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That's not how "we" is used.
>it [we] doesn’t mean I’m one of the people doing this
It heavily implies it. Are you ESL?
The alternative would be to say “they” and that in turn would imply I’m a woman. I am ESL and yet seems like I have better mastery over your language than you do. Maybe it only “heavily implies” it to you because you haven’t actually read much beyond reddit posts, but literature uses it all the time (e.g. see any political speech where a person is criticizing their own country, they use ‘we’, like bernie sanders complaining how ‘we’ have the highest drug prices in the world)
Study your own language a bit more ;) Q.E.D.
The correct alternative would be to use the noun 'men' as a subject.
It's not rocket science ;)
Just saw you’re a proudly self-proclaimed sexist. Are you baiting me into (and losing) this stupid semantics debate because you couldn’t address my original point but the juvenile rage inside you caused you to need to find something to reply to? And arguing over which pronoun I should use is what you landed on?
Your "original point" was nebulous enough that half a dozen people commented on it. You would have to clarify your semantics in this case before we could debate anything.
And yet every person commenting on it had the same issue: thinking I’m talking about them specifically. It’s not a misunderstanding, it’s emotional immaturity that makes you think this in this context. Again, when people criticize their own countrymen (or even fandoms for that matter) for their behavior, they use “we” and nobody feels the need to butt in with “but I don’t do that!”
In your other post, you've claimed men share a responsibility. That would include me, and presumably the other people questioning why this would be the case. There doesn't seem to be a clear reason why we would be responsible.
It would be like if I said you and I are now collectively responsible for the cost of the Taco Bell I just ordered, and justified this by saying: "Well, we're both men!". You might question why you're included in this particular instance; posit that, actually, your gender doesn't demonstrate why you would be responsible for this; argue that, as you didn't order the Taco Bell, it's not really your responsibility at all.
So why am I lumped into yours?
I'd also make a point of noting that your smugness in all of this is bizarre. You seem to think you're making an argument on par with the Cartesian first principle, but in reality, you're a flailing retard who can barely string a sentence together, let alone a coherent argument. Whatever you reply with, I bet money that if I formalized it, it would not demonstrate a collective responsibility.
“The Cartesian First Principle” is “I think therefore I am”, which is really one of the most if not the most basic philosophy 101 arguments. Was that you trying to sound smart?
This is like saying "Newton's first law is basic physics". That doesn't make the Principia less profound, or Newton dumb. You are not Newton. You are not Descartes. You are not putting forward a profound argument. You are not even able to put forward an argument at all, it seems.
Edit to say you should have left your original reply in. It was better to play this all off as a low effort troll, IMO.