on the header image—yes, it has male/female characters in different roles, but i can think critically and understand that the culture it’s coming from was biased and thus ignore giving any kind of credence to the metaphors behind the literal representation it offers.
on the question “Would you personally ever consider dating a woman who had sold sexual favors?”. yes, i would as i don’t see anything wrong with the practice, as long as it’s consensual.
on “If you call yourself a Communist I will point out that you are choosing a label identified most strongly with mass murderers, and if you call yourself a Christian, one identified with warmongering anti-rationalists. Doing this is beneficial. If you call yourself a ‘communist’, you really will probably end up with an inappropriately positive attitude towards the Soviet Union even as you denounce it as “not really communism”. If you call yourself a Muslim you really will probably end up with a level of sympathy for Islamic terrorists that you lack for terrorists of other types even as you insist that they are misguided and that “Islam is really a religion of peace”.”
i think that’s a slippery slope argument. to look at communism, there’s a difference between marxism, marxism-leninism, stalanism, maoism, anarcho-communism, etc. i’m a socialist, of which communism is a subset, but i’m of the social democrat variety, and again, i’m of the subset of social democrats that argue towards decentralisation of power, offering more forms of direct democracy, etc, rather than, for example, the variety of social democracy you get from the Labour Party in the UK in this day and age.
“In the case of feminism it is totally clear to me that many of the more prominent feminists endorse positions diametrically opposed to equal rights and to rational thought and it sure seemed to me like you did as well based on your posts.”
this statement leaves me wondering if you have much knowledge of feminism at all. can you say what prominent feminists or varieties of feminism have you read about which espouse tenets “diametrically opposed to equal rights and to rational thought”? yes, there exists ‘separatist feminism’, but that’s only one (very flawed imo) variety of feminism among much wide and more important strands of thought.
on the header image—yes, it has male/female characters in different roles, but i can think critically and understand that the culture it’s coming from was biased and thus ignore giving any kind of credence to the metaphors behind the literal representation it offers.
on the question “Would you personally ever consider dating a woman who had sold sexual favors?”. yes, i would as i don’t see anything wrong with the practice, as long as it’s consensual.
on “If you call yourself a Communist I will point out that you are choosing a label identified most strongly with mass murderers, and if you call yourself a Christian, one identified with warmongering anti-rationalists. Doing this is beneficial. If you call yourself a ‘communist’, you really will probably end up with an inappropriately positive attitude towards the Soviet Union even as you denounce it as “not really communism”. If you call yourself a Muslim you really will probably end up with a level of sympathy for Islamic terrorists that you lack for terrorists of other types even as you insist that they are misguided and that “Islam is really a religion of peace”.”
i think that’s a slippery slope argument. to look at communism, there’s a difference between marxism, marxism-leninism, stalanism, maoism, anarcho-communism, etc. i’m a socialist, of which communism is a subset, but i’m of the social democrat variety, and again, i’m of the subset of social democrats that argue towards decentralisation of power, offering more forms of direct democracy, etc, rather than, for example, the variety of social democracy you get from the Labour Party in the UK in this day and age.
“In the case of feminism it is totally clear to me that many of the more prominent feminists endorse positions diametrically opposed to equal rights and to rational thought and it sure seemed to me like you did as well based on your posts.”
this statement leaves me wondering if you have much knowledge of feminism at all. can you say what prominent feminists or varieties of feminism have you read about which espouse tenets “diametrically opposed to equal rights and to rational thought”? yes, there exists ‘separatist feminism’, but that’s only one (very flawed imo) variety of feminism among much wide and more important strands of thought.