Mostly just soliciting some thoughts on this, I'll get the obvious out of the way - don't waste time arguing with women.

That said, when you do get into a debate (often it's on reddit, you don't know if women will reply or not until they do), at least when I'm in a debate, and people are misunderstanding something, I always use analogies. In fact, I find it really hard not to use them.

Many people learn how to debate at school, something which I didn't learn, so perhaps they can advise me on what thoughts are about analogies.

The problem is women seem to just be incapable of understanding them. I can't tell if it's wilful or through ignorance.

An example would be, if a woman says, "I've met a few bad men, why are men so shitty."

Such a generalisation based on a few experiences tarring all men, is obviously flawed and ignorant.

So to argue against such a thing, I would probably say you can't treat a whole gender of people based on your experiences.

If they fail to grasp it, or argue back, I would turn the tables, and say "Imagine if I said whenever I meet a woman, she seems so shallow. Why are all women shallow? Surely you can see how it's wrong for me to judge all women like that, based on a few experiences".

To me, that is a solid point to prove generalisation is bad, the first answer explains it rationally, the second creates an emotional explanation for the behaviour that they can relate to.

However, the response is always something like "You can't compare shallow women to men being shitty, those things aren't even the same, no-one gets hurt by people being shallow".

It's like the pigeon shitting all over the board and strutting around victoriously.

I'd be curious if other people find this, that women don't seem to understand analogies. Perhaps there is a better way to engage with people in general than an over-reliance on analogies.

Sorta curious to hear any thoughts on this, outside of the expected women are stupid response.

Couldn't think of another sub to post it.