Serious truth here. You just bumped the conversation up to a who new intellectual level!
Alexander Grace
2018-10-23 04:22:50 +0000 UTC
Clear case of cognitive disonance here. People are not aware of how powerful cognitive disonance is. And what's worse: even people who study cognitive disonance for a job can't help falling into it multiple times every day. There is no free will. Our mind creates post hoc rationalizations to justify patterns of behaviour that are deeply based on hundreds of thousands of years of evolution.
The question is not: "will you date a man who has a mental health issue?". The question is "what additional traits will make a man who suffers mental health issues become dateable for a woman at your status and current age?"
But this is not women being evil. This is human nature and it happens to every single one of us on a daily basis. If you ask me: "would you befriend someone with an speech impairment or someone with mild autism?" I would certainly answer "yes, definitely, why not, if that person is interesting". But I am pretty sure uncontiously those factors are going to be huge in our friendship. I may unfriend that person and give to myself another reason to justify my decision. But there is a bias that is very difficult to escape. And sometimes that bias is there for a good reason (psychopaths), other times it's just sad and depressing (people with stuttering issues), but that's human nature.
The sheer arrogance modern people have is astonishing. We come up with disruptive grand theories of discrimination, victimhood, cultural theories based on the blank slate... Cause our lattes and iPhones can beat evolutionary biology, right?
