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[Anonymous No.15906608]

Why don't girls read philosophy books?

[Anonymous No.15906673]

>>15906608
Because critical theory works better

[Anonymous No.15906679]

>>15906608
it doesn't get them likes on social media

[Anonymous No.15906703]

>>15906608
if we're generalising, it's because philosophy books have little bearing on the female preoccupation, which is an inclination towards that of people and of emotion, as opposed to the male penchant for the abstract and the inanimate concrete.

[Anonymous No.15906708]

>>15906608
estrogen impedes their intellect so they go for theory

[今晚打老虎 No.15906720]

[Anonymous No.15906724]

my gf only read schopenhauer and heidegger
I will dump her if she doesn't start reading deleuze and guattari before next week

[Anonymous No.15906812]

oh no sweetie....yall still all those racist dead white men? that's an yikes from me

[Anonymous No.15906913]

>>15906608
Women, comprising a majority of the people who study humanities and the social sciences, read more philosophy than men.

[Anonymous No.15906944]

>>15906724
>my gf only read schopenhauer and heidegger
sure she (he) does

[Anonymous No.15907351]

>>15906608
Because of the aprioristical male approximation. And that is also the reason female philosophers can write more novel ideas than traditional male philosophers (even if they don't do it and just write liberal dogshit like almost every american or european female philosopher at this moment).

[Anonymous No.15907453]

>>15906608
>girls
Don't.

Women do.

[Anonymous No.15907654]

[Anonymous No.15907688]

>>15907654
She said this ?

[Anonymous No.15907775]

>>15906608
I'm a teenage girl and have read more than you. Shut up

[Anonymous No.15907802]

>>15907453
I love sandals, most especially girls cute feet in sandals.

[Anonymous No.15907807]

>>15906724
>dumping your gf because she doesn't like your favorite theorycels

D+G are just Spinoza and Nietzsche without the former's clarity and the latter's excellent prose.

[Anonymous No.15907846]

>>15907775
>I'm a teenage girl and have read more than you. Shut up

[Anonymous No.15907856]

Just because most of the posters here are men, and they all pretend to read philosophy, does not mean that men read philosophy

[Anonymous No.15907860]

>>15907846
I love you

[Anonymous No.15907871]

>>15907846
Why would yo bully a child on internet? Filthy americans, you are gross.

[Anonymous No.15907875]

They will never consider things that truly are uncomfortable

[Anonymous No.15907887]

>>15907871
Suck a fart from the USA

[Anonymous No.15907907]

>>15906913
how do you know? although women read more than men in aggregate (i.e. across all subject matters and genres), and although more women study humanities and socsci, it doesn't necessarily follow that the amount of philosophy read by women is greater than that read by men.
consider that more men receive philosophy degrees (https://www.amacad.org/humanities-indicators/higher-education/gender-distribution-degrees-philosophy)), or that more men get phds, more men go to grad school, more men get tenure track positions, more men get actual professorships, etc. in fact, in all likelihood, you're flat out wrong.

(from personal experience, I've noticed that women in academia seem far less curious and less likely to read difficult books. I've known female graduate students who read young adult fantasy in their free time!)

[今晚打老虎 No.15907928]

>>15907688
can someone dig up some more feet pics. im too lazy to do it myself, but im too coomer to not want to see more.
>who wouldnt want to enjoy a beautiful sunset
>who wouldnt want to gaze upon a pair of elegant feet
>who wouldnt want to conceptualize the aroma

[Anonymous No.15907952]

>>15906608
BECAUSE
THEY'RE
GIRLS

[Anonymous No.15907970]

>>15907928
Here

[Anonymous No.15907997]

>>15907952
this. imagine caring about the education of some stupid roastie LMAO.

[今晚打老虎 No.15908036]

>>15907970
ive seen these two pics of Kat a million times before, anon. you should know by now because its probably just us two propping up these occasional Kat threads desoo.

[Anonymous No.15908093]

>>15908036
Shit, my bad dude. I like trying to get people into her feet. Sorry bout that.

[今晚打老虎 No.15908168]

>>15908093
its okay fren. i wasnt trying to be mean.

