Basically: There's an interesting measure here of what is socially acceptable to say if you add on "bad society pressure" to remove the blame directly from the group you're discussing. And to clarify, I think "bad society pressure" is often a legit reason and I'm not arguing we-
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shouldn't use it, I'm just noticing that there's pressure to add it as a caveat when discussing 'negative' things about a group. I'm also curious about when there *isn't* pressure to add it as a caveat. Sometimes "bad society pressure" is missing from discussions.
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This seems like a really good way to see who's in a culture's shithouse: Drop your "bad society pressure" from an observation about a group and see if anybody notices.
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Racist: "Black people do more crime" Not racist: "Black people do more crime because poverty causes crime, and black people have been historically disenfranchised which resulted in severe poverty."
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Racist: "Native americans get drunk and beat each other" "Not racist: "Yeah, because they were literally wiped out/kinda genocided, and restricted to tiny reservations which resulted in intense poverty, no shit they have high alcohol rates and low mental health support"
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Sexist: "Men oppress women" Not sexist: "Because society has reinforced that - men who don't show their strength sufficiently are mocked instead of given social support"
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Tbh, suicide would probably be the only occasion when I _wouldn't_ care how I looked On a serious note, the 'social pressure' type of narrative seems almost insulting because it's like -- has no one actually considered that women like to look a certain way just for themselves?

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I've considered it but find it extremely implausible. Like, if you just delete society from a human's brain you get something unrecognizeable, not a woman who likes wearing blue lipstick 'just for herself.' Everything we signal about ourselves is tied to 'being viewed.'
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There is a social science researcher whose name escapes me who expounded a law of social science that you can publish on any sex difference you like as long as you formulate it as women are better or more oppressed.
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"bad societal pressure" is just an affirmation of feminism's core axioms, which defines anything outside of itself as sexist. It's a v simple algo. The emphasis on societal pressure is indication of a totaling on social construction.
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