covering a lot of ground the contents herein include such topics as "the scarcity of angels" and "are prostitutes people?"pic.twitter.com/UWVR9szcZp
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covering a lot of ground the contents herein include such topics as "the scarcity of angels" and "are prostitutes people?"pic.twitter.com/UWVR9szcZp
on "pre-marital frankness," and marriage as a contract: "...the most credit you can give the plan is this clarity of name. It has the virtue of a Pure Food and Drugs Act which without prohibiting adulterants insists that the label declare plainly the contents of the bottle."
on learning from others: "No individual can possibly perform all the experiments necessary...for nature, in her trials, can afford mistakes. She can afford to waste millions of individuals and thousands of years. But we have neither so many lives nor so much time."
"Too often, just when a girl is doing nicely, she will appear with the latest in platinum settings on her third finger...one more example of feminine failure to stick to business? Not necessarily; she may have found a more profitable business opportunity."
on why it made sense for women to pursue equality despite being idealized as paragons of virtue: "The lady on the pedestal discovered that what men said of her...effectively rendered her nobility, purity, and holiness null and void. (1/2)
...There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it to death with cream, but that remains a perfectly feasible method."
Tanner has something to say about women being praised because they are #womenintechpic.twitter.com/xrRXorVqQl
on women resisting their Intrinsic Female Virtue stereotype and acting as "bad as men," "In saying defiantly 'I'll be as bad as you,' the intelligent modern woman does not so much achieve liberty...as impress upon you your obligations...as an exemplar"
basically if women are gonna act like men men must be become Good
"Just as we wish to receive love from the best sources, so we are impelled to select nice people as recipients of this gift."
"We can only be happy in this world by liking the world, seeing in it people worthy of our attention and admiration...or at least one person."
"...most of us nowadays are willing to agree that the worth-while people of either sex are those who manifest qualities attributed to the other camp, while retaining their own."
"The best men and women are above sex limitations...the best idea of God is above them." she is arguing that god must be dually masculine and feminine and that referring to god as "he" is a mistake
this book is getting a hell of a lot more theological than I expected
"Science today is in the place occupied by faith in the Middle Ages; secure in its hold on popular faith, it amuses itself by bizarre speculation, and learned doctors number the germs on a pinhead like medieval scholars determining the number of angels in the same space"
woah she's arguing that religion should have leveraged the theory of evolution and preached it as the means by which man can improve and become closer to god george bernard shaw's granddaughter confirmed transhumanist
she just referred to the entire Behaviorist philosophy as reductio ad absurdum
"More than the churches which honor material life with the forms of beauty, psychologists send us back begging and desperate in search of a spiritual universe."
"We have no right to quarrel with the modern writer because his conclusions are different from those of earlier moralists...But we have every right to quarrel if we suspect him of drawing conclusions in memory of a semester of psychology."
okay okay I think I finally get what she was doing for 50 pages of talk on science, religion, realism and romance might be too high to summarize
no wait I got it I think she is arguing that romance incentivizes you to git gud
at last we come to the chapter "are prostitutes people?" hoo boy
ok apparently 1. prostitution is a sin 2. but amateur promiscuity is worse because it is a sin engaged in between friends aaaaand
"perversion may be classified as an even graver error on the grounds that nowadays it seems to flourish among so-called intellectuals, whose sin is greater than the sins of the less fortunate because of their opportunity to do and know better" holy shit
oh dear apparently it's time for some homophobia? unclear
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