🧩 BND Motif Index · M592
Not all men
A group's defenders insist most members are innocent, while critics argue that the group as a whole bears responsibility for its worst members.
🗣️ Arguments🗂️ Part and whole🗂️ Sex and gender🗂️ Abuse and silence
- 2claims filed under it
- 1right show it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 Good old boys Not all men answers Good old boys
⏱️ told here 21 days after its answer (2026-09-12 → 2026-10-03)
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Blame the victim 🧩 Patriarchy 🧩 Teach your sons
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-15 “Men are generally effective at holding each other accountable for creepy behavior within social groups.”
🎙️ Timcast IRL (podcast) - 2026-10-07 “Male violence against women is a systemic issue that is learned, normalized, and perpetuated by men who fail to hold each other accountable, keeping women in a position of subordination and silence.” 🧶 people online
M592 · first seen 2026-10-07 · last 2026-10-15 · what this is · how the index works