Wow. I have to say I am simply stunned.
I usually assume that people participating in an immorality website are quite progressive in their ideas, but these demonstrates the most backward odd thinking set of statements I've come across.
Perhaps because immortalism is a fringe idea it attracts those who were on the social fringe in their youth? I'm a little concerned about the future of our cause (socially, not scientifically) if this is generally prevalent. I seem to recall another thread asking why women are so underrepresented on sites such as this and methinks I have discovered the reason.
I implore those who hold these views to reconsider them carefully and rationally. (For those who've seen Kung Pow: 'I implore you to reconsider.' '... O-K!' )
Traclo,
Perhaps the people posting here are self-selected and thus not a relevant sample set for the immortalist movement.
On the other hand, while I would consider myself pretty progressive (hence the name), I'm a guy and can definitely relate to most of those statements... except the 2nd one... I think human bodies in general are pretty poorly designed and constantly decaying edifices.
I think it is something people don't talk about openly much. Political correctness is a superstructure of capitalism, but I think it is a rather amicable one all things considered. Sorry for breaching it by agreeing with the insensitive clods
Another un-politically-correct complicating factor is that most of the males on this forum are likely of at least higher than average intelligence, and statistical evidence from various IQ tests seems to indicate that men have higher variability in intelligence, and thus tend to outnumber women on both the low end and high end of the spectrum of intelligence.
http://en.wikipedia....#Variance_in_IQTherefore, an intelligent male seeking an intelligent female will be met with far more difficulty considering the relative scarcity of females on the high end. This is why I would advise males not to place too much emphasis on intelligence.
When it comes to women you can have
Beauty
Intelligence
Sanity
Pick any two.
Thus, intelligence is basically the last thing I look for in a mate when my head is screwed on properly. (I have to remind myself not to seek them out)
I think it is those precious few intelligent and beautiful women that get men's hopes up only to crush them by their unavailability or insanity, and thus contribute to the allegedly misogynistic attitudes you see claiming the majority of women to be "banal," "crazy," or whatever.
Another fact is that capitalism is absolutely not a meritocracy, and it has been argued even by capitalists like Hayek that this is one of the things which makes it livable. If it were a meritocracy, we would feel much more resentment to wealthier people, since it would mean we'd have to admit that we are truly inferior to them.
Since capitalism is not a meritocracy, the highest quality women can be gobbled up by the wealthiest men, who might not have much of anything else going for them... think of all the scam artists, self-help gurus, hack musicians, trust fund kids, etc. This further narrows the pool of desirable women from the perspective of many imminsters (disproportionately non-rich males of above average intelligence).
Finally, alpha males like Tiger Woods tend to take more than their share of women, whereas females don't engage in that behavior to the same degree.
Perhaps the only saving grace is that women make up 51 percent of the population.... yipee... /sarcasm
Edited by progressive, 19 December 2009 - 01:00 PM.