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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
Why is it that so many men who fancy themselves to be 'consumers of philosophy' are instead narcissistic, misogynistic assholes with compulsive sexual needs?
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I'll venture to guess that it's because most of them have completely overlooked Kant. One cannot hope to approach modern philosophy with any semblance of coherence having overlooked Kant. I think the OP should read Kant. Failing that, a "shortcut" of sorts would be just to jump into Habermas.
The narcissistic, misogynistic (and often misandric) sexual compulsive who rhymes off philosophical tidbits rehashed by their personal prejudices likely do so only after having a pick-and-choosefest of the "stuff" they liked best, which is likely the stuff that feeds into their desires---the arrangement of which is formulated by their skewed worldview. It's the kind of guy who, if they aren't going to approach philosophy in a fair and balanced way as a detriment of their condition/situation, then they should just stick to listening to death metal and/or gangsta rap to commiserate with something. It's much simpler.
It's the same kind of guy who doesn't realize that
Fight Club is a scathing satire, not a source of desirable life philosophy.
I'm not sayin' that the OP is this kind of guy. I'm just sayin'....
One cannot even hope to take the idea of "post-feminism" seriously beyond it as a mere misunderstanding of feminism. (It is my observation that most people don't get it.)
I won't even go into sociology or psychology.