If we say something like, "Geez, it sure is hard getting dates," it's like we told everyone to go fuck themselves. And so we are attacked with these mean-spirited and dismissive rebuttals.
If they were so sure of their rightness instead of stamping out the mere possibility of what we say being true, they would instead be interested in how this strange occurrences of involuntary celibacy came to be.
Feel free to add more of the common come-backs we receive when we complain.
(Edit/Disclaimer) I'm no expert in logic, I just have a mild interest in it, mostly because no one else seems to use it. I may have not identified the most apt fallacy for each example, partly because most of these rebuttals commit multiple fallacies, and I just choose the one that seemed closest.
(edit#2) @Mahlo gave me a few corrections of the fallacies committed, and I have updated the list with his corrections. Thanks! This is probably the last time I can edit this top post, so this is the list for better or worse now.
- "You know people in Africa are starving!" (red herring),
- "If you had really tried you would have been successful!" (affirming the consequent),
- "Well everyone else is getting dates so it's just your own fault!" (sweeping generalization),
- "If you keep trying eventually you'll get a girlfriend." (gambler's fallacy),
- "Have you asked out every girl in the world - if not, you're not really involuntarily celibate!" (moving the goalpost),
- "Women aren't evil creatures!" (moralistic),
- "I've seen people as ugly as you with girlfriends." (cherry picking),
- "People have been having sex since the dawn of time, including your parents, so the fault isn't your ugliness." (survivorship bias),
- "Your toxic masculinity is preventing you from getting laid." (proof surrogate),
- "You're a bad person." (ad-hominem),
- etc etc etc
If they were so sure of their rightness instead of stamping out the mere possibility of what we say being true, they would instead be interested in how this strange occurrences of involuntary celibacy came to be.
Feel free to add more of the common come-backs we receive when we complain.
(Edit/Disclaimer) I'm no expert in logic, I just have a mild interest in it, mostly because no one else seems to use it. I may have not identified the most apt fallacy for each example, partly because most of these rebuttals commit multiple fallacies, and I just choose the one that seemed closest.
(edit#2) @Mahlo gave me a few corrections of the fallacies committed, and I have updated the list with his corrections. Thanks! This is probably the last time I can edit this top post, so this is the list for better or worse now.
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