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This is not about access to pornography or sex robots or sex workers. This is, once again, about power, control, resentment, and misogyny. Thought experiments such as this perpetuate the idea that women exist for the pleasure and edification of men. You would never guess that women are people, not some amorphous being or abstract concept. The Beckys and Stacys they talk about are gross caricatures. Do not make the mistake of symphathising, they do not think women are human and as such they should be controlled-like a commodity.
Many have the luxury of thought experiments because the reality has never and will never happen to them."
"Knowing how to, and willingness to love and care for others will vastly increase a man's chances for not just sex but good sex. It requires some courage and vulnerability. These men appear to be narcissists who have embraced a virulent form of libertarianism, framed in a Hugh Hefner fantasy. They can still learn to be loving, caring humans."
"Agreed. What the so called Incels want is rape. The right to rape; sex when they demand it. They do not have a right to rape. If they are lonely, they need to work on their interpersonal skills. "
"The entire framing of this is wrong. Within the last 100 years women have started to not be treated like property (started, not completed yet). A true libertarian economist would realize that the best way to resolve a supply and demand issue in a market, here the sex market, would be to completely liberate women because the marketplace, as we're so crass to describe it, would clear itself without significant distribution issues if women didn't have to worry about sexual assault and had access to reproductive health care from places like Planned Parenthood. Instead of appreciating the economic, social, psychic, spiritual, philosophical, cultural benefits of liberating women, white men wring their hands that liberating women has left some men without sex and therefore angry. So once again we have to direct our attention to the violent, petulant, angry white man and his problems and see if we can come up with robot sex slaves since owning women is thankfully now out of favor. I'm so tired of white men and their nonsense"
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Mr. Douthat proposes that “late-modern” sexual liberation and neoliberals have generated the loose, lawless atmosphere that’s created a new breed of women-hating, horny, angry, aggressive men. Blame it on Betty Friedan!
Right.
In fact, men have used rape as a weapon of war for millennia. If they wanted sex? They took it by force. And preachy orthodox religious men (Christians, Muslims, others) have repeatedly sought to isolate, control, silence, punish women to insure they, like brood mares, produced legitimate sons for their husbands.
Misogynists are an old old breed. Every woman worth her salt knows it. And no, sorry, Ross, not many women are out demanding sex “as a right.” False equivalence.
That’s a boy thing. "
Funny thing is that in no way did author ever condone rape lol.
Source : https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/...n=opinion-c-col-left-region#commentsContainer
This is not about access to pornography or sex robots or sex workers. This is, once again, about power, control, resentment, and misogyny. Thought experiments such as this perpetuate the idea that women exist for the pleasure and edification of men. You would never guess that women are people, not some amorphous being or abstract concept. The Beckys and Stacys they talk about are gross caricatures. Do not make the mistake of symphathising, they do not think women are human and as such they should be controlled-like a commodity.
Many have the luxury of thought experiments because the reality has never and will never happen to them."
"Knowing how to, and willingness to love and care for others will vastly increase a man's chances for not just sex but good sex. It requires some courage and vulnerability. These men appear to be narcissists who have embraced a virulent form of libertarianism, framed in a Hugh Hefner fantasy. They can still learn to be loving, caring humans."
"Agreed. What the so called Incels want is rape. The right to rape; sex when they demand it. They do not have a right to rape. If they are lonely, they need to work on their interpersonal skills. "
"The entire framing of this is wrong. Within the last 100 years women have started to not be treated like property (started, not completed yet). A true libertarian economist would realize that the best way to resolve a supply and demand issue in a market, here the sex market, would be to completely liberate women because the marketplace, as we're so crass to describe it, would clear itself without significant distribution issues if women didn't have to worry about sexual assault and had access to reproductive health care from places like Planned Parenthood. Instead of appreciating the economic, social, psychic, spiritual, philosophical, cultural benefits of liberating women, white men wring their hands that liberating women has left some men without sex and therefore angry. So once again we have to direct our attention to the violent, petulant, angry white man and his problems and see if we can come up with robot sex slaves since owning women is thankfully now out of favor. I'm so tired of white men and their nonsense"
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Mr. Douthat proposes that “late-modern” sexual liberation and neoliberals have generated the loose, lawless atmosphere that’s created a new breed of women-hating, horny, angry, aggressive men. Blame it on Betty Friedan!
Right.
In fact, men have used rape as a weapon of war for millennia. If they wanted sex? They took it by force. And preachy orthodox religious men (Christians, Muslims, others) have repeatedly sought to isolate, control, silence, punish women to insure they, like brood mares, produced legitimate sons for their husbands.
Misogynists are an old old breed. Every woman worth her salt knows it. And no, sorry, Ross, not many women are out demanding sex “as a right.” False equivalence.
That’s a boy thing. "
Funny thing is that in no way did author ever condone rape lol.
Source : https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/...n=opinion-c-col-left-region#commentsContainer