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I didn't down vote you but my guess is: The guy has been dead for over a hundred years now. Everybody knows society was more patriarchal back then, pointing it
by Coincoin 10y ago
I didn't down vote you but my guess is: The guy has been dead for over a hundred years now. Everybody knows society was more patriarchal back then, pointing it out just sounds like virtue signaling.
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- CaptainSwing 10y agoI really dislike this term 'virtue signaling'. Although I do not deny the phenomenon, I think that it often functions to shut down debate (kind of like an anti-PC device) To add more substance to my original comment, however (I admit, I should have done so at the start) I was surprised and disapointed to find dozens of comments discussing the virtues (and the odd minor criticism/update) of Chekhov's 'conditions' without any mention (however historically situated) of the clear prejudice, with it which excludes over half of humanity from a 'cultured' existence.