JD showed evidence that men & women have different interests on average. Irrational ideologues claimed this meant women were biologically inferior. (WTF?!) A claim that 'women are inferior' is not inherently irrational. It is either true or untrue depending on criteria.
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If we are grading on ability to do pull-ups or urinate up a wall, women are going to come out badly on these skills. However, we do not judge superiority or inferiority in this way & to suggest we should would be irrational. Fortunately, nobody at all does that.
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I've suspected for a long time that these people DO look at this way. That everything male/masculine is superior to the female/feminine. Earning more money is superior to having a good relationship with your children. Tech is a more important field than nursing, or whatever. Etc.
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It's some sort of circular reasoning. Since men have been oppressors, if men have or do something then it must be good. Thus if women were the ones tending the household, this must be of lower value. I dunno, it's really difficult to dress it in rational terms, because it's not.
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Replying to @gsmp_martin @HPluckrose
Just thinking out loud here but.. Surely different ideologies exist, but sometimes it just seems it comes down to language. So when I say 'different', they hear 'unequal', or 'superior/inferior', because to them those are synonyms.
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Replying to @gsmp_martin @HPluckrose
OR that IS how they see things. That if people are different, then based on some criteria or other, one MUST be superior. This is also why they so strongly object to this thinking, because if they were to agree, they themselves would have to start to believe that
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Replying to @gsmp_martin @HPluckrose
men are superior to women. Or if they were to acknowledge average IQ difference between populations they would have no choice but to become nazis...?
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And maybe that very basal way of looking at things, of understanding the world, is what lies at the bottom of this ideological divide?
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Replying to @gsmp_martin @HPluckrose
Helen, why do you think this breakdown in communication is taking place? I read your piece of FoS and when reading your definition that's 100% what I hear when you just say "Freedom of Speech".
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Replying to @gsmp_martin @HPluckrose
While someone else is equally convinced that what you're really saying is "I support hurling racial slurs around willy-nilly". Why is this? I'm quite baffled.
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You have a universal liberal outlook and the postmodern-inspired way of seeing the world is alien to you.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Right. But does this mean that we will never bridge this divide? What is the solution?
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