Comment by CryptoPunk
4 years ago
I think what's possibly needed is a return to a more traditional relationship and dating culture.
In the past, if a man had a dalliance with with a woman and she got pregnant, he was expected to marry her.
Now we expect women to have to be responsible for their own decisions the way men are, but women are generally more emotionally vulnerable than men, due to their more compassionate and less aggressive personalities, and are more easily manipulated as a result.
Therefore it may be up to men to not abuse that.
This was the assumption in place in the past, which is why young women often had chaperones present during close interactions with men, and why the 'marriage if pregnancy' responsibility was placed on men.
We've tried the 'rawr girl power, women can do everything men can do' culture, and the result is scores of women being used and taken advantage of because they were not capable, emotionally/temperamentally, to be their own advocate in sex and dating interactions.
Women are not more compassionate than men, that's false. Women have an instinct to take care of children (as do men), but this does not extend to society at large.
Women score higher on agreeableness:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreeableness
That's a deeply misogynistic take. What do you base this on?
How is it misogynistic?
I base it on the prevalence of stories like this, where a woman ostensibly consents to sexual advances and later regrets it and feels she had be abused.
The issue is not consent. The issue is vulnerability. Women are generally more vulnerable to advances from men and more likely to consent to an interaction when it's not in their best interest, than men would be, due to well documented physiological and psychological differences between the sexes.
It essentially assumes incompetence on the part of women. That's not the only possible explanation.
I don't even think it's the most plausible explanation. Social pressure and upbringing are large factors in human behavior and it takes time to make society-wide changes.
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> I base it on the prevalence of stories like this
So you've just pulled it out of thin air. What I figured. It's just victim blaming through misogynistic prejudices.
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