“As a Western cultural norm, whistling at someone is disrespectful, period.”

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These are comments by Archy, Mori and Salvice on the post “Working-Class Beasts and Rape Culture”.

The Single Biggest Obstacle Facing Boys and Men Today

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When men let someone else define manhood for them, instead of using their own intelligence and being the true author of their own life, they end up buying the culture’s narrow version of masculinity without question.

Moral Relativism vs. Cultural Relativism

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…philosophers generally think that something is ‘relative’ if and only if a) two agents can disagree about some fact about the world b) mean the same thing and c) there is nothing that would settle the matter.