Serious question, tweeps. I'm open to the possibility that men thinking women intellectually inferior not uncommon. Why don't *I* see it?https://twitter.com/nevynxxx/status/912625196204478464 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It's harder to see when you're an obvious exception to a truth that is pretty internalized for some. But it's mostly about rationality.
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Replying to @MonaIbrahim
But I don't see men condescending to other women either & women keep tweeting me & saying no. Some say yes. Perhaps some environments.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Eh, could be lots of things. Could be where you are, or the field doesn't have the same level of competition and male dominance.
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Replying to @MonaIbrahim
Yeah. My profession is female-dominated but my work for a humanist org has more men & my political-arguing circle is more male.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Yeah but what is your area of expertise? Many men also see women as experts in emotion, so if that's what you're arguing about...
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Replying to @MonaIbrahim
Late medieval religious writing officially. I spend more time arguing for secularism, liberalism, gender equality, respect for science etc
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Replying to @HPluckrose
And the things you argue amount mostly involve human relationships and sociological development, which are "women stuff". And lit, obviously
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Replying to @MonaIbrahim @HPluckrose
Maybe I'm confusing context. I think I assumed your debates concerned the roles of those ideologies in the greater social context.
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Replying to @MonaIbrahim
Yes, but that's the whole 'New Atheist' thing which has now passed & spread out into criticising other irrational ideologies.
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And this has been widely misunderstood as a male thing tho I agree that it is largely ethical & involving verbal reasoning which are not.
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