Uhhhh dude, I did not call you sexist. You do have a track record for throwing the sexist label at other people though.
Sexual Abuse in Hollywood
I miss RIFA.
That was some highly entertaining neckbeardism.
That was some highly entertaining neckbeardism.
It's absurd that a woman could be sexist towards a man or it's absurd that you may have said that?
Because if it's the former, that's sexist.
Because if it's the former, that's sexist.
So you're saying it's absurd you would have said that because you believe calling a man sexist is okay but calling a woman sexist is absurd?
He's called me sexist before and I'm a woman soooooooooo uh yeah
It can't be your only excuse at a modern trial, from a legal point of view, that's for sure. But at any given time in history, MOST people in any society have been doing what was deemed normal in that particular society. There were those who could see beyond the norms of their times, and these people were game-changers (and a lot of times they were either imprisoned, executed or in very rare cases became leaders of societal change).Master Virgo wrote: ↑December 1st, 2018, 1:54 pmSociety's moral compass is broken. If you can't see beyond its bullshit norms and misguided conceptions of what is right or wrong at a given time and use your conscience and common sense, then you only have your own ignorance and laziness to blame for it.
You do not deserve the slightest amount of sympathy if your only excuse is that you were doing what everybody else believed to be ethically acceptable or simply venial.£
It would be foolish to accuse a person in the 1500s for being short-sighted and sticking to the norms of their time. The further you go in the past, the less it makes sense to accuse anyone of not being able to see past their own social circles. Right now we are in the middle of a change in the Zeitgest, as Richard Dawkins put it, as more and more people get annoyed by how women are treated in mainstream media and in their own everyday environments. We are right in the middle of this change, I think.
And I do believe that a lot of people who do things that I, personally, deem terrible, honestly think that they are simply doing something they thought was normal. I'm not talking about rape (no one would think that was normal, right?), but about the slightest little conversational or physical things you can do when meeting a woman. I overhear tons of cringe-inducing conversations between men and women where parties are on a different side of the above mentioned change. Those men really don't realise that they are doing anything awkward or bad, they honestly think that what they are doing (inappropriate physical contact, awkward jokes) is normal, because it has been normal, for them at least, in the past years and decades.
So, once again, from a legal point of view, it can't be your only defense that you were merely doing what you thought was normal, based on the society you're living in. Sadly, it can still be the truth: a lot of people are on the "old side" of this change, and to them, all of those awkward, bad and sometimes even evil things and deeds are indeed normal.