I don't share that attitude, and I don't think Im an aesthete either. Most days I feel like I want to die, but I know I really shouldn't do it. In my ...
(though I do think that part of a certain male virtue signaling and ingratiation toward women involves attributing superior faculties of empathy and r...
Men kill themselves more -- their suffering is concrete, suicide is concrete. I don't think it comes from philosophical positions like pessimism. Thou...
No, it's fine, and I don't expect everyone to notice or have the same opinions about everything. I think men hate men too, and women. I've been told w...
Jokes made between women, open contempt, body language, displays of entitlement and superiority, behavior during crises like infidelity, divorce, and ...
I don't really remember. I've always been attracted to reading about radical political views, and learning about the people that hold them. I like lea...
Yeah, but I think most of the attitudes they espouse are implicit in the way 'non-polemical' women behave. It's a slow, gradual disillusionment. 'But ...
I have a reading list of blogs and image boards. I've also hung out on leftist, rightist/alt-right, and nu-feminist forms. And read a bunch of radfem ...
I'm not sure how to respond to this because, while you are free to believe what you want, a large portion of this is clearly contrary to Schopenhauer ...
I don't think it's about a 'soul' -- all these things are based on contingent social privileges, but they are ones I don't realistically see changing ...
If you want! Though I don't like the kind of smug dismissal that implies since something can be psychoanalyzed it's therefore illegitimate. Why can't ...
At the end of the day, a woman sees you as something that, if her life were in danger, you would be expected to lay down and die so she could live. I ...
I don't. Truth be told, I don't really like being around them -- and I think it's similar to the way a lot of black people don't like being around whi...
Maybe, but just because something can change doesn't mean it will. I have no hope for it myself. People are still just as racist as they ever were, bt...
It's part of why I hate the whole 'men and women of the armed service' bit. Yes, there are women in the armed service. But the inclusion of women alon...
It's obvious that a poor person has a worse shake at absolutely everything regardless of gender. But yeah, correcting for wealth, men have it worse as...
Men very often hit rock bottom -- one of the things in my life that I'm most thankful for has been the way the internet has allowed these men who have...
The sheltered/non-sheltered distinction non-trivially correlates with the female/male distinction in certain ways. Women by and large will simply neve...
I have been depressed, but I'm not really right now. I've had highs and lows and I know the former are nothing compared to the latter. I try to keep t...
I think that life's pressures and pains are so pervasive, so obvious, so intense, and so inevitable that whatever pleasures there may be that aren't j...
No, I don't think so -- nu-feminism is really beside the point, although I think it's more conservative than it lets on, in that the way it plays out ...
Clearly there's an asymmetry between pleasure and pain. It may be difficult to characterize, but I'm convinced that the latter is in some sense the se...
A concrete example for you, csal, since I know you like DFW (definitely a 'male-oriented' author): Yes women read him, but not as much, and not in the...
Maybe. But you can see it, IMO, in the kind of art men v. women create. There are exceptions -- Kate Chopin seemed to have 'the gene,' whatever it was...
Sure, but I've connected far more with men than women, because I empathize with their struggles more. I think by and large women feel entitled to thei...
I don't understand how anything could be evidence against your position. Not seeing something as something for you is just evidence you see it 'as' so...
Men have harder lives. Women have social safety nets available to them that make them live in a sort of bubble, never really experiencing the worst li...
Not really, no. You don't have to individuate something as 'a flash of light' to experience a flash of light. In fact that would make seeing really fu...
Afterimages, having light flash at you, jaundice, shutting your eyes, scintillating scotoma, the ever-elusive and mythical phenomenon of not being sur...
This is just wrong, though. You can have visual experiences without seeing anything 'as' anything, but the reverse isn't true. So what sense of second...
They're not part of the world of appearances, but their transcendental ground ala Kant. Everything of the world of appearances is in time and space, b...
Although, csal, many pessimists and anti-natalists and so on are not pretty boys by any stretch of the imagination. I've met quite a few before, mostl...
Cioran is so handsome :3 Time doesn't really 'exist,' for Schopenhauer, since existence is 'reality' or roughly 'causality,' which presupposes time. T...
There was, but this fact only arises once consciousness does. In other words, the way consciousness is structured is such that it must project time ba...
The word isn't naturally occurring, but the idea is. To deny that people have a notion of experience that's pretty much exactly what philosophers call...
Not really. First of all, if someone asks, 'is he conscious?' what they mean is something like 'is he having experiences?' as opposed to being 'blacke...
I don't think I'm infallible, there's just always a cost to bothering with communication, and there's no obligation to bother with it. Is it really su...
It's fine. I'm a little sick of all of it myself I feel like I've already 'graduated,' no one has anything interesting to say on the subject I haven't...
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