Possibility

Now I’m confused. If you believe that men and women generally want the same things, then why reify the archetypes? I keep suspecting that you’re using...

Your assumption of my view is way off the mark - nature/nurture is not a mutually exclusive dichotomy, any more than masculine/feminine. My position i...

Personally, I think it’s arrogance to demand that the duration of my life should be my choice. What would be the difference between controlling this a...

He summed it up for me a little differently, as ‘no unanswerable questions; no unquestionable answers’. I take that to mean not so much that he acknow...

I’m aware of what Maslow says about self-actualisation - my own view is constructionist, so I don’t agree that we were born with an essential ‘self’ o...

I think I can see your problem with what I’ve said: fair enough, I don’t think I’ve made myself very clear at all. I was responding to the suggestion ...

As a concept they are exactly what they are - as a process their potential is often corrupted by self-serving ignorance, institutional isolation and f...

The processes you mention (religion, politics, capitalism) are warped and corrupted by ignorance, isolation and exclusion: the conscious and value-dri...

Again - NOT opposites, just different. And self-awareness should always be tempered with honesty and patience, so I’m not talking about giving ourselv...

Rudy knows FA about women, clearly.

You misunderstand me. I’m not talking about denying our wants and needs. I’m talking about denying the yin in our yang. Our wants and needs derive fro...

This is getting repetitive: different is NOT opposite. A man and a woman can be alike in many ways, but we focus our attention and effort on the diffe...

I’m aware of your accusation, but I didn’t dichotomise agency - that was you. ‘Material agency’ is a term used in reference to historical and cultural...

That’s a start. But it’s not as black and white as you seem to think. There’s a tendency in American culture to polarise: freedom vs governance, black...

Who said anything about opposing?

We’re alike, but not the same.

For me, philosophy provided a variety of framework structures with which to rebuild a worldview. Broadening my perspective from a catholic girls schoo...

Mars/Venus was revolutionary at the time. The idea is that our experience of the world is different, and so we can’t expect our cultural and social re...

The similarities are not lost on me. Creative catharsis is an expression of awareness, connection and collaboration between one’s qualitative potentia...

I think there’s a difference between creative catharsis and ‘just emoting’ - it’s in how we direct our interactions. By ‘just emoting’ I’m referring t...

I think you might be missing a vital point here, but it’s quite possible that I’m not making myself clear enough. Most of the feelings we express, we ...

Panpsychists apply the term ‘conscious’ very loosely - the idea is that there is a kind of proto-conscious interaction existing to a lesser and lesser...

I find it interesting that you use the term ‘stoicism’ to describe this lack of communication about one’s feelings. I don’t think communication is as ...

For me, it’s about embracing the complementary as it comes. There are ways that I am ‘typically’ female, and ways that I am not - and you won’t know w...

It’s a result of effort and attention.

It’s commonly referred to as ‘doubt’.

If it has not been expressed - even to the self, in the form of thought - can it be defined as a ‘question’?

Not necessarily a specific unknown, rather a fuzziness or uncertainty to the information. A question is an expression of potentiality. It presents unc...

And he’s basing his research into the subconscious of women on years of experience as a woman and in discussion with women, or years of observing from...

I’m not objecting to the ‘animal’ or ‘object’ association in relation to sex. It’s the compartmentalising that bothers me. As humans, we can be seen a...

I hear you - the surgeon still has the patient’s express consent, though, and takes care to minimise scarring and other concerns she might have as a h...

I understand this, and I never said it was a sexual moment. My point (very poorly made, I admit) was that, even before it becomes sexual, the word con...

I think you misunderstand me - I’m not saying to not refer to ‘breasts’ at all, but too often in teachable situations such as these, no reference is m...

This is consistent with Feldman Barrett’s theory of constructed emotion. By my understanding, information is ‘the difference that makes a difference’,...

Yes. A car IS an object - it has no agency, so whether you treat it with care or not is not the issue. A woman, however is a human being, and so expec...

Not instead of taking - what you’ve described seems to me a mutual collaboration, in that there is give and take on both sides, with consent, for the ...

Thank you. She already is something more. By relating to his gaze - letting go of her physical self-identity - it seems she was able to consciously re...

I agree, and have said as much, that some women will self-objectify and then project. Self-objectification has been found to be a direct result of rep...

Animalistic is not objectification. An animal can still be regarded as having agency - still capable of making choices and having preferences, in this...

I’m with you here.

I happen to have an ample chest but I’m not very tall, and I have a short waist. Most high neckline tops make me look like my breasts are hanging arou...

I’m only suggesting that she recognised a lack of boundary to the self - what he was looking at was an undefined relation to the universe. You don’t t...

Read what I wrote again. I’m referring to her distinguishing between two different gazes, and being able to choose one and not the other. A woman who ...

I agree with this, and said as much.

True, but I think a woman who is prepared to be a nude artist’s model but not a playboy model can tell the difference.

Who said anything about defining? I’m talking about value. And I don’t believe anyone can assume objectification from a look (I’ve already said that)....

I don’t think of that as objectification, either. People who pose naked for artists are choosing the experience of being looked at aesthetically, whic...

There are people in this thread who continue to define objectification as inclusive of aesthetic evaluation, but I disagree with this. It is NOT the s...

Attention: 1. Notice taken of someone or something; the regarding of someone or something as interesting or important. The mental faculty of consideri...

That’s right, you don’t know. There’s no more reason to assume that it already existed in people than that it is learned through mimicking and group a...