https://open.substack.com/pub/saraszalmd/p/the-female-body-was-not-designed

Heterosexual men report orgasm during partnered sex 95 percent of the time. Heterosexual women: 65 percent. Lesbian women: 86 percent, a rate comparable to heterosexual men. A 2024 scoping review of the full body of evidence concluded that the orgasm gap is largely driven by social dynamics rather than biological mechanisms.

Interesting to witness societal decay in real time.

It’s amazing how popular this ancient philosophical metaphysical perspective is. Even Stephen Colbert, a devout Catholic, responded with a similar concept when asked in his questionnaire what happens when we die?

Moksha (Hinduism), Nirvana (Buddhism), returning to the Tao (Taoism), Neoplatonism (ancient Greece), Fanaa (Sufism/Mystical Islam) - over millenia, so many traditions have been captivated by the idea of rejoining with “the One”.

Within Hinduism is the nonthestic framework promoted by Adi Shankara known as Advaita Vedanta which is Sanskrit for nonduality. This takes the concept even further, positing that we are one eternally and that individuality / self are spiritual Maya or illusion.

It’s amazing how popular this ancient philosophical metaphysical perspective is. Even Stephen Colbert, a devout Catholic, in his final episode responded with a similar concept when asked in his questionnaire what happens when we die?

Moksha (Hinduism), Nirvana (Buddhism), returning to the Tao (Taoism), Neoplatonism (ancient Greece), Fanaa (Sufism/Mystical Islam) - over millenia, so many traditions have been captivated by the idea of rejoining with “the One”.

Within Hinduism is the nonthestic framework promoted by Adi Shankara known as Advaita Vedanta which is Sanskrit for nonduality. This takes the concept even further, positing that we are one eternally and that individuality / self are spiritual Maya or illusion.

Meditation but it would take a while to get there. It is fun to work towards it though.

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Nazism is not a culture, it’s a political ideology that seeks to drag us back into the stone age.

No political ideology “deserves” to exist.

We hold individuals accountable for their actions according to the rule of law. That applies to everyone including them.

It’s easy to fall for reductive dualisms as youve presented.

I stand for upholding the rule of law and inalienable human rights and do not accept Nazi / genocidal rhetoric.

Feel free to criticize these specific people as everyone absolutely should. But if you’re going to say a culture doesn’t “deserve to exist” because you think it “spawned” them, you better be able to name that culture so we know where your true intentions lie.

The abstraction is intentional because you know if you were specific your position becomes indefensible.

Oh you’re back. Theres not much more to say except that I wish you luck on your journey to human decency, if thats the path you decide to choose.

He did though, which is why his comment was removed. Saying a culture “doesn’t deserve to exist” is neo Nazi rhetoric. He’s free to criticize these specific people, advocating for ethnic cleansing is indefensible though. Of course when asked to define the culture he deemed unworthy of existence, he made a run for it.

Hey I made a fascist run away today, not bad.

Ok let’s be precise with our language. What culture are you referring to? Do you have a name for it?

It simply is indistinguishable from fascism because ultimately the fascists decided which cultures were problematic, who was a part of them and therefore who “deserved” to be exterminated.

Your criticism alone isn’t what likens your view to fascism, its the language you chose, which implies a disregard for inalienable human rights that does.

Do you, the one who apparently decides which cultures are worthy and which are not, get to decide how a culture is defined and who is a part of it?

Who is a part of it in this case? Who would you like to erase? People that look like them, speak like them, worship like them?

We punish individuals for their actions according to the rule of law.

You may want to go back to a time when we judge individuals based on the actions of those we perceive to be similar to them. I do not.

I don’t know which culture youve come from to arrive at this worldview, but as problematic and regressive as it is, I still acknowledge your personhood / humanity. I seek not to erase it (despite its flaws) nor do I deem you or anyone “spawned” from it to be unworthy of existance. People, communities and cultures are often indiscrete and in a constant state of adaptation. This type of rhetoric belongs in an era that should be left behind.

Yours is the language that seeks to enable genocide. It normalizes the idea of punishing the many for the actions of the few based on vague, perceived similarities. Criticize all you want but be mindful of the words you choose.

The framing of whether a culture “deserves” to exist was a justification to pursue the extermination of Jewish and Roma people in fascist Germany, as one example. From that and other similar acts of destruction in the name of cleansing or purity came a new world order with the concept of inalienable human rights.

When you speak on the erasure of a culture, which is often an abstract set of ideas around which clear boundaries can rarely be drawn, you justify a collective punishment that is antithetical to this foundational idea.

Individuals should be held accountable for their actions according to the rule of law.

Saying that a culture doesn’t deserve to exist undermines the idea of inalienable human rights, normalizes ethnic cleansing and ultimately takes us back to a much darker period of human history.

I may not have lived through world war 2, but I am not keen on unlearning the lessons that were learned from it.

Yeah it’s easy to think that but I’d be wary of embracing that level of extremism. Colonial powers used similar arguments to justify the extermination of peoples around the world for centuries ie. “the civilizing mission”. Your framing is also indistinguishable from core frameworks within facism.

I agree with your anger but not with your worldview. People and cultures adapt over time, and I’d sooner do what I can to influence change in a culture for the better, before questioning whether one “deserves” human rights. But… that’s just my culture. Let’s hope it deserves to exist 🤞.

Evolutionary psychology and anthropology do not support this conceptualization. Hunter gatherer societies were egalitarian and survived on cooperation. If one member was violent and/or seen as relatively unpredictable they were simply left behind (ostracized) or killed by the rest of the tribe (capital punishment).

In fact, some evolutionary biologists believe this collective culling of highly aggressive individuals over tens of thousands of years actually self-domesticated humans, making our species naturally more cooperative and less prone to random internal violence.

This is what anthropologists refer to as a reverse dominance hierarchy ie. the individual attempting to dominate would be culled while the cooperative collective was the truly dominant force. It’s, in a way, a precivilizational form of democracy.

One has to wonder if we’ve forgotten these ancient corrective mechanisms.

Wow this post made me so grateful for the women in my life (for not being this way).

This is much more cultural than it is biological. Protection doesn’t equate to violence outside of the extreme circumstances.

I would argue racism against south Asians is fairly normalized also as there have been targetted hate campaigns online which spill over into the real world. It goes back to the model minority myth and both not being a traditionally disenfranchised group.

The Bengal famine was not even the largest British engineered famine in India.

Britain has a borderline unfixable economy - according to expert economists - and is about to put the final nail in the coffin by electing Reform so perhaps what goes around comes around.

Looking at recent history, some have more than others and have the riches to show for the destruction they engaged in.