@bertrandslama That’s like saying you have a right to claim your neighbour’s yard because it connects to yours, even though his house was built 20 years before you even bought your plot of land.
The funniest part is that he could have easily just bit the bullet and lose nothing in the eyes of his audience. It’s just a hypothetical, he doesn’t actually have to date a trans woman. According to his own worldview and audience, trans women are just women so this question, to him, should be essentially the same as “would you date another woman if you were single?”
But of course he does not actually think trans women are women, he knows trans women are men. And the thought of being with one is so repulsive and embarrassing to him that he doesn’t even want it to be known that he would date one in a hypothetical scenario, that’s why he has to resort to “but I did eat breakfast”
@LarsTheBadMan@ItsBigLasagna Yes, and that society absent of ‘religious boneheads’ is riddled with mental illness and depression, hence the record-breaking amount of anti-depressant prescriptions.
At this point I’d have to ask what exactly “the patriarchy” is to you and how you use the term, because right now it seems like a catch-all explanation where anything that disproportionately disadvantages women is explained in terms of patriarchy, even when men aren’t directly involved or the incentives appear to be primarily economic rather than political.
@CroozlingCat@denimneverdies So your vision for humanity is the death of the individual and the establishment of some new hive-minded species that all work towards a common goal, which I can only assume is some kind of eternal, purely material ‘progression’.
Interesting. I’m inclined to agree somewhat. My disagreement is that I don’t think these insecurities require patriarchy as their primary explanation. Businesses will exploit whatever insecurities people already have, and I think women’s beauty standards are also substantially generated and reinforced through intrasexual competition and social policing by other women. Those dynamics would exist to some degree regardless of men’s private attitudes.
I also think it’s important to distinguish fatphobia from promoting healthy diets and fitness, since there are many legitimate, non-aesthetic reasons to encourage both.
Not to defend the guy responding but 99% of the general population is not equipped to engage with their worldview on an abstract & epistemological level. For the average normie ‘philosophy’ is nothing more than loose quotes and parroting incorrect psychology and sociology slogans.
“What are the logical conclusions of my beliefs when they are pushed to their extremes” really just isn’t a level the average person goes to.
@LetTheFearFly Imagine embodying a stereotype so perfectly that the people on your side literally cannot believe you are a real person who actually exists
@MoralogyEngine@SgtTackleberry@AtheistTakes I don’t know man, sounds like you’re in possession of some groundbreaking data in this field. Might be worth it to contact some of the top universities to help publish your work.