http://kateharding.net/2009/10/08/guest-blogger-starling-schrodinger%E2%80%99s-rapist-or-a-guy%E2%80%99s-guide-to-approaching-strange-women-without-being-maced/
Blog above mentions that every woman when meets a male stranger, her thinking starts from him being a Schrodinger's Rapist(SR). Meaning initial probability of him being a rapist is 50% and then it increases or decreases depending on correlation between his behavior and her rapist character scale.
Justification1: So many men are rapist so who knows how the new man could be. So it is safe to assume 50% probability and then increase or decrease it as you know him further.
Justification2: It happens unconsciously partly because of rapes being a fact of life. So in a way men are responsible for this discrimination.
Fair enough.
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Now, How about:
1.Whenever I see a black american I think him as a Schrodinger's thief.
2.When I see a white southafrican I think of him as a Schrodinger's white supremist.
3.When I see a south asian I think of him as a Schrodinger's muslim jihadi.
Justifications used above can fit all 3 points in this case. But still it is being racist.
Is it not being sexist in case of Schrodinger's Rapist(SR) assumption then?
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The other effect this blog has started to have on me is as follows:
As I search through and realize more and more women actually do think of a stranger male as SR, I have knowingly or unknowingly started generalizing myself.
Whenever I see a woman this thing comes to my mind, would she be thinking of me as SR? And so is she sexist as well? I try and persuade myself that this is a gross generalization. Thinking of all women as sexists is also sexism after all. So then I come to a point where I think the woman might or might not be thinking of me as SR. So she is a Schrodinger's SR thinker.
What should I do to see a person as a person and not as a person who thinks of me as a rapist and make other person to see me as a person not a rapist?
