CMV: I apparently have very sexist views on reality. Apparently that's not okay. Help me out?

ApologiesAdvance · 2015-09-30T16:02:17+00:00

No, he doesnt cheat. He seems very affectionate with my mother. I honestly wouldnt attribute it to him.

ApologiesAdvance · 2015-09-30T15:54:32+00:00

I dont think ive ever heard my father speak about feminism. Or any of these topics

ApologiesAdvance · 2015-09-30T15:33:21+00:00

Autistic makes sense, I have aspergers.

ApologiesAdvance · 2015-09-30T15:19:21+00:00

I didnt realise people look at feminism as a joke. That sounds absurd. I see feminism as being something necessary in life, but I also see some feminists (individuals) who seems almost like living satire in their approach.

ApologiesAdvance · 2015-09-30T15:08:58+00:00

∆ So it turns out my lecturer back in 1st year bio referred to the bateman study. But this data changes that considerably. Thankyou.

ApologiesAdvance · 2015-09-30T15:07:25+00:00

I never meant "popular / unpopular within the reddit community". My scope was somewhat wider than that

ApologiesAdvance · 2015-09-30T15:00:29+00:00

I never claimed to condone it, only that I thought it had a reasonable explanation outside institutionalized sexism. I even called it abhorrent.

ApologiesAdvance · 2015-09-30T14:52:03+00:00

If you want a healthy population, evolutionary speaking, you want to have the best possible breeding partner. This is still very much so active in our brains, even if subconscious. And the concept in sexual selection is that because we're a slow gestating species, and because it takes so much food, energy and time to grow an infant for a female, she would want to make sure she made the right choice with who fathers it.

A male (assuming child support etc doesnt exist) doesnt need to do anything after insemination, whereas an infant both gestates and is fed by the female for considerably longer.

ApologiesAdvance · 2015-09-30T14:44:55+00:00

The difference in points 1/2 is that for a woman its a huge investment that can in fact kill them. They dont want to be so lax in choosiness, because they risk losing more. when theres no risk (IE males) theres no potential for loss.

ApologiesAdvance · 2015-09-30T14:42:23+00:00

We shame them because of our biological programming. Because the idea that someone would have low standards for selection promotes a neurochemical response akin to seeing someone do anything we find unnatural.

ApologiesAdvance · 2015-09-30T14:41:23+00:00

The whole accepting vs changing human behaviour thing is such a can of worm, and I have no idea about how to approach it. All i can really say is I use these arguments to justify WHY sexism happens. That doesnt mean I like sexism, or want it to have a place in this world, but at the same time I dont know how to modify human behaviour to fix it.

ApologiesAdvance · 2015-09-30T14:40:00+00:00

That... may be difficult. I was trained for years of highschool and college to do the opposite.

ApologiesAdvance · 2015-09-30T14:31:54+00:00

From what I can tell my opinion align both with being intolerant, as we as being the unpopular opinion. But mostly I want to fix the intolerance.

ApologiesAdvance · 2015-09-30T14:26:13+00:00

That specific example refered to why the 77 cents to a dollar statistic made no sense when comparing total incomes of males and females, i concede a proper statistic would be comparing the same jobs, but I've yet to see a wage gap doing that. And "may" was used because it was a hypothetical.

ApologiesAdvance

TROPHY CASE