Armchair Activism
The alternative to this is what I call armchair activism. Those are the people who make the arguments about, “But why do we have to use science to figure out the origins of gender differences? Why can’t men and women just see each other as mystical, magical, wondrous creatures, and accept that they just can’t understand each other sometimes, and accept that as part of the mystery of life? Why can’t we just let people figure these things out for themselves through their own life experiences?” Then these people go join activist groups, and force open-minded people to recognize the validity of their points of view, and they turn the group into an armchair activist group, and they pat themselves on the backs for accomplishing basically nothing.
If you look at what the armchair activist says, all the problems in the world are either so complicated that they have to be accepted as part of life because no one can figure out how to solve them, or else solving them is so easy and so personal that it’s best left up to the people who are having the problems. If those people can’t figure out how to solve their problems, it must prove that the problems are too complicated to solve. Then the armchair activist pats himself on the back for being wise enough to figure all this out, and claims that doing nothing makes him an activist.
The only way the life experience strategy can solve problems is if you only define life experience as anything that does solve problems. But on the contrary, everything that people ever do is life experience. Men beating their wives is life experience. Women getting beaten by their husbands is life experience. Verbal abuse is a life experience. Rape is a life experience.
If you try to turn your emotional insecurity into a political movement, then the success of your political movement depends on a whole lot of people suffering just to placate the emotional attachments you’ve made to your faulty ideas about science.
And if you go spreading anti-science propaganda like that, what else do you think the Capitalists are going to do besides help spread your propaganda, to help themselves divide and conquer?









