I completely understand. I am not saying all are mysoginists should be left completely off the hook because some are genuine assholes who are too far gone, like Andrew Tate; but on the one hand, people who are mentally and emotionally vulnerable have been groomed to adopt extreme views. The latter should be helped.
Unless you engage with them in some sort of way, which you don’t want to do in most cases, how do you find out? It’s hard to keep an open mind when encountering such a person and so is giving them the benefit of the doubt. Nowadays, it’s just the easiest explanation to assume they’re just a misogynist
What I mean by giving the benefit of the doubt is not necessarily to engage with them, but to keep at the back of the mind that the person may or may not be a vulnerable individual who had been manipulated. IMHO it is fine to think “this person is an idiot, but there could be something that made the person that way but who knows.”
I can’t afford to give them the benefit of the doubt, because I’m a woman, and for many of them, my existence is anathema.
I completely understand. I am not saying all are mysoginists should be left completely off the hook because some are genuine assholes who are too far gone, like Andrew Tate; but on the one hand, people who are mentally and emotionally vulnerable have been groomed to adopt extreme views. The latter should be helped.
Unless you engage with them in some sort of way, which you don’t want to do in most cases, how do you find out? It’s hard to keep an open mind when encountering such a person and so is giving them the benefit of the doubt. Nowadays, it’s just the easiest explanation to assume they’re just a misogynist
What I mean by giving the benefit of the doubt is not necessarily to engage with them, but to keep at the back of the mind that the person may or may not be a vulnerable individual who had been manipulated. IMHO it is fine to think “this person is an idiot, but there could be something that made the person that way but who knows.”