/lit/ - Literature

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>When Jordan Peterson says women wear lipstick to mimic the color of a vagina, that angers people, because while it might have had that function, now it serves other functions, and simply stating that the original function is still largely the one at play is then ignoring everything else, including the individual's choice to do otherwise. The fact that most people are not even aware of the history of lipstick, and will not be able to tell it's to mimic a vagina will tell you that lipstick is not fulfilling that role.

Except it is and anyone who is honest and self-aware will tell you it's true. The problem with the modern world, which is where I agree with Peterson, is that we're blindly following our animal instincts without understanding their implications. So we do things to attract the opposite sex and get flustered when it has that exact effect.

The biggest problem with academia today is its overestimation of culture and social mores on changing human norms. Indeed, there are a lot of social scientists who think that humans are a blank slate, which Pinker tears down in his book of the same name. The denial of animal nature is why women today can simultaneously dress like a whore and get upset why undesirable guys are leering at them. People 50 years ago were not so ignorant of human nature.

Reminder that the blank slate theory has already been debunked by science.

>b-but marx thought all human action was the result of economic forces
The same arguments apply.
Marx was wrong about this.