Peter Coates
1 min readJan 9, 2025

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This kind of illiberal lumping together of half of humanity as having one nature is very destructive as well as nonsensical. Put the shoe on the other foot. Would you think it was unreasonable for a man to write the same kind of article about women? Or a white person to write the same kind of article about Black people, or whomever? How would it read if a man wrote an article preaching 100 cliches about "female" behavior and who they "really" are? What would you think about such an article. The only defense you have is to claim that it's true, that men really are awful and women are just great. And what would you think if such an article about women's moral failure was filled with unpleasant remarks about women being a hundred pounds too fat, have bad hair, and are dirty? Kinda tells you where it's really coming from psychologically, doesn't it. This kind of evil nonsense is a creature of the Internet, which gives every kind of primitive hostility a forum. It elevates jackasses on every side, and creates fertile new fields for jackasses to populate. DJT, radical feminism, Andrew Tate, etc. It's all the same partisan fomenting of hate for clicks.

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Peter Coates
Peter Coates

Written by Peter Coates

I was an artist until my thirties when I discovered computers and jumped ship for a few decades. Now I'm back to it. You can probably find some on instagram.

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