By Recently,
Harris O’Malley, a “dating coach” who apparently thinks being a
groveling subservient is the way to success in dating, penned an article
for HuffPo titled, “On Labeling Women ‘Crazy’”.
The biggest fallacy of this article, right out the gate, is the premise that labeling is something that men are doing to women. As shown in Diana Davison’s article, “It’s a woman problem”, most of the people calling women names are other women. But the stupidity does not end there.
The core thesis of the article seems to be, “There are certain words that are applied to women specifically in order to manipulate them into compliance: ‘slut,’ ‘bitch,’ ‘ugly/fat’ and, of course, ‘crazy.’” Now, I can agree that the words “slut” and “ugly/fat” are indeed used to manipulate women into compliance… when used by other women in intrasexual competition. Unenlightened women don’t like other women who “cheapen” what they see as their primary commodity, and they’ll use cruel words to undermine the confidence of rivals.
The biggest fallacy of this article, right out the gate, is the premise that labeling is something that men are doing to women. As shown in Diana Davison’s article, “It’s a woman problem”, most of the people calling women names are other women. But the stupidity does not end there.
The core thesis of the article seems to be, “There are certain words that are applied to women specifically in order to manipulate them into compliance: ‘slut,’ ‘bitch,’ ‘ugly/fat’ and, of course, ‘crazy.’” Now, I can agree that the words “slut” and “ugly/fat” are indeed used to manipulate women into compliance… when used by other women in intrasexual competition. Unenlightened women don’t like other women who “cheapen” what they see as their primary commodity, and they’ll use cruel words to undermine the confidence of rivals.