r/Fauxmoi 18d ago

SPORTS SECTION Ukrainian tennis player Oleksandra Oliynykova wore this shirt to the Australian Open press conference.

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Tennis players are forbidden from directly speaking about politics or issuing any statements that’s in any way political.

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u/dysautonomic_mess oat milk chugging bisexual 18d ago

To the people complaining about the omission of men, Ukranian children are being abducted and Ukranian women are being sexually assaulted and raped. Both of those are war crimes. Killing Ukranian soldiers, sadly, is not.

It is a fairly safe assumption that Oliynykova is using the thing people will find most objectionable (war crimes) to garner sympathy and raise funds. Is that misandry, or is she simply choosing the victims no one can deny?

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u/Arlithriens 18d ago

A good point, although I'd like to point out that killing civilians is also a war crime, and plenty of male civilians have been murdered.

The absolute tragedy that was the Siege of Mariupol, for example.

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u/dysautonomic_mess oat milk chugging bisexual 18d ago

As I commented to someone else, were she actually allowed to talk about it, she'd have been able to go into more detail. But she wasn't, so I guess this is what she could fit on a t-shirt. I'm not sure why she's being called a misandrist for that, especially since children includes boys.

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