For anyone who actually believes in gender and sexual equality, patriarchy is clearly a major obstacle. How can a college educated person not understand this? I’m all for self-defense; it’s why I haven’t been raped, but what they’re afraid of is being beaten up by a man, and what women are afraid of is being beaten up and/or raped by a man.
And, dear Gawd, the projection onto human history— “…hundreds of thousands of years of hominid evolution, during which it really was damaging to suffer a slight to your honor.”
Really? Is this why women have evolved to crush the rapist’s skull with a rock while they sleep?
Oh. They haven’t. Guess women don’t care about their honor, then.
““The psychological forces here—honor and shame—are very captivating… If a man wants to reliably avoid violence in bars, soccer stadiums, and so forth, he has to somehow scrub this programming from the hard drive.”
Poor thing. I’m all for learning self-defense, but perhaps he should be challenging patriarchy and men who use violence to “defend” them from “honor” and the “shame” of losing a fight.
May 3rd, 2015 at 5:40PM
I read the interview, and learned something.
May 3rd, 2015 at 5:40PM
UD: Your reaction?
May 3rd, 2015 at 6:36PM
For anyone who actually believes in gender and sexual equality, patriarchy is clearly a major obstacle. How can a college educated person not understand this? I’m all for self-defense; it’s why I haven’t been raped, but what they’re afraid of is being beaten up by a man, and what women are afraid of is being beaten up and/or raped by a man.
And, dear Gawd, the projection onto human history— “…hundreds of thousands of years of hominid evolution, during which it really was damaging to suffer a slight to your honor.”
Really? Is this why women have evolved to crush the rapist’s skull with a rock while they sleep?
Oh. They haven’t. Guess women don’t care about their honor, then.
““The psychological forces here—honor and shame—are very captivating… If a man wants to reliably avoid violence in bars, soccer stadiums, and so forth, he has to somehow scrub this programming from the hard drive.”
Poor thing. I’m all for learning self-defense, but perhaps he should be challenging patriarchy and men who use violence to “defend” them from “honor” and the “shame” of losing a fight.
Bites knuckles— the horror, the horror.
May 4th, 2015 at 10:03AM
Summarize in one sentence the self-beclownment of the humanities.