(October 10, 2012 at 12:44 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: It's easier to exploit the negative though - we've seen this throughout history. To claim another man or woman as your friend/father/mother/sister/brother is to force people to empathize with others, and we are a selfish creature.
Negativity sells. It sells possibly more than sex. Negativity about sex sells best of all.
Unfortunately, I can agree with that.
Even if their rhetoric was so exclusively negative, it would be acceptable (to me) if it was negative towards both sexes. Nope; criticize men's sexuality and it's good social commentary. Criticize women's sexuality and it's misogyny.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
