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The Second Sexism | David Benatar

Brain in a Vat

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Is There Discrimination Against Women?

In your book, you suggest that there should be an agent playing a role in discrimination. And so we can imagine thata sexeus individual who has a particular intention when they want to treat some one worse off on the grounds of their sex. You also talked about society doing that. So i suppose some of the claims are that society doesn't intend on treating people in a sexous way, it's just that they've innocuously set up structures that have some kind of deferential impact. How does this play out in the case of discrimination against men? Well, again, sir, although i do think you need to have an agent there, i don't think that the discrimination needs to

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