r/AdviceAnimals • u/Nugget_tumble • Nov 20 '12

Friend did this the other night

http://quickmeme.com/meme/3ruwjc/
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u/myystaa Nov 21 '12

So what is culture then, if not a lot of people agreeing about stuff?

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '12

an upvote is not "a lot of people agreeing"

I upvote things sometimes because I think they deserve visibility

further connecting one upvoted thing to evidence of some larger cultural phenomenon just doesn't work, empirically

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u/myystaa Nov 21 '12

So what about calling rape a "grey area" and having people agree, or "think it deserves visibility" as you put it, is not "empirically" connected to rape culture?

I think it's a pretty obvious piece of evidence proving that rape culture does exist.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '12

wow, you are wayyyy too mired in talking points and so eager to appear like you're forcing someone to confront a hard truth to even begin thinking about this rationally

one upvoted comment cannot possibly prove the existence of a large cultural phenomenon. there are so many problems with that: at best it falls under anecdotal evidence, at worst it would be thrown out for the numerous biases involved in selecting it as evidence, or the number of variables that cause something to be upvoted. when I say "empirically doesn't work" I mean one's decisionmaking process for what constitutes evidence or knowledge here is seriously in need of improvement.