I agree that identity doesn't come from scratch. Though I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that identity comes from the human psyche, either -- the ...
There are ways in which I believe in it and ways in which I do not. There's the Cartesian full-blown subject which I reject, which already puts me on ...
OK that's interesting. My thought is that as soon as you have an option then you'll leap at it, as I did. It's not that people weren't somewhere on th...
OK, you're right -- not no one no one. I don't think most are, though. I wouldn't reach for guilt-removal/repression-expression as much as I'd reach f...
Is there even a side? Or are there a multiplicity of sides being generated in order to keep people coming back? Either way, no one is immune. I think ...
In the beginning there was the binary, and it was judged good. The binary stated that our biological make-up accounted for our mentality which account...
I think it's a pretty common distinction across languages, though my familiarity is European languages: English as primary with some studies in German...
A joke, yes, but with a point -- it's true we understand one another in this conversation, I believe. Given the indeterminacy of translation, how do w...
I think we assume truth and trust in communication until we have a reason not to trust. So insofar that there's no reason to disbelieve then you're pr...
In any conversation -- I think that makes sense. We usually end conversations when there's too much disagreement or we're confused. And truth be told,...
I agree that sex is the religion of modernity. Individual romantic love with a sexual partner is constantly shown not just as the positive relationshi...
I read it, couldn't think of a response, moved onto the next post and then continued to pursue that thread. Basically I got distracted. It is why I pu...
I'll gladly follow along with a parents' observations over my own thoughts, though offer my thoughts if asked for. I can definitely see the thumbing y...
So this is different than I'd think -- the predictions are beforehand, and if it feels right to break your predictions then I'd say that's more honest...
The origin of philosophy as the artificial satiation of sexual desire? Or the act of philosophy as mating ritual without an object? Something importan...
It's the hardest thing to learn and teach and practice, in my opinion. Levinas' phenomenology is what comes closest to an exposition of listening, but...
Me too. What do you think I'm doing here? Scratch padding my way to that. I don't think "can't be wrong" or "incorrigible" are the right predicates. T...
Heh, sorry. The moth is drawn to the light, and the man playing at philosopher is drawn to disagreement. My thought is that a toxic masculinity is a m...
I think my point can get off the ground insofar that we agree we take people at their word on anything at all. I thought @"Isaac" might view religious...
Is that the demand? I wouldn't go so far as to say people cannot tell false things about themselves. Sure they can, and we do. But when it comes to so...
Totally unintended -- I think we started with toxic masculinity in the old vein of trying to understand the normal from the abnormal. I, to prove your...
Heh. My thinking would differentiate between mere autobiography and History :D -- Biography, sure! That's history. Autobiography? That's primary liter...
I agree that it's not beyond reason. An interpretation of Hume asserts that we're nothing but bundles without an intrinsic nature (another is that rea...
It is. To be fair, most people don't think identity simply does not exist -- they think there is this or that thing to be said about identity. Further...
Yes. That would certainly make everything confusing! You'd have to more or less ask the other person to make clear what we're talking about, and here ...
Oh yes. Complete without any sort of fancy theory of re-interpretation which says "what you really mean is" or some such. I'm uncertain about the just...
At least insofar as I understand things, no. I believe patriarchy targets trans people as it targets women -- it's the same systematic cause. I don't ...
A bit of a challenge to @"Banno"'s idea that agreement is overwhelming -- I don't even think about it after I put it in the cupboard. I go off and do ...
I like this because "should" finally entered the theory -- I really believe this is a topic in ethics more than ontology/epistemology! But it's hard t...
Got it. We can continue using "love" with this clarification. I'm a little uncertain that the two kinds are unrelated, but I believe as we are more aw...
Yes! Power differentials -- or as the anarchists put it, hierarchy -- is a common root to oppression. Or at least a pretty good abstraction of the var...
Once the scenario is changed to one of law, rather than a conflict I can see, I feel my intuitions turn about. Consider the same scenario where a tran...
heh, but again, chauvinism in popular discourse is associated with men -- I suppose I just have to stipulate I'm talking about the system here, someth...
Good point. I should intead say "chauvinism" as a better description -- something that can be practiced by paternals and maternals. That's basically w...
Yes I think so. It's a violent identification from the outside, that is, from me onto them. They aren't speaking about themself, I am speaking about t...
In a way this is a re-expression of the question. How am I doing this linking? How do any of us do it? That's a good question. The first thought in de...
Hrm! People don't identify as misogynists, so that'd be problematic! And I don't think men usually identify as "toxic" either, so the judgment of "tox...
I don't know to what extent Incels are real, but that serves as a more concrete example of what I think of as basically the worst kind of misogyny -- ...
Coming at this from a more functional perspective rather than an imagined type of psychology: a toxic masculinity is an identity which results in miso...
More the point: I believe that we talk about women's bathrooms because we live in a patriarchal society. One of the classic responsibilities of men is...
True! And just because one feels resentment or acts on it I wouldn't say that's even an identity. Whatever "identifying with" means -- if you identify...
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