[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]SLAINGE wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]SLAINGE wrote:
Watch this double standard in action
Seeing the stronger person being bullied amuses people for some reason.[/quote]
For sure, but why?
Is it a social construct or something deeper, like some primal instinct to find this sort of thing funny / ridiculous / unbelievable in fact? The (physically) stronger person getting shat on by a weaker person, kinda goes against how things ought to be in the wild. Women and men alike having a great laugh at this man’s expense.
Mind you I would probably be laughing as well, brainwashed to think that he must have done something wrong, like cheated to deserve that. Yet he was being physically abused by some psychotic cunt but we’re blinded by the assumption that women are always the victim. I hate double standards.
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I can’t give a concrete answer as I don’t know. In social hierarchies among wild animals, dominance is determined either through social behavior in some groups and physical stature and strength in others. Humans are unique in that their roles are dynamic. From here, culture is critical. Some communities being more towards the physical and others being more towards the social; however, the physical elements themselves can reinforce the social elements given the right feedback.
Since we now have infrastructure that reduces the need for the physical elements, there seems to be a lot less balance between the physical and social elements. People are taught to subvert physical dominance, which also subverts social elements indirectly. So when someone overcomes another individual with implied physical dominance through social dominance, that triggers a certain reward. Women abuses man: “All is in order. My beliefs are correct.” Man abuses woman: “This defies the order of the things. My beliefs are being challenged.” I don’t know. Just talking out of my ass.
A lot of it falls within sociobiological parameters. It’s just been groomed to become more of a binary manner than a spectral one. The media has influence. Parents have influence. Given how recent the phenomenon is, it is clear that it has been manufactured. The question is just how much.[/quote]
Nice response! One thing that has struck me is how prevalent these double standard situations are and how they are ingrained in the psyche of so many people. You would imagine that different countries / cultures would have differing opinions on shit like this but with the internet, TV, media etc. we are becoming more and more alike in our thought processes and accepting of things, that when you sit down and think about it, are downright wrong.
That Bill Burr bit was brilliant. You could sense the unease in the room when he challenged a strong held belief about a certain situation and then blew it out of the water with logic. Then again logic isn’t a strong point of most people today esp. those who are spoon fed their opinions. Youtube comments are a prime example of this, the sheeple that are herding enmass on topics with the most ridiculous statements ever, the movie Idiocracy comes to mind…now I am talking outa me hole, better stop and do some work…
I have more hate running through my veins for people in general and there are so many I’d love to beat even unprovoked. Just them existing is enough. And in the worst sense when fully provoked. Ie have been spit on I still think about the consequences possible and the risk isn’t worth the reward to me. Now endanger my life of someone I care about and I love to tear someone apart.
