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>Evolutionary psychology is a valid science, however, and this is an enormous however, untrained individuals attempting to use it to enforce social norms is abs
by 127 14y ago
>Evolutionary psychology is a valid science, however, and this is an enormous however, untrained individuals attempting to use it to enforce social norms is absolutely 100% sexist.
I personally believe that sexism is not immediately a negative thing, but neutral. Sex based discrimination is useful and can hold a lot of value in determining our next course of action.
Using sexism as a moral axiom is illogical. What's worse, it's censoring free thought through intimidation of social irrelevance.
Logic should be followed through without unnecessary moral burden. Observations should be made without the need to justify oneself purely for making them.
Just despairing with how the word sexism is conflated with so many other things in the internet rhetoric. Maybe this is more of an American thing.
- DannoHung 14y agoSexism implies discrimination. Every single word in your statement could substitute racism or ageism for sexism and it wouldn't make anything you're saying any more meaningful. Does racism also mean something else in the dialect of English you speak?
- 127 14y agoI don't see conflating racism, sexism and ageism very useful. They all have different causes and validity, depending on context. Does attaching -ism after the word "nerd" make nerds suddenly an oppressed group? There's nothing wrong with discrimination as such. Dividing two things into separate compartments gives us the ability to process their differences instead of trying to fit two thing together that do not go together, again, depending on context. But discrimination definitely is a very useful mental tool. A word about racism. I see it mostly as an in-built defense tactic for territory and one's own genetic line. Is this outdated? Perhaps. Does this have anything to do with sexism? Not really that I can see. Other than the -ism at the end.
- rmc 14y agoYes, I suppose what you are saying is correct, but what you're talking about is not the main form of sexism in modern cultures. It is nearly always is used to keep women down, merely because they are women. Likewise for race. Often people who talk about evo psych are trying to justify why its ok to forcibly have sex with someone who is wearing a skirt of some defined length. We haven't gotten rid of the "bad sexism" stuff yet, so you're theoretical sexism free utopia is purely theoretical at the moment.