Chasing Ghosts: Once you put the feminism glasses on you'll see misogyny eveywhere, whether it's there or not


I recently came across this posting where a woman complains how she was subjeted to misogyny. 

"I SWEAR THIS IS WHY THEY CHANGED THEIR MINDS
A few months ago I rented a car, had no issues, and returned it. Got a call that the car was damaged and I needed to cover the repairs. I had photos from right before I returned it (hotel camera) showing that the car was fine, so I called and emailed but couldn't get hold of anyone who could help and my emails went unanswered. This went on for two months. Then a bill for $2500+ showed up in the mail, even though I still hadn't heard from anyone.

Eventually, since I hadn't paid the bill, a claims person was assigned to me. She sent an appeal to their dispute team. The dispute team never called, never emailed, didn't answer my email. But about a week later I got two letters on the same day: one said they were aware of my appeal, one said they were dismissing my appeal. On the same day. No explanation. On a whim, I sent one last email, and noted at the bottom that I was cc'ing my husband.

I got an email two days later that they'd decided to cover the charges themselves. FFS!"

Reading through the text it does feel that company is struggling with it's customer service: they are not answering emails; issues are rumbling on for months and they are even sending out seperate letters, on the same day, explaining an appeal was happening and that it had been dismissed. The lady sends an email, and cc's her husband, right before the issue is finally resolved and dismissed. She then decides the reason it was dismissed, after all this time, was because she cc'd her husband into the correspondance.

Correlation absolutely DOES NOT MEAN causation! As Occam's razor states "The simplest explanation is usually the correct one". That most likely explanation, to me anyway, was the claim made it's way through an underfunded, understaffed, customer relations department before the company realised that they had no legal leg to stand on and dismissed it. OR did the ignore ALL EMAILS until they received one, single, final email right at the end, which also had a man's name cc'd in it and THEN decide to dimiss it ?

It seems absolutely fanciful that the complaints department, after months of ineptitude, finally jumped into life and resolved the complaint instantly upon receving an email with a man's name cc'd into it. I mean, if this simple dodge dismissed all problems then it would be well known knowledge with boards advising people to try this. To date, I've never seen this handed out as advice.

Just because she happened to send an email, just before it got resolved, she is convinced that it was the cc of a man's name that resolves it. It says more about her belief of the world, how absolutely unfair everything is, more than anything else. She spends so much time in echo chambers that she has started to take on a weird, warped, perception of reality with only the slightest information to back up her fanciful claims. In this way, whether it is true or not, she now see's misogyny everywhere and patriachy holding her back. Is this actually real ? Or a figmant of her imagination ? If it's a figmant of her imagination, which I strongly suspect it is, then how many other women are seeing the patriachy boogeyman when there is, in fact, nothing there but their own imagination ? Like a person looking at an ink splatter and seeing a horse, or unicorn rather than simply an ink splatter. It reveals more about their own prejudices, their own psychology, there own project on the world than anything else.

Given we've already had Occam's razor let's consider Hanlon's razor, which I feel explains what happened with the customer relations department:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

but there again, that was two men giving two razors and they were more than likely trying to hold her back due to their own misogyny...

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