The difference between equality and entitlement when discussing women being judged on their appearance (reposted because the previous version contained a serious typo)

kundertaker · 2013-09-24T21:25:55+00:00

This would be great except for one problem. EVERY ONE IS JUDGED BY THEIR APPEARANCE!

Alzael · 2013-09-25T02:01:02+00:00

Whoever said that about equality is quite clearly confused on what that word actually means.

There is nothing unequal about judging a person solely on person appearance. There's also nothing wrong with doing so. We can only judge people based on the information that we have to go with. This is not an RPG game where you can just look at everyones stats the instant you encounter them and know everything about them. Humans do not come with character sheets strapped to their chests. An average human will come across approximately 60,000 other people in the course of only one year. Even if you did nothing else with your life you could never meet this standard of learning about a persons intelligence and personality before you judge them.

More to the point, a persons appearance can and does often reflect information about them. Yes, appearances deceive, but so do the other two as well. Just because you know someones level of intelligence does not mean they won't do stupid things, and knowing a persons personality does not mean that they will always behave that way.

Appearance is a perfectly valid way of gaining information to form a judgement. Like any kind of information though, it's better to have multiple sources. But there is nothing inherently wrong with appearance.

Title	The difference between equality and entitlement when discussing women being judged on their appearance (reposted because the previous version contained a serious typo)
Author	[deleted]
Upvotes	22
Comments	3
Date	September 24, 2013 8:40 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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