What would be some fact that, while true, could be told in a context or way that is misinfomating or make the other person draw incorrect conclusions?

  • Many years ago I worked as an analyst at a small VC firm. My boss, who was a raging misogynist prick and liked to date College freshmen, LOVED this fact (and any other Manosphere bullshit he could find about women being inferior to men). He was such an unbelievable stereotype, he could have stepped out of a sitcom.

    • Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I mean, neanderthals had bigger brains than humans, and they were no smarter than we are (as far as we know.)

      Also a blue whale’s brain is four times the size of a human brain and they don’t even know how to drive.

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      1 year ago

      It’s my pet hypothesis that people are drawn to the comfort of sitcom-level characters because they’re so basic and predictable, even when they’re terrible. Real life is so complicated that black-and-white thinking blasted by people like that is just so low-energy to consume.