The Rationalization Hamster and Foolish Behavior

With a side order of the media twisting statistics to further an agenda. Violence Against Women Update : The Other McCain

As a follow up to Robert Stacy McCain's screed on rationalization, we get more on the rationalization of bad behavior.

This is just more violence against women feminists won’t notice, for some reason.

There is much to recommend the linked article. And you should click thru. Media hyping certain rare-by-notorious crimes to "prove" how dangerous "educated white males" are, and probably how complicit educated white females are in that danger. But I will concentrate on the rationalization of bad behavior.

“Equality” seems to require that women go through life without ever encountering negative feedback, no matter how foolish or harmful their actions may be, so the effect of feminism in public discourse is to make women off-limits to criticism (unless they vote Republican).

The problem with this, you see, is that without feedback — including the kind of feedback that might persuade a woman not to get tattoos on her breasts — all sorts of foolish behavior are likely to proliferate because, without critical feedback, bad judgment tends to become generalized.

Go read the whole thing.