Bentusi16 said:
I can foresee the argument that they can only want this due to the brainwashing by a male-dominated society, which I feel is rather the larger point; that women only allow themselves to be dominated because they're brainwashed into believing they want that, at least according to the blog.
Why do people always use this "brainwashing" buzzword retort whenever someone implies that many people like something because of society? Particularly when they imply something is caused by society when they don't believe it is causes by society.
It severely underestimates the power of culture and I'm tired of seeing it. In fact I wish I said this sooner because I'm seeing this "brainwashing" word trash thrown around everywhere.
Our personal experiences, much of which are cultural in origin, determine much of all of our values and feelings about things. That's not "brainwashing", that's the reality of our species. Other animals don't have culture. And our culture is a large part of what makes us the human being that we are, whether we accept or deviate from our cultural values. In which case here, feminists are being deviants and rebels based upon personal morals they find in conflict with the majority.
Yes, culture influences us. It influences what toys we want to play with as children, it influences what food we want to eat, it influences what political parties we support, it influences what we want to look like, and it even influences who we want to date and how we want to date them.
That is the reality. Culture is powerful. And sometimes, we need to take a look at things about it which could be better.
If most women, do indeed to be "dominated" or at least initiated upon, the question is, is why. There is always a why and a skeptical mind is always curious. Many evolutionary psychologists believe that is it neurological. And feminists tend to combat this belief with the only actual logical alternative, that it is cultural.
Because sadly much of evolutionary psychological claims, are neurosexist claims that male supremacy is biological, neurological. And allows people to erroneously believe the unequal status quo biological fact and deviating from that is a waste of time.
Norms have to come from somewhere. They aren't unexplainable random occurrences. They come from somewhere. And it is the feminist position, and my position, that they are cultural, not biological.
