What is natural?
What about human behavior is natural?
Is sexism natural?
If sexism is natural than I suppose tribal warfare is natural.
Fine. I totally disagree with this statement, but for the sake of argument lets just say that war and misogyny are natural.
Somebody please tell me why such a statement like "it's only natural" makes it acceptable?
I fail to see the logic in this phrase and it pisses me off that in reality what we consider natural is really nothing more than what we humans have become used to seeing day in and day out. What we consider "natural" is only what is NORMAL and what is NORMAL can be changed.
As can anything "natural."
So please, tell me why the hell "it's only natural" is a justifiable argument for ANY form of oppression?!
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well, I'm with you love. It's never an acceptable excuse. But people who believe it is an acceptable excuse never stop to think about the why of things. That's the very nature of the argument: a refusal to consider that things could be any other way. And obviously if you're questioning what they consider to be obvious, you're not natural/normal, so who would want to listen to you when you try to open their minds? [sarcasm] yay for circular reasoning. [/sarcasm]
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