Dilbert Creator discussing gender issues. He's had some pretty spot on comics in the past, too

ctlawguy · 2015-03-16T01:32:05+00:00

I think he says a lot of good things:

One thing that jumped out at me was when he said that when men are assholes to each other, it is seen as that, but when men are assholes to women, it's seen as sexism.

This is a result of "confirmation bias": the tendency to see evidence and interpret things in a way that confirms our preexisting beliefs.

If I already believe men are sexist against women, I'm more likely to interpret any negative action towards women as sexism, and I won't seek to exclude other possible explanations. And I certainly won't notice that it also happens to men, and that this by definition means that it is NOT sexism.

Another example of this was a story on HuffPo about the U of Oklahoma SAE students who were singing a racist song. The author was speaking about ONE of the students who later claimed that he was not a racist. She scoffed and stated that there was no way he could have been singing that song if he wasn't racist. (In typical fashion, no further evidence was given).

No consideration was given to the fact that he could have been singing it:

To fit in, despite not agreeing with or even hating the message of the song,
To avoid negative consequences from his fraternity brothers if he did not sing it,
Because he didn't think about what he was singing due to intoxication or whatever reason, or
Simply to be obnoxious or shocking.

Now he very much could be a secret dyed-in-the-wool racist, but the author didn't make any attempt to exclude these other possibilities.

This is because there are few people SJWs (especially academic ones) hate more than fraternity brothers. They think they are racist, sexist, classiest, every "-ist" you can imagine. So any phenomenon involving fraternity brothers will likely be interpreted in a way consistent with these beliefs.

Title	Dilbert Creator discussing gender issues. He's had some pretty spot on comics in the past, too
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Date	March 15, 2015 11:21 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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