@Mordred
My worry about this is that it seems to presuppose that the body/ looks aren't important at all - and that's just not true. We respond to how people look, and I can't see any reason why we oughtn't. For sure, I hope that there's more to it than that - for my own sake - but criticising people for emphasising the physical seems to misfire for me.

I don't see the point of your claim about hitting girls and how that's relevant. If it's wrong to hit people, it's wrong irrespective of sex. I don't buy the claim that there's something especially wrong about hitting some people. (Nor do I buy the claim that physical violence is always wrong. I've seen enough fights in my time to realise that being female doesn't make a person demure. If someone's coming at me with a bottle, I'll try to get my punch in first. That seems reasonable enough.)
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 24 Apr 2008, 13:02, Reply)