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by jonathanconway 4874 days ago
> I'm not trying to describe 100% of all humans, walking around, with my own little pet theory

Neither am I, I'm just trying to describe the majority of humans, based on my own experiences.

> The enormous hidden assumption is that 3 billion+ people can be jammed into your tidy little binary choice.

And you're assuming there aren't traits that are common among most of those 3 billion+ people. But I think this marketing video indicates that there are certain common traits, which marketing is designed to appeal to.

> Jonathan Conway figured it out.

I'm not the first person to make these claims.

> nobody asked you to "shut up and put up just because [you're] a guy."

Fine, not here, but on many other forums (e.g. feminist) that's what I'd be told in an indirect kind of way.

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> Neither am I, I'm just trying to describe the majority of humans, based on my own experiences.

Oh, that makes your impotent intellectual assertions suddenly defensible again. My mistake.