RE: I Used To Be A Fan But I Am Now Shocked, Disgusted And Appalled With Sam Harris
July 21, 2017 at 6:51 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2017 at 6:53 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(July 21, 2017 at 5:17 pm)*Deidre* Wrote:(July 21, 2017 at 5:10 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Jesus please us. Someone needs to tell him that generalizations are not a sound basis for rational thought. I don't tend to get into fistfights with strangers after an escalating series of insults.
He wrote in the article you linked:
Quote:Violence is different for women than it is for men. Unlike men, they don’t tend to get into fistfights with strangers after an escalating series of insults.
I don't have that tendency he ascribes to men. If it comes to insults at all, of course. While it may well be true that men on the whole fight more often than women, and it's certainly true that when physically attacked I have no qualms about striking back, the notion that men tend to fistfighting after insults is a shopworn stereotype -- a generalization, and a false one, at that -- in my view.
