Argumentative Penguin
2 min readJun 8, 2022

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I have a hunch you may process information differently from other people. And I think you've made an error in logic here.

Do you believe all men are dumb or akin to dogs? I'm guessing not. You're not. There are other men who aren't too. Sometimes when women tried to say a pattern of behaviour in some men was the same as in all men, some men got offended as they weren't being abusive and dumb. Then those men were also made out to be part of the problem. Then it got very messy....

Quite often when someone says 'women do this...' or 'men do this...' they're talking generally and they don't mean 'all men' or 'all women' - and they think everyone understands this. You got frustrated because you were looking for a pattern and someone kept popping up to dismiss your idea - but they also reinforced your idea too.

The problem is, when you do say 'I mean ALL men, or ALL women' then people will ignore you. That's because there are 3.5 billion women in the world, including your Mum, grandma, school teachers, sisters, cousins etc. They believe your logic is so faulty that there's no point engaging with you. The most they will do is argue with you, which just reinforces your view that you're already right.

I'm not going to argue with you - you can believe all women are terrible humans if you want. There are women who believe ALL men are terrible humans... but it's not the best way to be a happy person. A happy person sees everybody as a complicated mix of good and bad that isn't easily sorted out.

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Argumentative Penguin
Argumentative Penguin

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