To be fair, I competed in debate in high school and university. The one thing I learned was that winning a debate has absolutely nothing to do with what you said and everything to do with how you said it. The good debaters make other people feel good about what they say. Debating is basically nothing more than being a con-artist in debate format.
And this is 100% correct of an assessment. Anyone ever in an argument with a woman before would recognize the implications. When a woman is proven wrong in an argument she spins the whole argument to be about how the way in which the man showed her she was wrong is wrong.
That's debate in a nutshell. You can be 100% right but if you said it in a manner the women didn't like, it doesn't matter how right you are.
They're usually not "debating" in the sense of critically thinking together with the shared goal of arriving at the truth or a workable hypothesis, they're just "sharing." It's only about emotions and social signals, not the actual conceptual content or the pragmatic questions of what and how to do things.
To be fair, I competed in debate in high school and university. The one thing I learned was that winning a debate has absolutely nothing to do with what you said and everything to do with how you said it. The good debaters make other people feel good about what they say. Debating is basically nothing more than being a con-artist in debate format.
It's what happens when women become the majority of your electorate.
And this is 100% correct of an assessment. Anyone ever in an argument with a woman before would recognize the implications. When a woman is proven wrong in an argument she spins the whole argument to be about how the way in which the man showed her she was wrong is wrong.
That's debate in a nutshell. You can be 100% right but if you said it in a manner the women didn't like, it doesn't matter how right you are.
They're usually not "debating" in the sense of critically thinking together with the shared goal of arriving at the truth or a workable hypothesis, they're just "sharing." It's only about emotions and social signals, not the actual conceptual content or the pragmatic questions of what and how to do things.