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What's interesting to me is the opposite. Why aren't we screaming about the systemic oppression that must be forcing men to act violently?
by willcipriano 3y ago
What's interesting to me is the opposite. Why aren't we screaming about the systemic oppression that must be forcing men to act violently?
- tomlockwood 3y ago> must be Why do you think this?
- Georgelemental 3y agoI suspect the sarcasm went over your head.
- ggm 3y agoIt's an analogue of rational market theory: no asocial choice can be rationalised as a good long-term plan so there must be externalities which are causative. I don't believe in rational market players with full knowledge and equal information any more than I believe all violent men had externalities which were causative. But I do believe poverty and epigenetic influences can exist.
- artificialLimbs 3y agoMajority of criminals are from abusive or fatherless homes. That's the externality.
- olalonde 3y agoI believe it was sarcasm. There's a surprisingly prevalent, but misguided, school of thought which asserts that disparities in outcomes across gender or racial lines imply sexism or racism. This concept is closely associated with the "tabula rasa" or "blank slate" theory[0]. Thomas Sowell wrote an entire book that debunks this idea ("Discrimination and Disparities"). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_rasa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_rasa
- roughly 3y agoThis is actually a thread in feminist theory, which is ignored more broadly for reasons I’m sure you can imagine.
- KennyBlanken 3y agoWhat's interesting to me is that we're apparently letting a completely ludicrous, unsupported claim to go unchallenged.
- benatkin 3y agoThen you would notice that the averages between men and women on some things like height are significantly different even though it's easy to find individual counter-examples.