Catchphrases like "trust the science" and "we're doing it protect our elderly and most vulnerable" are crafted by the media to specifically target women emotionally. Women don't need evidence or explanations when they're coming to a conclusion, they just need to know that "everybody else is doing it" and "people will think you're a bad person if you don't". Their motivations are all in-group/out-group.
Many, many men too sadly. I was drinking with a family member last night, a male, and he honestly said that you have to believe in climate change because David Attenborough said it was true. It's so stupid that it's almost funny.
This has been known and used for centuries. There's a very old joke in media about literally anything, but especially things that are completely neutral:
Hurricane makes landfall! Women and children hardest hit.
Yeah, pretty much. The other day I was talking to my mother about my hesitance in getting the vax and my dislike of what the government is doing here in Aus and I was met with the irrational argument of “what if you don’t get the vax and you get the virus and pass it along to some kid then they die from it? You’d be a murderer!”
To which I argued “No. I wouldn’t be a murderer. Because there is no intent to kill there. What’s to stop you, someone who is double vaxed, still getting the virus and passing it along inadvertently for the same thing to happen. Would that make you a murderer? Not in my eyes, because you had no intent to kill.”
Argument landed on deaf ears and I still got chewed out as being a bad person for not just willingly and blindly agreeing and how my generation is ruining the world.
Point being, there is no logic here, just pure raw emotion as that is what the media preys on. It truly is mass psychosis here. They have everyone so afraid that logic has gone out the window.
Catchphrases like "trust the science" and "we're doing it protect our elderly and most vulnerable" are crafted by the media to specifically target women emotionally. Women don't need evidence or explanations when they're coming to a conclusion, they just need to know that "everybody else is doing it" and "people will think you're a bad person if you don't". Their motivations are all in-group/out-group.
Many, many men too sadly. I was drinking with a family member last night, a male, and he honestly said that you have to believe in climate change because David Attenborough said it was true. It's so stupid that it's almost funny.
This has been known and used for centuries. There's a very old joke in media about literally anything, but especially things that are completely neutral:
In Canada, the joke is changed to "Women and indigenous people."
“Immigrants of colour and indigenous”
Yeah, pretty much. The other day I was talking to my mother about my hesitance in getting the vax and my dislike of what the government is doing here in Aus and I was met with the irrational argument of “what if you don’t get the vax and you get the virus and pass it along to some kid then they die from it? You’d be a murderer!”
To which I argued “No. I wouldn’t be a murderer. Because there is no intent to kill there. What’s to stop you, someone who is double vaxed, still getting the virus and passing it along inadvertently for the same thing to happen. Would that make you a murderer? Not in my eyes, because you had no intent to kill.”
Argument landed on deaf ears and I still got chewed out as being a bad person for not just willingly and blindly agreeing and how my generation is ruining the world.
Point being, there is no logic here, just pure raw emotion as that is what the media preys on. It truly is mass psychosis here. They have everyone so afraid that logic has gone out the window.
We need a separation of science and state.