When women talk about these things, they bake in a lot of assumptions.
So women are more prone to care about feelings and less about truth, let's say that's true. Can they improve upon that? Can they be taught to cut out the canceling bullshit and learn to live with the discomforts of reality?
When women talk about these things, they bake in a lot of assumptions.
So women are more prone to care about feelings and less about truth, let's say that's true. Can they improve upon that? Can they be taught to cut out the canceling bullshit and learn to live with the discomforts of reality?
Let's say women are hypergamous. Can a female lawyer learn to love a male plumber? Can a 5'10" lady figure out how to be attracted to men shorter than her?
When women talk, the answers to all of these questions are assumed to be no. The Louise Perry viewpoint is deeply conservative in the sense that it assumes that women simply are the way they are and that societies should be tailored to their needs.
Conversely, the idea that men should be locked into a state of slavery to their own sexual desires in order to be molded into some more useful form is a different type of assumption. What if men who sit around and watch porn and play video games are happier than men who start a business and get married? Why is that wrong? Isn't in incumbent on a woman seeking a partner to prove that she's bringing more to the table than that low baseline?
When women talk about these things, they bake in a lot of assumptions.
So women are more prone to care about feelings and less about truth, let's say that's true. Can they improve upon that? Can they be taught to cut out the canceling bullshit and learn to live with the discomforts of reality?
Let's say women are hypergamous. Can a female lawyer learn to love a male plumber? Can a 5'10" lady figure out how to be attracted to men shorter than her?
When women talk, the answers to all of these questions are assumed to be no. The Louise Perry viewpoint is deeply conservative in the sense that it assumes that women simply are the way they are and that societies should be tailored to their needs.
Conversely, the idea that men should be locked into a state of slavery to their own sexual desires in order to be molded into some more useful form is a different type of assumption. What if men who sit around and watch porn and play video games are happier than men who start a business and get married? Why is that wrong? Isn't in incumbent on a woman seeking a partner to prove that she's bringing more to the table than that low baseline?
John do you believe in the constrained or unconstrained vision of life as described by Thomas Sowell?
With respect to the issues at hand, I lean more towards unconstrained.