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You are promoting your own ability to reason over hundreds of thousands of years of accumulated evolutionary and cultural wisdom. I doubt you'll come out on top
by slibhb 5y ago
You are promoting your own ability to reason over hundreds of thousands of years of accumulated evolutionary and cultural wisdom. I doubt you'll come out on top.
There are good reasons for stigmatizing nakedness, fearing STDs, conceptualizing sex as something that should exist in monogamous, emotionally close relationships, and so on. That's not to say tradition is infallible, only that dismissing it altogether is a mistake.
- standardUser 5y agoThat history and cultural wisdom was based entirely on the oppression and subjugation of women. So, of course many straight men will be swayed by those arguments. But objectively speaking, all of this collective wisdom has created a situation where women still suffer constantly at the hands of men, and men aren't happy either, and are arguably increasingly unhappy! If you want to continue down that path, good luck.
- slibhb 5y ago> objectively speaking I think you meant "subjectively speaking". I don't agree with the way you conceptualize human history as gender struggle. It seems incorrect to me. I don't think we have any option than continuing down the path. Reforms and changes are necessary but we aren't going to create a better way of living by abandoning the past. Our ability to meaningfully critique tradition depends on our treating it as a series of intricate answers to complicated problems, which is what it is.
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoThousands of years of cultural wisdom for an agricultural society. Which were mostly aren’t any more. Things are probably going to change.
- slibhb 5y agoThings change. We've witnessed the raising of women up to men over the past century. Good! But that doesn't necessarily mean we can abandon monogamy or un-problematize sex, nakedness, or bodily functions.