I Am a Feminist

The problem with using this cartoon is it essentially asserts that "bigotry and prejudiced behavior are justifiable as long as the bigotry or prejudices were formed from meeting a member of the group which the bigot is prejudiced against - because all sea lions (or black people, or Jewish people, or Chinese people) are exactly the same, and are effectively indistinguishable from each other."

The behavior you're saying is so annoying using the term sealioning is a function of Russel's Teapot - extraordinary claims which are not scientically falsifiable require extraordinary proofs - the burden of proof for supporting an extraordinary claim being on the person asserting the extraordinary claim.

The "relentless" nature of the questioning would be an example of someone attempting to find some substance in the claim in face of dogmatic responses which feature unexplained in-group jargon, unexplained underlying dogma and potentially left out information that the questionee her or himself may not even know. And in fact, the ignorance of the questioner is generally easily explained - particular strains of post-modern feminism, which might only be believed and accepted by a few tens of thousands of people and are neither commonly known nor easily researched despite your efforts to point out internet links which generally merely reassert your initial claims and do not explain in any detail the idea being discussed, give a glossary of the jargon being used or explain any of the underlying dogma - so if you're arguing a novel form of "sex positive, intersectional, Trans-inclusionary, 3rd Wave Feminism" it is highly possible that no one outside the in-group of believers could be expected to have educated her or himself on your beliefs since your beliefs are rare enough and recent enough in development, that very few people hold them, are aware of them or understand them. Things that you believe have routinely been "asked and answered" might never have been discussed with anyone outside the in-group of people who share your beliefs.

It is comforting to assume that simply asserting a viewpoint is enough and that it is the rest of the world's problem to educate itself about that viewpoint, but if you expound rare or novel views or you make extreme claims, it is to you to prove them.

[image deleted]WHAT ? !!

:D Great comic.

Yep, they never put the same burden of proof on themselves that they expect from everyone else.

TL;DR
Feminists are sea lions

You're welcome.

I can't stop laughing at that comic, but goddamn if this isn't true.

Jesus, feminists don't even try to downplay their stereotypes. Have a question? Got an objection? Countervailing evidence? A different worldview? Don't worry, feminists have some cheap, demeaning nickname for you too!

Dogfish / bowfin[image deleted] oh and mud puppies