Okay, look. Irony means things. It may obscure meaning but it doesn't remove it. Take the old argument stereotype "well I guess I'm wrong/the bad guy, just like I always am!" Is that hyperbole? Absolutely. Does it have a message and content? Also yes. Its saying the other person is overly critical/accusatory/whiney towards the speaker. Despite being hyperbole, it still has a message and if you ever try using that line the other person will very much get the message.
There was an image meme on one of the SW subreddits that perfectly encapsulates why I'm complaining here, but I couldn't find it and was hesitating to use it because it went further than Reelya did. It was a picture of Rose kissing Finn with the caption "RAPE". The top comment under it was basically "I know its annoying that some people have implied we don't like the TLJ because we're sexist, but rape is a serious issue and that's not a good take on it."
And like, let's break down why that's a bad take. What's the joke? The joke is that its calling something rape when it clearly isn't. So, who's the butt of the joke? If we want to pretend the internet is in a vacuum, the butt of the joke is people who make accusations of rape or sexual assault. Cause the implication is that people call rape at the drop of a hat. Regardless of that its also insulting, for the same reason that edgelord "let's make fun of the holocaust" humor is obnoxious; it treats lightly what should not be treated lightly.
But the internet doesn't exist in a vacuum, so. Its a SJW meme. We all know it is. So the implication is that feminists, and thus specifically women, call rape or sexual assault at the drop of a hat.
Okay, now back to Reelya. Reelya's post talks about a female raping a male. It then immediately criticizes SJWs. I made my first post pretending the internet was a vacuum, so I'll drop the pretense here. If you use female on male rape to give yourself identity politics cred to call out feminists, you're walking like an MRA. If you hide behind humor and ambiguous irony, you're talking like an MRA. So if you walk the walk, and you talk the talk, well... I dunno, I'm not going to tell Reelya what he is. I was just responding to his post and trying to politely point out that his wording could be taken badly. And I mean if Reelya were hypothetically an MRA, that's not against the forum rules or whatever. I suspect however that Reelya does not think of himself as an MRA and would be annoyed if I lumped him in with one.
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