because our grandfathers/great-grandfathers may have been sexist due to society's attitudes at the times is kind of a bad idea.