[Anonymous No.15908199]

>>15908168
Glad you are on the board with me :)

[Anonymous No.15908303]

>>15906608
alot of them are centered for men and men who read philosophy are the most pretentious faggots ever

[Anonymous No.15908328]

>>15906608
Because to have a legitimate interest in philosophy you have to be deeply dissatisfied with the answers you're given about how the world works, admit to yourself that this is because you don't know enough (even if no one understands anything, at least YOU don't understand it), decide that getting more knowledge would result in your being satisfied, and recognize when answers are given to appear smart rather than out of legitimate consideration and thought. This entire process requires you to be:
1. Aware of your surroundings
2. Humble
3. Curious
4. Positively critical
Whether women are not encouraged to do these things or they're incapable of them, those skills are much rarer in the female population than the male population imo. That said, most men aren't all of those things either. They're rare traits to appear in combination.

[Anonymous No.15908336]

>>15908303
cool it with the homophobia

[Anonymous No.15908341]

>>15908336
is heterophobia ok. i can do that

[Anonymous No.15908416]

>>15906724
she deserves better than some fucking theorycel
take after your girlfriend and read heidegger faggot

[Anonymous No.15908597]

>>15906608
Philosophy is for high IQ white men only and the rare human Jew or human Asian. Modern women (animals) fill the void of childlessness with Critical Theory. Critical Theory enables women to view non white retard child races as the retard sub human retard child races that they are. Women now have entire races of brutally stupid, severely retarded, talking chimpanzee, nigger children to care for. This surrogate activity is enough to consume their smaller brain power but obviously not a replacement for the love between a mother and child and thus the angry, childless, penis envying, modern trash (white) "woman".

[Anonymous No.15908607]

>>15906608
Grils are into cooking, anon. It is that simple. Maybe if you invent some cooking philosophy.

[Anonymous No.15908624]

>>15908607
are male chefs just trans girls in disguise? it's all starting to make sense...

[Anonymous No.15908649]

men read de beauvoir?

[Anonymous No.15908665]

>>15906679
>>15906703
>>15906708
>>15907351
>>15907952
>>15907997
>>15908328
>>15908597
>>15908607
Fucking degenerate incel losers basking in the reflected glory of others' intellectual accomplishments to cope with their low self-esteem as the result of being loveless social rejects whom non-sociopaths want nothing to do with.

[Anonymous No.15908678]

>>15908665
>>15908624
No, you need cooking.

[Anonymous No.15908692]

>>15908665
Imagine being this offended by reality?
You should try letting go of some of that anger brother. The truth truly will set you free.

[Anonymous No.15908696]

>>15908649
based as fuck anon

[Anonymous No.15908704]

They have too many holes in need of filling.

[Anonymous No.15908716]

>>15908649
Muh existentialism. Disgusting, anon.

[Anonymous No.15908809]

>>15908597
pretentious faggot

[Anonymous No.15908832]

>>15906608
It’s a waste of time. You’ll get to a point where you realize nothing you read matters and go back to jerking off 7 hours a day to fill the void you tried to fill with musty books you bought off Amazon to stroke your ego.
Read Wittgenstein then read some eastern books and then say fuck it and live your life. Being smart, rich, whatever the fuck else your craving is all pointless especially when you’re main motivation is to impress others or to have a reason to judge others.
Fuck that shit.

[Anonymous No.15908839]

>>15906608
just enter any philosophy campus you idiot. women that read philosophy wont be where you incel pieces of shit dwell.

[Anonymous No.15908840]

>>15908832
Based girl philosopher.

[Anonymous No.15908842]

>>15906608
Kitchen Metaphysics is a thing, anon.

[Anonymous No.15908879]

>>15907846
what a fool, liying in wait to post that kind of childish raging wojaks, at the object of his obsession. Little does he know, he and his likes are only cynical and dismissive out of impotence, the only option for the weakling without real power, for he only desires his master and not something beyond. You are all just like the crestfallen warrior from dark souls: his sarcasm it's only a veil for his weakness and lack of power.

[Anonymous No.15908886]

>>15908328
Based

[Anonymous No.15909013]

>>15908839
studying philosophy and can confirm there are zero females in any of my classes

[Anonymous No.15909064]

>>15909013
what courses are you taking?

[Anonymous No.15909065]

>>15907970
>>15908036
they're not even good

[Anonymous No.15909074]

>>15908842
Unironically did more good to the world than Aristotle.

