Not to take a stance on any of the wider issues, but that’s not fully general: if all the women who objected were young, for example, it would be false.
Yeah but… he gets to decide how old is “old”—and from what I an tell, his idea of “old” is pretty darn young. Those women who simply cannot be manipulated into the “old” category easily fall into the “jealous” category.
The existance of an infinite sequence of arguments whose union is fully-general doesn’t mean that any given argument is.
Additionally, those counter-arguments aren’t fully general. If you admit of some objective (or inter-subjective, or whatever; collectively accessible) standard of attractiveness, all of these counterarguments would be falsified by a positive correlation between attractiveness and saying feminist things.
This isn’t to say that these counter-arguments aren’t a bad idea for other reasons; we probably want some way of getting information from ugly people, for example.
Not to take a stance on any of the wider issues, but that’s not fully general: if all the women who objected were young, for example, it would be false.
Yeah but… he gets to decide how old is “old”—and from what I an tell, his idea of “old” is pretty darn young. Those women who simply cannot be manipulated into the “old” category easily fall into the “jealous” category.
Just call them fat. If they’re skinny enough to disprove that, resort to calling them ugly.
The existance of an infinite sequence of arguments whose union is fully-general doesn’t mean that any given argument is.
Additionally, those counter-arguments aren’t fully general. If you admit of some objective (or inter-subjective, or whatever; collectively accessible) standard of attractiveness, all of these counterarguments would be falsified by a positive correlation between attractiveness and saying feminist things.
This isn’t to say that these counter-arguments aren’t a bad idea for other reasons; we probably want some way of getting information from ugly people, for example.