welp, valid point, but it might depend a lot on what we permit to be called a "typical sex offender"
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Replying to @chaosprime @okayultra
like, the phrase conjures a specific image of ravening perversion i have to suspect is mostly about a cultural need for demons
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but probably the statistically typical sex offender is a lot more like, just to pick a random example, Donald Trump
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obvs there's a lot going on there beyond "misunderstanding", but i see no indication that Trump *wants* to be a rapist
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his fantasy is pretty clearly one where everybody consents to his advances because of his irresistible star power
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and he has no concept of women's inner lives and would consider the idea he should consider them beyond ridiculous
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honestly think fiction is the best way to instill understanding of others' inner lives. has Science looked into this?
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apparently yes! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/novel-finding-reading-literary-fiction-improves-empathy/ …
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i'm surprised "literary" fiction trumps "genre". ime the distance created by scifi/fantasy is v useful
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probably just research design bias from them choosing bad genre fiction, since to them genre means bad
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let me put up The Player of Games against yon fuckin' bored-boring-white-adulterers fiction and we'll see what's what
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