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As a child of the very early 80's besides my father Arnold was one of my role models growing up. Given that I'm not at all a bodybuilder and prefer academic th
by agentgt 10y ago
As a child of the very early 80's besides my father Arnold was one of my role models growing up.
Given that I'm not at all a bodybuilder and prefer academic things I have generally avoided admitting that but the 80s were a different time.
In college I tried explaining my liking for Arnold and so many superficial things would come up that I would quickly dismiss the topic.
Many individuals are truly impressive if you take a deep holistic perspective of their accomplishment and who they are as person even with faults (on the other hand there are many that probably deserve less praise).
Yeah Arnold has been a sexist and I don't agree on his political stances but many of the greats I'm sure have some serious character flaws (e.g. Isaac Newton, Edison and Jobs were not exactly saints).
- gdulli 10y agoCalling a man who repeatedly groped and humiliated women publicly just a "sexist" is the reason the behavior still exists.
- agentgt 10y agoWhat would you like me to call it or him? Believe me I know his behavior was most likely inappropriate I'm just not sure what label should be applied. If you think I misrepresented the labeling of him I might agree with it some more research (which is difficult). If I offended you by not taking a more severe label I apologize. I'm not often very descriptive. Most of the founding fathers of the country were exceptionally devious (rapeist and extremely sexist) but we rarely apply labels to them. We probably should.