[Anonymous No.15909220]

>>15909013
I study philosophy and my course is packed with women, the majority of them being of great beauty i may add. However, when it comes to insightfulness, i would say that only a few of them can be said to possess it, but so can be said of men. I have also found that men in my course are far more pretentious and intelletually violent than women (even when they are not knowledgable, wich make them far more irritating than women): they partake in more debates, ask more questions in class, test their fellow students more when in philosophical discussion, etc. The most intelligent men i have spoken to have a surprisingly similar pattern of behaviour and motivation: they were arrogant, but charmingly so, each one in its own spontaneous way, partly using philosophy as a means for power, in general it is some kind of power dynamic that motivates them (something against which i am not against).

On the other hand i have seen that women, not necessarily being less intelligent, as i have found discussing with them many times on uni, do not partake in those things as often, ask less questions while taking more notes, tend to socialize less on campus, a portion of them being shy or socially inept (usually the smarter ones), and are not as violent when in philosophical discussion, some being prone to passivity, hiding their strenghts:

For example, me and a friend where talking about this girl we usually hang out with after class with the rest of our group composed of many people. I had spoken a bit with her, but never have i heard her speak about philosophy but once, which didnt left me impressed (However, it was ethics we were discussing, probably the most uniteresting discipline).I told him my impression, which was that she seemed pretty chill but not knowledgable, but then he surprised me: she was translating Heidegger's Being and Time in spanish and was pretty knowledgable.

Where men usually take philosophy on the front as their token of power (rightly so) women do not have this approach, women that are thirsty for power usually find it in political activity, i had the pleasure to speak to many such women and i admire some of them for their resourcefulness, however, they are usually attracted to radlib causes, quite sadly. I have yet to meet a women of such kind in the more radical, totally outside the anarchist/sjw/wokie sphere, something that men are more usually repulsed by.

Thats my experience, to answer op. Hope he stops being an incel.

[Anonymous No.15909231]

>>15908842
>>15909074
based

[Anonymous No.15909281]

Are there any female philosophers of note apart from feminists? Or are Ayn Rand and Hannah Arendt really the closest thing?

[Anonymous No.15909300]

>>15909281
none that are famous or especially popular. most female philosophers who have some feminist ideology also have different focuses, so it seems somewhat unfair to exclude them.

[Anonymous No.15909304]

>>15909281
A lot of feminist philosophers have their other works unrelated to feminism ignored.

[Anonymous No.15909347]

the ones who do are very annoying

[Anonymous No.15909358]

>>15909347
tbf nearly everyone interested in philosophy is annoying

[Anonymous No.15909391]

>>15909220
Comfyposting, anon.

[Anonymous No.15909461]

>>15909220
That's reassuring. There's still hope for me yet looking for a pious Catholic philosophy gf. How should you go about philosophy with women? It's easy enough with men, but I feel you can't use the same approach just because I have a tendency to be a bit interrupting and brash about what I feel when talking philosophy with men.

>>15909281
There's G.E.M. Anscombe (worked with Wittgenstein and very Catholic woman) ,Phillipa Foot (ditto except she's an atheist but a hard virtue ethicist) and Edith Stein (worked with Husserl and a canonized Catholic saint) off the top of my head

[Anonymous No.15909503]

Source? Id imagine about 99% of people don't read philosophy

[Anonymous No.15909509]

>>15906703
>philosophy
>abstract
If it isn't based on reality then you are doing philosophy wrong.

[Anonymous No.15909534]

>>15909461
making sure not to interrupt is a good thing. it sometimes takes a bit to get the abstract thought in my head into comprehensible language, so don't talk really really fast and expect me to keep up the same pace. when you're first speaking with someone about philosophy, avoid exceedingly controversial shit. and don't use personal attacks (which applies to all, but i think generally affects women more). take these with a grain of salt as i am only one woman and only have a couple of female friends who i can regularly debate/just talk with about philosophy. if any male anons could add you'd get a more well rounded idea. best of luck anon :)

[Anonymous No.15909638]

[Anonymous No.15909671]

>>15907970
ew, feet

[Anonymous No.15909725]

>>15906608

I asked a coworker this once and she said that women are more focused on attracting mates than spending time "starting with the Greeks". I found this an odd response for many reasons but instead of pursuing this topic to an end which would no doubt lead to an unharmonious work environment, I replied with "hmm I see" and took her answer to be a confession of her interests and priorities.

[Anonymous No.15909795]

>>15909725
interesting take. i would say personally both genders do this at relatively even levels, but it's a respectable opinion to have.

[Anonymous No.15909845]

me forcing my gf to read the world as will and representation

[Anonymous No.15909974]

>>15909534
Thanks for the advice, femanon. I really appreciate it. I can't wait for things to get back to normal so I can put it to use.