{"id":187,"date":"2006-02-10T00:22:50","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T04:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2006\/02\/10\/idiots-amuse-me\/"},"modified":"2006-02-10T00:22:50","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T04:22:50","slug":"idiots-amuse-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2006\/02\/10\/idiots-amuse-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiots amuse me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I not shocked that <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/feminist\/\">a group of people with arguments as insanely shoddy as this one<\/a> don&#8217;t want to let outside opinions ruin the sound in their little echo chamber? Here is a gem of a reply to <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/feminist\/2393696.html\">this almost sane post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have a hard time relating to your black man example since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never dated ANY man. that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m anti-man; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because the thought of sleeping with a man disgusts me\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it always has.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So boys and girls&#8230; if this chick finds men disgusting thats just how she is made &#8211; but if you don&#8217;t find some fat Asian chick hot then your a &#8220;sizist, racist bigot&#8221;. Here is the reply I would have posted, if they weren&#8217;t such pussies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>Soulhuntre would have said&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The assumption seems to be that in absence of social pressures that any given human would find any other human equally attractive as any other. And it simply isn&#8217;t true. Every species on earth has preferences for sexual partners, some easily linked to survival \/ health issues and some less eaily linked. It makes no sense to think that humans are outside of this.<\/p>\n<p>Now, obviously social pressures effect this and help shape it &#8211; but underneath all that is the simple reality that innate preferences in partners do exist.<\/p>\n<p>Attempting to portray it all as a social construct is just not going to work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I not shocked that a group of people with arguments as insanely shoddy as this one don&#8217;t want to let outside opinions ruin the sound in their little echo chamber? Here is a gem of a reply to this almost sane post: &#8220;I have a hard time relating to your black man example [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}