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[Warren DeMontague]

287. Actually, the vast majority of people DON'T agree with you.

They don't think there's anything wrong with beauty- male beauty, female beauty... nor do they think it's "dehumanizing" (much less "objectifying", not that that bs psychobabble term actually means anything) for a woman to choose to participate in one of these contests.

See, words -and terms- mean things, and part of the perpetual outrage on the part of the perpetual outrage crowd is that despite an endless series of lectures, re-education, and "consciousness raising" attempts, we DON'T all agree on the use, meaning, or appropriateness of the terms.

like, "constant misogyny"... well, shit, that sounds bad, doesn't it? How is it that here I'm supposed to be in the position of defending "constant misogyny", now? I don't want to defend that. Because "misogyny" means hatred of women. And there is hatred of women here... isn't there?

Wait, I'll look for it.

Oh, NOW I think I know what the problem is. You've decided, arbitrarily, that a woman participating in a beauty contest, and other people noting how attractive she is, constitutes "hatred" of her, and in fact of all women.


Except, it doesn't.