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I didn't make a claim about what Agustino said in that sense, I pointed out what he was doing-- that the way in which he was acting which do not fit h...
November 26, 2017 at 23:48
Well, I'm telling you it is disrespectful of women; I pointed out how in my last post. Have you got an argument about how that is wrong or mistaken?
November 26, 2017 at 23:43
His intention is clear: to divert any discussion of the actions of abusive men into questions about whether a woman was dressing decently. It's sexism...
November 26, 2017 at 23:36
Whether dressing in certain way causes people to be assaulted or harassed and the legal and moral responsibility in the sense you are talking about, a...
November 26, 2017 at 23:18
I was referring you. The issue is that the topic of discussion is not how a women might prevent instances of harassment or assault, but rather how the...
November 26, 2017 at 14:03
The accusations of sexism are right becasue there is still an underlying objectification of women occurring in their accusations of responsibility. As...
November 26, 2017 at 11:38
Yes, they are. We can see in someone's actions whether they are sexist. One literally cannot hide it. For it to be hidden, we would literally have to ...
November 26, 2017 at 09:59
How? They're always already out in the open because they are acts taken towards other people. I mean you're right that people might try to hide their ...
November 26, 2017 at 09:50
Right, and that shaming was not some attempt to hide issues beneath a taboo. It was to have them out in the open: to describe the immorality of sexism...
November 26, 2017 at 09:44
Yes, it is. You directly attacked SLX, Timeline, baden (and maybe me; I can't remember if I had joined at that point) for daring to shame sexism in th...
November 26, 2017 at 09:36
I'm talking about the shame you brought up: the various attacks that people in this thread had toxic understandings and behaviours. That's not hiding ...
November 26, 2017 at 09:33
Well, that's why I said you've not understood what shame is in this context nor what is being shamed. Shame in this thread is exactly the opposite of ...
November 26, 2017 at 09:24
I’ve gone through about three different arguments with you so far, but I’ll return to the first one because I think it's the one you mean. The argumen...
November 26, 2017 at 09:01
Sure. No argument from me there. The problem is you then running to conclusions or implications that I'm not saying anything, simply because you haven...
November 26, 2017 at 08:39
To which I say: so? How does that justify claiming nothing I've written make any sense, given there we whole section about he topic which didn't have ...
November 26, 2017 at 08:23
That was a typo/autocorrect; it was meant to be "because." I also call bullshit. There's no way I've made so many errors that I'm somehow utterly unin...
November 26, 2017 at 07:39
Clearly... My point is understanding someone is immoral is shaming; they are said to be wrong, to have negative value, to need to change their actions...
November 26, 2017 at 07:30
It can only be morally right for you to shame me (in the sense of pointing out I'm wrong and its seriousness); you are describing the moral significan...
November 26, 2017 at 07:16
Teaching women how to handle unwanted attention from men. As discussed here: "If you want to teach young men to respect young women as persons -- whic...
November 26, 2017 at 07:08
It's the literally definition: if I understand an action is immoral, I am ashamed for having taken it.
November 26, 2017 at 07:06
That's entirely tangential to the point though, as the issue here is not: "How do women handle men who would by them unwanted attention?" but rather t...
November 26, 2017 at 07:04
The point is understanding an action is immoral is shame. It means one holding someone has a value of failure becasue of the action they have taken. T...
November 26, 2017 at 06:59
Yeah, that wrong; as said earlier, it's the basic understanding someone has taken and immoral action, the awareness is something ought not be done. If...
November 25, 2017 at 11:07
That would be a strawman; we are shaming objectification, not sexual desire or sexual attraction. Our point is there is no need for attraction or desi...
November 25, 2017 at 11:01
That's wrong. Shame is a critical aspect of ethical teaching. We use it all the time to project immoral significance of and communicate how a person h...
November 25, 2017 at 10:44
By exactly the sort of arguments made in this thread (amongst other things): pointing out the objectification is unacceptable (and that it's not attra...
November 25, 2017 at 10:29
It means we are shaming them for thinking attraction to women is equivalent to getting what you desire, rather than men being attracted to women. We a...
November 25, 2017 at 10:26
My point is you have misunderstood the shame. The issue with the arguments of several people in this thread isn't feeling attraction. It's their under...
November 25, 2017 at 09:58
They ought to be shamed. It is their view of women which is the issue here. In the case, the issue wasn't sexual mores per se (e.g. men ogling women) ...
November 25, 2017 at 09:22
I don't think that has anything to do with it. The question isn't if one scared to belong to another or couldn't be the slave to a master; I think is ...
November 10, 2017 at 13:23
For then they are not one: only the one is present, a master who believes the relationship is constituted only in himself, his value and his desire-- ...
November 10, 2017 at 13:17
I mean to one thinks the heart of another at their control. Like one could make another want them no matter what, without any reference to what the pe...
November 10, 2017 at 13:09
Depends which sort of erotic conquerer you are talking about. Plenty could care less about the woman wanting them, viewing their exchange purely in te...
November 10, 2017 at 13:01
People enacted them. That is their origin. For the most part, they are not planned at all, but driven by an instinctual response to the presence or ab...
October 15, 2017 at 11:42
I'm not sure what to say. In some instances, I think it has been too strict, in others, not strict enough (or at least things were allowed to spiral o...
October 14, 2017 at 23:13
The actual argument has to do with how people were position by the economic and social systems of control to be adverse to homosexuality-- it breaks t...
October 14, 2017 at 22:58
I assume you mean in comparison to the "bodily self." Both are real. One the one hand their are logical significances of the self, such as what one me...
October 13, 2017 at 21:28
Having to with the self, it actually has a lot to do with metaphysics, perhaps more than bodies with respect to how someone is talked about or related...
October 13, 2017 at 20:55
By recognising the present. We might return to your initial question about going back in time to kill Hitler. If we were to send someone back, kill Hi...
October 08, 2017 at 11:40
For sure... but this shows the dualist argument to be incoherent. In the dualist arguing that both "substances" are real, he poses them in relation, a...
September 15, 2017 at 22:06
In a sense you're probably using the world, not much... but it's important to remember this isn't talking about distinctions of "real" and "illusion."...
September 15, 2017 at 21:25
The lecturer is right about biological sex (at least in terms of the body; it is correct to say biological sex exists as a socially formed understandi...
September 15, 2017 at 21:21
In a way, but it's more than that. I'm saying Substance means the being or existence of anything that might exist or be in relation. It doesn't just h...
September 15, 2017 at 20:50
Substance. Spinoza's point is about the logic of having things that interact or in relation in the first place. If I have two states that are connecte...
September 15, 2017 at 14:01
Fear that scientific understanding will be destroyed is founded in doing science backwards, as if we were describing or understand bodies by finding a...
August 19, 2017 at 01:27
I don't think so, to me it seems more like you are attacking the ease with which people can view, listen or know about art-- that there is so little w...
August 17, 2017 at 04:58
Half the people in question don't know what they are talking about. The tree is in front of them and they haven't noticed it. And then some of them th...
August 17, 2017 at 01:06
Only if you are commit about three equivocation fallacies, such that you equate criticising sexists with attacking women. At least in most cases. Ther...
August 17, 2017 at 01:03
My point was never that there was a universally understood concept of sexism. Just the opposite, that sexism is a logical expression objectively defin...
August 17, 2017 at 00:53
Sexism is an objective phenomena. If your are treating women as lesser, that is an objective expression of the world. If you are specifically attackin...
August 17, 2017 at 00:48