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Sirena Bergman
May 13, 2019
Novellist AR Moxon – known to his 100,000 Twitter followers as @JuliusGoat – has posted a Twitter thread explaining exactly what would happen if gender roles were reversed.
Moxon was pointing out some of the many ways in which women have been oppressed by a patriarchal society for hundreds of years, but doing so by imagining what would happen if men were subjected to the same treatment.
He began by talking about the fact that there has never been a female president of the US, went on to address the gender disparities in supreme court nominees, and touched on the historic ban on women from voting, accessing universities and owning property.
Try to imagine men’s reactions, if it was known for a fact the next 45 presidents would be women, and after those 2… https://t.co/8M7RF5f1GD— A.R. Moxon (@A.R. Moxon) 1556073077
Try to imagine men’s reactions, were it known that of the next 113 SCOTUS justices, only 4 would be men, and none o… https://t.co/9YqNAKynp7— A.R. Moxon (@A.R. Moxon) 1556073621
Try to imagine men’s reactions if we weren’t allowed to vote from now until 2170. And if even in 2270 women were p… https://t.co/P9HX6M0Xd8— A.R. Moxon (@A.R. Moxon) 1556073876
What if it were known men wouldn’t be allowed into colleges for the next 100 yrs b/c women claimed it would make us… https://t.co/QwJquazMDR— A.R. Moxon (@A.R. Moxon) 1556074450
What if we men knew there wouldn’t be a male candidate for the presidency for 240 years, and even then he’d lose to… https://t.co/cP1cXRKp9K— A.R. Moxon (@A.R. Moxon) 1556075162
What if men needed a wife to own property for the next century or so. Or to open a bank account? And divorce is i… https://t.co/SVZoISi6jE— A.R. Moxon (@A.R. Moxon) 1556076131
I know, these are crazy hypotheticals. Insane. It would never happen. It would be insane to treat a gender that wa… https://t.co/WwqRbUcuq7— A.R. Moxon (@A.R. Moxon) 1556076336
He also added a tweet pointing out that the same point can be made for people of colour, LGBT+ people, disabled people and other minorities.
A key point. You can play this exercise for many different types of people People of color. Women of color. Gay peo… https://t.co/eKnKmU4p2y— A.R. Moxon (@A.R. Moxon) 1556107834
In total, his thread has been retweeted more than 2,000 times. Amid the praise, some women made the point that it's not really about "patience" at all.
@JuliusGoat My patience is gone.— Carol Swanson (@Carol Swanson) 1556073156
@JuliusGoat @ElsemiekMarijke This thread just made me sad. No only are we patient, we sometimes seem to forget the… https://t.co/GI3HuBHTcI— Anna-Eva (@Anna-Eva) 1556169693
@ItsKey_70sbaby @swanson_carol @JuliusGoat What is worse is when a man, with the best intentions, tells me in order… https://t.co/HxyTSu1v5R— imaan joshi 💉💉 💉 (@imaan joshi 💉💉 💉) 1556152482
@swanson_carol @JuliusGoat Just imagine how WOC or POC feel the patience has long since evaporated— RespectisEarnednotGIVEN (@RespectisEarnednotGIVEN) 1556081817
While others pointed out that he'd forgotten to include any stats on gender-specific violence and sexual assault.
@JuliusGoat What if, in their lifetime, 1 in 3 men could expect to be raped, assaulted or stalked by a woman, proba… https://t.co/71hISasoyq— Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice (@Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice) 1556081506
@JuliusGoat To not even mentioned if wives could abuse & sexually assault their husbands w/ legal impunity for the… https://t.co/2PfbCqhxr6— sierra kate deciduous (@sierra kate deciduous) 1556143456
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