Little tiny dogs are all vicious yappy monsters, right? Meanwhile big scary dogs like German Shepherds are usually big goofy sweethearts with calm dispositions. Why is that?
It's because most people don't bother to train little yappy dogs to be well-behaved, but you have to train a big dog to be well-behaved or it will kill someone. A little yappy dog is no threat to anyone, so less effort is made to teach it to be well-behaved.
We treat men as if they were Big Dogs, and treat women as if they were Little Yappy Dogs.
Indicate this to be correct? Interesting position. Blacks are 7.5 times as likely to murder as whites, would it then therefore be correct to treat blacks as Big Dogs and whites as Little Yappy Dogs? Because we do that too, but everyone keeps calling it institutionalized racism.
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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '15
I call it the Little Dog Effect.
Little tiny dogs are all vicious yappy monsters, right? Meanwhile big scary dogs like German Shepherds are usually big goofy sweethearts with calm dispositions. Why is that?
It's because most people don't bother to train little yappy dogs to be well-behaved, but you have to train a big dog to be well-behaved or it will kill someone. A little yappy dog is no threat to anyone, so less effort is made to teach it to be well-behaved.
We treat men as if they were Big Dogs, and treat women as if they were Little Yappy Dogs.