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Comment by hi-v-rocknroll | Hacker News Reader

This belongs to a category of rabbit holes of the human condition that are entirely pointless to argue or worry about.

While I agree to some extent, it's good to have a discussion on this from time to time as it's an important social topic. Especially when young girls became acquainted with history of women's rights and so on, they immediately tend to become convinced that men are the source of all evil. Some spit it out explicitly, some just hide that feeling in their hearts and go through lives like this.

For this reason, it's worth remembering that the source of these problems for women and men is the same, even though effects differ.

(1) For individual asault cases, these are violent people, almost always men, who choose men and women as their victims. (2) For systemic issues, it is the law. (3) For cultural issues (e.g expectations that men should "take care of the family" while women should take care of children/older family problems) this is the society with its prejudices.

And while we can't do much about (1), there is a lot to be done for (2) and (3), and an honest and civilized discussion rather than flagging all posts on the subject is a part of it.

Worrying about dying by meteor impact is a waste of life because you can't do anything about it, and so is this. Internal locus of control has boundaries of what is and is not worth worrying about. And this clearly isn't except for other people tend to be fixated on victimhood/oppression Olympics, tend to be unreasonable, and disinterested in accomplishing anything of positive social change.

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