A common criticism of radical feminism’s attempt to define women as a monolithic (and often biological) class is that it often relies on making essentialist arguments about all women, commonly focusing around a shared experience of being able to give birth which inherently negates all women who’re infertile; i.e. “forgetting about people who can’t breed”.
The joke’s merely that – in this scenario – you’re forgetting infertile people in your premise just as (for very different reasons, of course) TERFs forget infertile people in their premise.
I think you’re interpreting it as me saying you’re a TERF or hold their beliefs but that’s not the joke; it’s more just a poke at the major flaw in TERF ideology.
(I understand that you don’t feel like you’re forgetting infertile people, at all, in your claim but the joke isn’t actually about whether your argument is correct or not and, further, I expect that’s not the part that’s causing you the primary concern, right now)
People have sex because they have an instinct to breed, regardless of if they are fertile or if they can actually breed with who they are attracted to. Everything beyond that is rationalization and abstraction, which is why calling it a “breeding fetish” is absurd. It’s taking rationalization full circle to a comical degree. It’s like intellectualizing the reasons for drinking water or eating food.
Like I said, I understand that you feel your argument doesn’t forget infertile people but my joke has no bearing on whether your reasoning is or isn’t correct (as it was a response to the other commenter’s assertion) and I wanted to reassure you since it seemed you were alarmed.
We can have a discussion about your original argument, if you wanted, but my joke wasn’t taking a side on it, either way.
A common criticism of radical feminism’s attempt to define women as a monolithic (and often biological) class is that it often relies on making essentialist arguments about all women, commonly focusing around a shared experience of being able to give birth which inherently negates all women who’re infertile; i.e. “forgetting about people who can’t breed”.
The joke’s merely that – in this scenario – you’re forgetting infertile people in your premise just as (for very different reasons, of course) TERFs forget infertile people in their premise.
I think you’re interpreting it as me saying you’re a TERF or hold their beliefs but that’s not the joke; it’s more just a poke at the major flaw in TERF ideology.
(I understand that you don’t feel like you’re forgetting infertile people, at all, in your claim but the joke isn’t actually about whether your argument is correct or not and, further, I expect that’s not the part that’s causing you the primary concern, right now)
People have sex because they have an instinct to breed, regardless of if they are fertile or if they can actually breed with who they are attracted to. Everything beyond that is rationalization and abstraction, which is why calling it a “breeding fetish” is absurd. It’s taking rationalization full circle to a comical degree. It’s like intellectualizing the reasons for drinking water or eating food.
Like I said, I understand that you feel your argument doesn’t forget infertile people but my joke has no bearing on whether your reasoning is or isn’t correct (as it was a response to the other commenter’s assertion) and I wanted to reassure you since it seemed you were alarmed.
We can have a discussion about your original argument, if you wanted, but my joke wasn’t taking a side on it, either way.