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[–]Chipit 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Women do not naturally want to be nothing more than baby makers, who cry and like pink glitter, who only care about adornment and home making. This is all a social construct.

Well now that's a lie. Normal women want to have children, there's no doubt about that. The part about glitter is a dishonest argument, known as an absurd absolute.

An absurd absolute is a restatement of the other person's reasonable position as an absurd absolute. For example, if your point is there is high crime in Detroit, the absurd absolute would be your debate opponent saying something such as "So, you're saying every person in Detroit is a criminal." When your debate opponent recasts your opinion to include an "absolute" word, such as every, always, never, all, completely, universally, and the like, you are seeing cognitive dissonance.

Some people call what I just described a strawman argument. But a strawman argument refers to any sort of inaccurate recasting of your opponent's argument. That is the generic case. I'm referring to a specific strawman argument that uses an absurd absolute. When your debate opponent recasts your point as an absurd absolute, you won the debate. That's as far as you can go.

-- How to Know You Won a Political Debate on the Internet

Of course normal women want to have children. Why else the withering hostility towards motherhood? This is the key:

"No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children...because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one."

-- French feminist Simone de Beauvoir

[–]nonpenishaver 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

"Women do not naturally want to be nothing more than baby makers"

"Well now that's a lie. Normal women want to have children"

I don't think you realize that these 2 statements don't mean the same thing.

[–]Chipit 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The full quote: "Women do not naturally want to be nothing more than baby makers, who cry and like pink glitter, who only care about adornment and home making. This is all a social construct."

She took a bunch of lies, mixed them with the truth, and called it all a lie. "Women naturally want to have children" becomes "nothing more than baby makers". This sort of dishonest argument is all over the place in feminism, and they get away with it because nobody is allowed to argue back.

Well, that's about to change, bigtime.