Do people actually think the system is all a choice?
Yes. That’s why some people make different choices from people who are 99.99% biological matches who were raised in similar conditions.
Nobody lives the same existence so any differences, especially over time, are products of those differences. Even identical twins in the same home don’t experience the same existence and aren’t the same person and make different choices.
I think you missed my point. The same conditions, even in physics, don’t always produce the same result.
Then they aren’t the same conditions.
Yeah.
Do you think systemic sexism is inherent and perpetuated without human compliance?
I think choice is largely an illusion.
The illusion of freewill doesn’t absolve you of your self aware moral obligations.
Regardless of whether it’s an illusion - if it is an illusion, it’s a compelling one, to the point that you can’t be perfectly confident in it being illusory.
You should, logically, at least try to carry out change by your own hands, because the alternative is to potentially squander whatever autonomy you may have.
It’d be like standing at an unlocked door, but being so convinced it’s locked, that you don’t even give a good try at turning the knob.
How we perceive choice does affect behavior but it’s one of a myriad of things and how you perceive choice isn’t a choice either. Change occurs without requiring choice, even change by ones own hands. Nothing is squandered if it never existed. We will still behave and our behavior will cause changes, but it isn’t a choice how we behave. So any sexism, in the system of behavior we are all a part of, is a product, not a choice.
Impotence is an illusion that helps keep us in our lanes.
That presupposes we have the power to leave the lanes we are in, which, I don’t think we do.
Maybe you don’t, but women are doing science now and they weren’t allowed to a century ago.
Not with that mindset.
Not with any mindset.
