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Punching Down by kevinbolk

This is a succinct summation of an technique called DARVO (Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender), which basically involves people doing bad things attempting to flip things around so that they’re the victim.

For example, when people talk about men’s problems with addressing men’s issues, especially when it comes to feminism, some feminists will go “that’s a good point, we could do a better job, lets talk about it”.

Unfortunately, many more will accuse the critic of being a mansplaining misogynist trying to derail feminism and make it all about the menz, or suchlike. And some will say that feminism is already helping men, but most people don’t know about it because of the media/lack of research/anyone but feminists themselves.

Strangely, these people almost never bother to provide actual examples of major feminist efforts to help men.