And I did not “leave it at that”, I stated what my position was and left it to bogus to show the counterevidence.
What counterevidence is needed? I realize that this most likely doesn’t apply to you, but when someone complains about being “told that they are an oppressor”, this is prima facie evidence that they were in fact behaving oppressively in some way—such as by taking part in a potentially oppressive power structure. If they were completely uninvolved, they would probably dismiss the original complaints as absurd. Sticks and stones will break my bones, and all that.
And once again, Silas’s conclusion turns out to be correct. Here we see bogus shortly thereafter drift off into the la-la land of “unfalsifiable all-encompassing conspiracy theories”.
That’s not an “unfalsifiable all-encompassing conspiracy theory”, it’s simple historical and sociological fact. Rules of “proper behavior” when relating to women are hundreds of years old, and their overall character has consistently been paternalistic and mildly depersonalizing. The worst aspects of them have since been corrected, but we still face a lot of cultural inertia.
What counterevidence is needed? I realize that this most likely doesn’t apply to you, but when someone complains about being “told that they are an oppressor”, this is prima facie evidence that they were in fact behaving oppressively in some way—such as by taking part in a potentially oppressive power structure. If they were completely uninvolved, they would probably dismiss the original complaints as absurd. Sticks and stones will break my bones, and all that.
That’s not an “unfalsifiable all-encompassing conspiracy theory”, it’s simple historical and sociological fact. Rules of “proper behavior” when relating to women are hundreds of years old, and their overall character has consistently been paternalistic and mildly depersonalizing. The worst aspects of them have since been corrected, but we still face a lot of cultural inertia.