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Degrees of Feminism

Orangey

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It may be a "staple method", but that doesn't make the disciplines "inseparable". Perhaps we're talking past one another on this point, and since it is tangential to this thread's subject matter, I will say nothing more on it.

I'll repeat my point one last time. If your goal was to understand "the society of now," and you sought, therefore, to avoid history by looking to the fields of sociology and psychology for an explanation, then you would be disappointed, because very little macro-level sociological or social-psychological research is ahistorical. History would most likely be incorporated into the work you read in those fields, so what is the point of excluding pure history when it is bound to be present in these other fields? Unless, are you saying that you would only read sociological or psychological research which was experimental and quantitative?

I'm not looking for a causal explanation of contemporary society, as is already clear; I am interested in its present state. "Contemporary society" means "the society of now". No further discussion of this term will be had, lest we wibble.

Well, wouldn't simply understanding the functioning of "the society of now" be an incomplete understanding? Nevermind.

I didn't suggest that you ought to. To repeat myself yet again: I expected you to ask for the definition, which you did:

I cannot be any more lucid on this point, and so will not repeat myself again.

Perhaps I could be more lucid, then, because something is obviously impeding your ability to understand simple points. I said that generic feminism does not exist because the term is not widely recognized. You may be the only person on Earth using the term at all, and if you're not, then the other two people using it probably mean something completely different. So, no, the term does not exist, regardless of whatever definition you've invented for it.

Perhaps a better way of saying "does not exist" would be to say "not widely recognized as having any fixed meaning." Like I said with my green=greeb example, just because I say a word exists does not make it so. I am therefore failing to understand where you find a contradiction between my declaring the word nonexistent without waiting for your definition. If the word had existed outside of your head, then I wouldn't have had to ask in the first place.

I didn't imply that you were.

You are becoming tiresome. Let's go over this one last time.

1. You said that feminism was not correct.
2. I asked you specifically what you meant by "feminism is not correct," and also what you meant by "feminism."
3. You said you meant by "feminism is not correct" that "feminism is false." Then you said that by "feminism" you meant "generic feminism."

In response #3 I had originally expected you to answer the question directly by actually giving your definition of feminism, which would include the specific propositions which you found to be false, and explaining why each of them was false. That would be productive to the conversation. Instead, I got a literal response. If you were not trying to be a smartass, and you were not trying to imply that I needed to know that "feminism is not correct"="feminism is false," then why did you give that response? Are you just extremely literal-minded?

These two remarks indicate an abject failure to comprehend what I have said, which, in virtue of my statements' complexity and your performance so far, is probably unsurprising.

Frankly, though I've been exceptionally (and uncharacteristically) patient and generous so far, I'm now tired of explaining the same points multiple times to people who seemingly lack the necessary intelligence to comprehend them, not to mention the ability to exercise even a semblance of control over their cognitive vices. Debate is only enjoyable when the person with whom you are debating is a peer, rather than an inferior.

Thus, since you are unable to ask questions or make comments which tell me that you have understood, our discussion is over. Feel free to have the last word.

Apologies if this all sounds a bit blunt, by the way, but there is no other way to to communicate what I want to say.

Nice meltdown.

The only reason you're having to explain yourself multiple times is because you inexplicably refuse to say anything else in response to rebuttals. You insist that no one is understanding you when it is in fact you who is failing to understand anyone else, so like a child, you put your hands over your ears and continue shouting the same thing over and over again. Now I suppose you're at the point where you realize that the shouting doesn't work, so you've resorted to childish attacks on others' intelligence ("no, you're dumb!") What's most delicious is that for someone apparently so obsessed with other people's levels of detachment, you sure have a low anger threshold yourself.

Oh well, go whine pathetically about how "no one understands me, they're all so dumb" somewhere else.
 
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Shut it.

A woman should open her mouth for only two reasons.

The second one is to thank me for letting her suck my dick.
 

Helios

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So subtle that it doesn't make any sense to go out of my way to distinguish them. "History is impotant!! I love it! But not when it comes to feminism. I'm not going to use it at all to come to my conclusions in this particular matter, because other things are better imo.." is the same as saying "History is useless here."

Not useless, but there are better ways of understanding present society. I feel I have made this clear.

What difference are you trying to convey? It isn't just *my* lack of understanding.. THREE people have 'mistaken' your words now. Something isn't communicating right, and apparently it isn't the way we're reading your post. That's all I was saying.

There is a difference between understanding x and understanding the cause(s) of x. Simple stuff. Your appeal to the number of people who have not understood me is informally fallacious.

All I said was you're mistaken in thinking she's completely emotionally invested in what you've said. And it's a bit crazy that you seem to think that people only throw insults around when they're being emotional. Sometimes people just call others out on what they believe to be bullshit. I can think of a slew of INTJs that would prove your reasoning wrong alone.

The evidence I've adduced is sufficient to conclude that she has been exceptionally emotional. I see that she has again berated me about my signature-in spite of the fact that I ended our dialogue some time ago.

