Here is a Handy Tip for You
In case of need, here is one way that you can be a so-called "misogynist" while flying completely underneath their radar. First, compose a mental list of traits and behaviors which, to your mind, encompass what is quintessentially annoying (or a least salient) about women. Then, discuss some or all of these items elliptically, as abstract data points, without ever naming women in the same context. In this way, you can satisfy your need to vent about women without manifestly doing so at all. As a bonus, this very same method may be applied to target objects other than women.
Call this technique abstractification. Remember that you can also abstractify your abstraction points, and abstractify those abstractifications still further, until you are clear out into the Milky Way somewhere. You will be weaving your words around the target object, never naming the object itself yet leaving a vaguely felt conversational "hole" in the conceptual shape of the object.
People do such things all the time in the real world, but for the most part they are unconscious of it. Your mission is to be fully conscious of it, and hone it to an art form even while you are treating it as a intellectual sport. Experiment, practice, and have fun with this, chums! ;-)
Call this technique abstractification. Remember that you can also abstractify your abstraction points, and abstractify those abstractifications still further, until you are clear out into the Milky Way somewhere. You will be weaving your words around the target object, never naming the object itself yet leaving a vaguely felt conversational "hole" in the conceptual shape of the object.
People do such things all the time in the real world, but for the most part they are unconscious of it. Your mission is to be fully conscious of it, and hone it to an art form even while you are treating it as a intellectual sport. Experiment, practice, and have fun with this, chums! ;-)
posted by Fidelbogen at 11:58 PM
2 Comments:
"First, compose a mental list of traits and behaviors which, to your mind, encompass what is quintessentially annoying (or a least salient) about women. Then, discuss some or all of these items elliptically, as abstract data points, without ever naming women in the same context."
I see what you're saying. Feels a bit feminist-ey,but good advice nonetheless. My guess is that by giving them an "out",even a feminist would agree that some of the behaviors are annoying, but if just one woman is specifically called out, they will immediately say that it's the most vile and extreme form of hate speech and demand an apology to all women everywhere,no doubt while making generalizations about what 'pigs' "all men are".
I was chatting to a Polynesian from Tuvalu quite a few years ago and he told me that it was expected behaviour. In fact to come straight to the point was and insult because that was a way of telling the listener that they were too stupid to get it.
In Australia it's called "beating around the bush".
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