03-17-2017, 03:37 AM
(03-16-2017, 12:30 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I have a thought experiment.
Pretend you just found out about the Law of One. You've been feeling extremely alone with your new revelations, so you were googling and suddenly you found this community. Jackpot, right? So you start reading the forums and you notice that the majority of the regular posters (90%+) are female. That's cool, so far everyone seems cool, save for a couple extremists that are a bit off-putting. Then you find a thread titled "Caretaking and Gender" and you open the thread, and you see a discussion between the females about why there aren't more male posters on the forum. The OP states how over 92% of nurses are females, and the conversation falls to how females are just better at and more versed in caring for other people, and they also are more in tune with their emotions, so this is probably why the Law of One's service to others philosophy caters more towards the female demographic. But, at least the men who do post on the forums are well beyond the capabilities of the average man.
If you were a male, would you feel welcomed as a new poster? Would you feel less lonely? Do you think this type of posting would further their goal in attempting to balance the gender gap that is occurring, or do you think it might just be helping reinforce the echo chamber?
Welcomed yes.
Less lonely, highly doubt it.
I don't know what constitutes an echo chamber but I wouldn't call any communitty such unless it didn't allow certain views to be expressed in favor of the comfort of the majority.
I also am biased in these questions as I do find on average that women are more empathetic towards me than men and that they typically would be more thoughtful about another's well being than a typical man
All typicals.
Bring4th is not your typical forum. People talk of everything from conspiracy to literature to health to spiriruality to sex to politics to art to technology to science to psychology, even porn, fetishes, rape, abuse, racism and sexism, if this place is an echo chamber then we are a very broad series of subjects and genres of echoes.
I see your point though that such an opinion is still hurtful and degrading to a woman in a typical generalisation of all women are lesser than the forum poster on the forum.
I think I've discovered just how...deeply ingrained and just how severe, intricate, and slyly the typical male has been skewed to view a female to be unequal.
While we consciously believe it, we subconsciously seem to not have fully come to appreciate this.
The constant reinforcement that a woman needs this or is that doesn't help either. The sly exposure of a severe lack of female protagonists in media and literature but a higher commonality of a female antagonist doesn't help. A continual campaign in advertising towards female and consumerism against women doesn't help. I don't recall seeing many cleaning or cooking programs performed by men, as if to say that is what a women is supposed to do...
Then the bombardment of children programming at young ages. Barbie dolls made unproportionately to real anatomy to skew an idea of attractive, the same is done to action figures for boys. Dora the Explorer even got a visual redo to be more feminine by american standards which mostly included giving her longer hair and a more colorful palette for her character design, more curves to her design.
This is almost basically a culture wide psychic war against an equal view of women.
Its saturated in all of us, and though some have better defenses this community proved that even open-minded critical thinking people who study philosophy and spirituality are not immune to their perceptions and ideas being gently warped to push separation by societal structures like the media or the news or advertising...
Thank you for the thought project, Jade. Its remindes me of something I did not want to believe...Just how badly of an uphill battle women have been shafted with, and anyone, possibly everyone, is potentially an agent of separation against women, and they may never even notice or realize it.
An extremely scary thought... What can be done? How can anyone, man or woman, fight what's been subconsciousy programmed into them over the years? How do they stop it from continuing? What can be done to end these movements of separation on a mass scale?