Feminism is a very heated topic--I don't doubt passion will come through for people who want to debate it. But I'm saying she wasn't being emotional.. just passionate in the way she debates.

I'd say she was being both.

I communicate with her all the time--I'd hope I'd know the difference between when something TRULY is upseting her, and when she finds something absurd. She's being blunt, and brutal... but that's just the way she is. She's always been that way. There isn't emotional connection involved. Again, that's all I was pointing out.

I don't agree. In my view, the evidence is not only sufficient-it's overwhelming.

If you say so.. But posting in a feminist thread, about how a woman you're debating with (while ever-so gracefully pointing out that you think feminism is a crock of shit) is becoming emotional about your posts.. I suppose it's a knee-jerk reaction to come to the conclusion I did.

I suppose so.

They're saying that you created this definition in your own head that NO ONE Else knows about. It's like saying, "I think Churches are horseshit." And everyone goes "WHAAT!?!" and you go, "Oh, I meant the restaurant.. I know ya'll don't have them here where you live and never heard of them, but if you were to ever try them, they're total shit." :doh:

The term to which you refer was defined immediately after a definition was requested. I have also elaborated on that definition considerably.
 

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Helios, perhaps the way to approach it is to admit that your disbelief in Feminism isn't based on objective logic but subjective rationale, opinion and interpretation of definition. It might garner you a bit more respect.

I'm sure it might garner me some respect. I'm not sure why I'd want to state a falsity to win respect I don't particularly desire, though.
 
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Perhaps some, but I resent the use of history as a tool to understand the present, especially when the aforementioned disciplines are clearly far better placed to do so.

I'm referring to generic Feminism. When I say that I don't think that Feminism is correct, I mean that Feminism is false.

I'd like to try and clarify some of the confusion...

"Feminism" is historical by its very definition (or at least one of its formal definitions); there are two, which is where I think the disconnect is. There's a well cited write-up about "Feminism" on Wikipedia, which focuses on one of the definitions. I'll throw in an excerpt:

"Feminism" is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Feminism concepts overlap women's rights concepts. Feminism is mainly focused on women's issues, but because feminism seeks gender equality, some feminists argue that men's liberation is therefore a necessary part of feminism, and that men are also harmed by sexism and gender roles. "Feminists" are people with beliefs and behaviors that are based on feminism (as defined at the beginning of this paragraph).

Because "feminism" means a collection of movements - depending on the time, culture and country you are talking about (and "time" is the keyword here) - feminists around the world had different causes and goals; thus, it had different meaning to different people.

There's also another definition of "feminism". Some of you are using the above definition and some of you are using another more general definition, which is in the dictionary alongside the definition I stated (above). It appears [MENTION=7330]onemoretime[/MENTION] comes close to defining that in his question (quoted below). I'm also understanding Helios to be referring to the very same general definition out of the dictionary when saying, "generic feminism". I think they are talking about this <--please click the link and see definition 1.

Quick question: is there any reason, other than tradition, that we still call it "feminism" and not "gender egalitarianism?"
 

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I'm sure it might garner me some respect. I'm not sure why I'd want to state a falsity to win respect I don't particularly desire, though.
Therein lies the rub. There's no objectivity to the flow of your logic.

Language is a form of communication. If everyone disagrees with your definition of a word, while subjectively you have the right to your belief in the definition of the word, it doesn't make your interpretation accurate as it relates to the word, particularly for everyone else.

As an example of such, let's take the word strawberry. Most people would take it for a red coloured fruit, shaped where the cylindrical top tapers down to a point on the bottom. There are many tan coloured seeds that are attached to the outside of the fruit, most often sweet and rich in flavour but sometimes a bit tart. Now your definition is that it's actually a fruit that's greenish in colour, where it's not cylindrical, more oval from a top view where it does taper to a blunt end on the bottom but not to a point. You also state that it's sour and sometimes bitter.

While both definitions are somewhat accurate, most people are looking at the positives, as well as the average nature of strawberries. Your definition appears to surround unripe strawberries that aren't of average shape or flavour.

It's very much the same logic as the law analogy expressed in my last post. To use an old adage "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater". There are no perfect people or concepts and to discard the concept due to a lack of perfection particularly when focused on the extreme negative elements of the concept, isn't an objective view or logical in nature.
 

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"Lengthy but trivial or useless talk or writing". I might add "nonsensical" to that also.

That's so interesting because her argument seems more logical and efficient than your own, which seems steeped in flowery unnecessary specialized jargon, meanwhile saying next to nothing in content.

I also think it's interesting that no matter who disagrees with you (ExFP, ENTJ, or ISTP), you find their style of communication disagreeable...is this because they're disagreeing with you?
 
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How can you say that "generic Feminism" doesn't exist when you're unaware of how your interlocutor is defining the term?

I'd define generic Feminism as something like the following:


The position that women ought to enjoy equality (principally legal, social and economic) with men + {miscellaneous propositions}.

