Ah, OK. I think one problem with that is that people can't choose their sex/gender. It's not a body of ideas.
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Replying to @Friedmanzone @HPluckrose
They can choose whether or not it degenerates into toxicity. I hv no problem with men as such. Or w Muslims.
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Replying to @IonaItalia @HPluckrose
But I'm not sure that sort of toxicity is a function of masculinity, in the way that's true in the Islam case?
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Replying to @Friedmanzone @HPluckrose
I wd argue that it is. Hence the need 4 a descriptive term.
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Replying to @IonaItalia @Friedmanzone
Masculinity is to do with violence and sexual abuse? Its not just something more associated with men?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Friedmanzone
No, there's v gd evidence 2 suggest men far more prone to violence (again, talking abt a significant *minority*)
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Replying to @IonaItalia @HPluckrose
Trouble is, there's also good evidence, many places, that young black males, say, are esp. violent. But I'm ...
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... guessing you wdnt want to associate such violence with their race? (To be clear: neither would I!)
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Replying to @Friedmanzone @HPluckrose
I wldnt. But every piece of evidence we hv thro all of history suggests a diff in the rate at which men 1/2
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Replying to @IonaItalia @HPluckrose
Right. But the objection I have is associating particular failing with an aspect of a person that they never chose.
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Yes, this. Can say 'Men more prone to this' & women more prone to this' w/out saying 'This is essence of men/women
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Friedmanzone
I never interpreted the phrase as meaning that, but sure that way of phrasing might b clearer.
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