Just a question raised in the Kavanaugh thread. Thought I'd move the conversation here. Surprisingly, some women think women shouldn't have the right to vote. 88GT has posted that sentiment here. And so has Blonde in the Belly of the Beast (a right-wing female youtube personality.)
I'd like to know if someone can make a rational case for women not voting. Saying they're too emotional is a far too stereotypical rationale.
Of course there are personality differences between men and women. It's just that it's wrong to punish or reward a whole group for no other reason than because some, or many, or most of a group acts a certain way. And that's a sort of problem that Western society has largely solved, that importance of individual attribution is more a valuable principle for determining policy than group attribution.
Another problem Western society has solved is the tendency for violence in men. I'm not saying that all men are violent, or that no women are violent. We're not nomadic bands of rapists. We've ordered our societies such that violence has mostly been eliminated. We haven't figured that out for the tendencies of women.
Yes. Studies confirm what we all experience. Women tend to be more emotional than men, but like the fact that not all men are violent, not all women ruled by emotion. And women do tend to use means other than violence to resolve conflicts. They tend to use shaming, and social pressure. And that's what we're seeing a lot more of today, as women take more and more leadership in society. It's definitely a problem unique to Western society. And it's something that we haven't figured out, to protect society against group shaming like what the #metoo movement has become, like we have with group violence.
Allowing men to vote hasn't increased violence in men. Hopefully allowing women to vote won't increase their ability to harm society by directing groups against individuals and other groups. I's certainly something society needs to figure out. Being afraid to live your life as you see fit, for fear violent people will attack you is debilitating. Being afraid to live your life as you see fit, for fear shame mobs will ruin your life, get you fired, etcetera is a problem yet to be solved.
I'd like to know if someone can make a rational case for women not voting. Saying they're too emotional is a far too stereotypical rationale.
Of course there are personality differences between men and women. It's just that it's wrong to punish or reward a whole group for no other reason than because some, or many, or most of a group acts a certain way. And that's a sort of problem that Western society has largely solved, that importance of individual attribution is more a valuable principle for determining policy than group attribution.
Another problem Western society has solved is the tendency for violence in men. I'm not saying that all men are violent, or that no women are violent. We're not nomadic bands of rapists. We've ordered our societies such that violence has mostly been eliminated. We haven't figured that out for the tendencies of women.
Yes. Studies confirm what we all experience. Women tend to be more emotional than men, but like the fact that not all men are violent, not all women ruled by emotion. And women do tend to use means other than violence to resolve conflicts. They tend to use shaming, and social pressure. And that's what we're seeing a lot more of today, as women take more and more leadership in society. It's definitely a problem unique to Western society. And it's something that we haven't figured out, to protect society against group shaming like what the #metoo movement has become, like we have with group violence.
Allowing men to vote hasn't increased violence in men. Hopefully allowing women to vote won't increase their ability to harm society by directing groups against individuals and other groups. I's certainly something society needs to figure out. Being afraid to live your life as you see fit, for fear violent people will attack you is debilitating. Being afraid to live your life as you see fit, for fear shame mobs will ruin your life, get you fired, etcetera is a problem yet to be solved.
