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Kelly
Kelly

1y

ENFP

Frustrating reading philosophy and seeing the attitudes about women

It's tough as I'm reading philosophical texts (Plato's Republic, Tao Te Ching, Bible, etc.) by supposedly the wisest thinkers, yet they say things that show disdain (or worse) towards women. I understand it was a different time. But it's harder to respect someone's thinking when they keep reminding me they view women as lowly. Anyone else relate? (edited)

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Jamie
Jamie

1y

ENFP

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Its really hard to watch, learn, participate in a lot of things when you see them with open eyes and understand the underlying context. I never watched it but my 13yo started watching Modern Family. This is a very mysoginistic show and it won so many awards. I am cringing all the time in some of these things in the both the background and foreground of my life

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Dylan
Dylan

1y

INFP

Gemini

One of the great disappointments of looking at people in history is seeing how most of them were awful people.

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evelyn ✨
evelyn ✨

1y

INFP

Libra

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Yessssssssss. I recommend How To Be Perfect by Michael Schur, creator of The Good Place. He talks about the basic philosophies of Plato, Kant, etc., but selects genders randomly. He says he specifically does it because the greats were so annoyingly male-centric. It's really nice!

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