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[–] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

a moid is an asshole misogynistic male. The term stems from "femoid" which is a misogynistic term referring to women in general, usually said by moids who are also involuntarily celibate (incels).

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I prefer to not call those people moids. The whole term is toxic and does more to reinforce gender roles than oppose it. It's not worth using at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    I take no issue with calling toxic people toxic pejoratives. I'll use whatever term I think will offend the target the most, because fuckem.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    My experience has been that language signifies specific attitudes, attracting people with those attitudes. The type of people that "moid" attracts are more likely to view men as not just cultural problematic or practically dangerous, but as people unworthy of equal respect. The thing about people who dehumanize a large social group like that is that they are usually willing to dehumanize people for other reasons, including people they simply dislike. Those sort are rarely fun to hang out with.

    The people who use that term also tend to have more regular exposure to people with other awful attitudes. People who are casually transphobic, racist, and "edgy" in a way that goes beyond jokes. In short, 4chan/Twitter regulars who would rather expose themselves to hateful brainrot than hang out in "coddling safe spaces" that aren't astroterfed by Nazis.

    Basically, toxic memes attract toxic people, and unlike pepe, there is no good buried under that term worth reclaiming. There are plenty of insults for shitty men that aren't just genderswapped misogyny.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    I thank you for this knowledge.

    I am disgusted to know it.

    I apologize on behalf of my gender.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Don't apologize for things outside your control. As a species, we are still trying to outgrow the tribalism, aggression, and desire for dominance that helped our ancestors survive. Stand firm against the sophists, they exploit those old instincts rather than encourage us to rise above them.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    to expand on this, I used the term moid in my original comment because I could see how my entire argument could be oversimplified to "not all men are assholes", which is something moids say all the time when women complain about men.

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