When you say "generic feminism," you're talking about both formal definitions of "feminism", correct? I'm basing that on your equation above. Here are the formal definitions I'm referring to:

1. Belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.
2. The movement organized around this belief.

It's the second definition that disturbs you, no? (As represented by the second half of your equation.) Because of the unknown and the knowns of what that entails in the present. Which explains why you don't care about the history of the feminist movement. You are only concerned with the present state of affairs that affects you now and not what led up to it. Am I right??

So you coined the term "generic feminism" to encompass the second definition of feminism (above) and all of its 'knows' and 'unknowns' to *you*, correct?

In summary, you agree with the first definition of equality for the sexes, but not the second definition, as it also applies to the present state of the feminism movement, which you don't agree with 100% of what's being advocated there, correct?
 

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Therein lies the rub. There's no objectivity to the flow of your logic.

There's no objectivity in any form of logic. It all ultimately devolves to mutually agreed-upon points of view, based on criteria that are personally pleasing to the individual.

Language is a form of communication. If everyone disagrees with your definition of a word, while subjectively you have the right to your belief in the definition of the word, it doesn't make your interpretation accurate as it relates to the word, particularly for everyone else.

Or, you may simply disagree with that definition. There's no harm in that.

As an example of such, let's take the word strawberry. Most people would take it for a red coloured fruit, shaped where the cylindrical top tapers down to a point on the bottom. There are many tan coloured seeds that are attached to the outside of the fruit, most often sweet and rich in flavour but sometimes a bit tart. Now your definition is that it's actually a fruit that's greenish in colour, where it's not cylindrical, more oval from a top view where it does taper to a blunt end on the bottom but not to a point. You also state that it's sour and sometimes bitter.

While both definitions are somewhat accurate, most people are looking at the positives, as well as the average nature of strawberries. Your definition appears to surround unripe strawberries that aren't of average shape or flavour.

It's very much the same logic as the law analogy expressed in my last post. To use an old adage "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater". There are no perfect people or concepts and to discard the concept due to a lack of perfection particularly when focused on the extreme negative elements of the concept, isn't an objective view or logical in nature.

Does that matter, though, that his perspective clashes with your own? Is there anything to learn from this?
 
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Or, you may simply disagree with that definition. There's no harm in that.

Despite what they're saying about the definition. The issue appears to be that they simply don't like the term Helios coined, "generic feminism". If you look at Helios's quote in my previous post above, there's nothing wrong with Helios's definitions. It looks like folks are just battling over usage of a coined term because it doesn't tell us much in the way of definition and "generic feminism" is not commonly said, if at all. Regardless, that's neither here nor there. People coin terms all the time; it's fine. Helios explained what was meant by the term multiple times. They're battling for nothing.
 

rav3n

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Now that I've finished prepping dinner in the kitchen (yes, honestly! :laugh:), I can apply myself for a bit to this discussion.

There's no objectivity in any form of logic. It all ultimately devolves to mutually agreed-upon points of view, based on criteria that are personally pleasing to the individual.
Disagree. Objective logic considers all aspects of the viewed concept or object. Once all aspects are considered, it's no longer rationale that's focused on solely the negative.
Or, you may simply disagree with that definition. There's no harm in that.
Did you notice that not once did I say he wasn't entitled to his view? I recall saying that he was entitled to his view but that his definition was based on rationale, instead of objective logic. And considering how he's been purporting to logic in his rebuttal to a number of members, it's necessary to illustrate his own subjectivity.
Does that matter, though, that his perspective clashes with your own? Is there anything to learn from this?
This is a two-fold issue. The first issue is his rationale, that he believes his views to be objective in nature where they're highly subjective. He's welcome to believe his subjective view but if he wants to improve his world view, he might want to opt out of his subjective reasoning, taking all parts of the whole concept in mind, prior to rejection.

And quite frankly, it's disappointing to see a Ti-dom who's incapable of objective logic.
 

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Despite what they're saying about the definition. The issue appears to be that they simply don't like the term Helios coined, "generic feminism". If you look at Helios's quote in my previous post above, there's nothing wrong with Helios's definitions. It looks like folks are just battling over usage of a coined term because it doesn't tell us much in the way of definition and "generic feminism" is not commonly said, if at all. Regardless, that's neither here nor there. People coin terms all the time; it's fine. Helios explained what was meant by the term multiple times. They're battling for nothing.

No, that's not the issue. The issue is that Helios declared that "generic feminism" is "false" because there are some false propositions that could fit in the {miscellaneous propositions} part of his formula. When it was brought up that not all of the possible variations of propositions that might fit into that container are false (thereby making his claim that, by his own definition, feminism is "false" incorrect), he said that it didn't matter because he couldn't be bothered to recognize or make such distinctions between these propositions. Which is a long-winded, idiotic way of saying that he is either too lazy or too afraid of the associations that people might make if he said that he thought feminism was "correct."
 
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