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by MachineElf 4106 days ago
I am not exactly sure in what way his discourse seems as though it were addressed to an audience of men only. My political correctness meter is tingling.
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> We, as men, will never actually understand female orgasms and women will never know how ours are felt, no matter how accurate one tries to describe it.
My position is almost the same as btilly's. When he says "We, as men, will never actually understand female orgasms and women will never know how ours are felt... " anaolykarpov is merely including himself in the more general set of men, and thus communicating an opinion as an element representative of that set, regardless of the audience. The disjunction with the set of women is necessary to underline the fact that there might be a fundamental qualitative/quantitative difference in the way orgasm is felt by the two.

In fact, the statement wouldn't have been any less correct had the audience been only women.

The same applies if a woman were to say "We, as women, will never ..."