Scott Adams Posts On Rape And Other Natural Instincts

Scott Adams penned a short essay on his blog Wednesday, and if you're thinking, "Well, when that kind of statement leads off a post, that can't be good," you're right. In a piece called "Pegs and Holes," Adams listed "raping" along with "tweeting," "cheating," "behaving badly" and "being offensive" in the same, long, descriptive sentence of ostensibly aberrant behavior. This created an uncomfortable equivalency made worse when (arguably, but I think it's pretty clear) that list of things were later described as "natural instincts" of men. Adams then described a world view where the natural instincts of men are curtailed while equivalent instincts from women are not. In a half-step back on the probable offense scale, but still the kind of thing rich people should hire folks to slap the keyboard out of their hands as they're writing it, the Dilbert cartoonist then went on to describe this curtailment in terms such as castration.

I and most people I know find this kind of thinking shocking and repugnant coming from a grown man, perhaps doubly so a super-successful one like Adams for whom one would guess there's not the usual spur of trying to figure out why life has thwarted them that sometimes results in this kind of expression. It seems flat-out odd that anyone would post something like this for public consumption, let alone that it would come from the keyboard of someone whose income derives from a relationship with an audience that at the very least has to be comfortable with you. Then again, it's not like Adams is a rising talent in any way, and I'm guessing likely sees himself as not threatened by anything like this, not in a severe sense. The ironic thing is that for Adams' worldview to be truth he would have been stopped from saying this kind of thing in the first place or at least would now suffer something more egregious than a flood of attention and a chorus of people calling him an asshole. I'm not holding my breath.
 
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