everyone I’ve ever had sex with was a cousin of some degree
Ironically for more and more men, a sex life short of visiting prostitutes has become an inaccessibility. Just look at how far this trend has gotten in Japan:
Rejections have consequences. You have to wonder if women’s exclusion of more and more men from sexual relationships plays a role in women’s perception of becoming the targets of “misogyny,” namely, men’s lack of empathy for women who don’t value a whole lot of men on the most basic biological level.
What the heck does that have to do with the OP? Were the quotation at the beginning not there, I’d be asking you if you meant to post that in the open thread and posted it here by mistake.
It does a decent job of refuting the central emotional thrust of chaosmage’s argument. (And chaosmage’s argument is purely emotional).
The point is that despite chaosmage’s call for empathy based on distant kinship, he is in fact bad at empathizing with people in different circumstances. This also demonstrates the problem with using distant kinship as a basis for empathy/solidarity.
I can’t see anything in the OP specifically about empathy towards involuntary celibates or the lack thereof, either in the sentence advancedatheist quoted or elsewhere.
(FWIW I agree that the OP’s argument is silly, but object connotationally to advancedatheist’s comment, but let’s not go into it.)
Ironically for more and more men, a sex life short of visiting prostitutes has become an inaccessibility. Just look at how far this trend has gotten in Japan:
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/03/26/japan-now-has-so-many-30-year-old-virgins-its-language-needs-a-new-slang-term-for-them/
Rejections have consequences. You have to wonder if women’s exclusion of more and more men from sexual relationships plays a role in women’s perception of becoming the targets of “misogyny,” namely, men’s lack of empathy for women who don’t value a whole lot of men on the most basic biological level.
What the heck does that have to do with the OP? Were the quotation at the beginning not there, I’d be asking you if you meant to post that in the open thread and posted it here by mistake.
It does a decent job of refuting the central emotional thrust of chaosmage’s argument. (And chaosmage’s argument is purely emotional).
The point is that despite chaosmage’s call for empathy based on distant kinship, he is in fact bad at empathizing with people in different circumstances. This also demonstrates the problem with using distant kinship as a basis for empathy/solidarity.
I can’t see anything in the OP specifically about empathy towards involuntary celibates or the lack thereof, either in the sentence advancedatheist quoted or elsewhere.
(FWIW I agree that the OP’s argument is silly, but object connotationally to advancedatheist’s comment, but let’s not go into it.)