The problem with lived experience
The problem with lived experience is that it's often proffered as evidence as to why a certain thing is the way it is. Feminist circles often use this to push the narrative that "All men are trash". Page after page of how awful men have been are offfered and it shows a compelling picture.
The thing is that this "lived experience" is not really evidence of anything. We all know the odds of winning the UK national lottery are approximately 1 in 14 million. This is the equivalent of tossing a coin and getting heads 21 times in a row. It's extremely unlikely, yet there were 383 winners in 2024.
The majority of people will accept that winning the lottery is extremely unlikely. However if you are in a large enough population then there will likely be a few lottery winners there. "It's really unlikely you will win the lottery", "Well I did!", "Yes and so did I". It starts to feel that those incredibly long odds are actually more common than you would think.
In another way, even with a relatively small audience, of say 100 people, you can make amazing things appear to happen. Like the psychic who tells the audience "Does anybody have a relative, named Elsie, died recently, in the last few years, maybe decade" and sure enough somebody will put their hand up. The psychic can then offer things that seem uncanny "She's says you are not to worry about the thing that was troubling you, it's all going to be OK".By taking large enough trials of things, incredible things can happy.
And so we see it withy feminists talking about "lived experience" and how awful men are. It's similar to the psychic telling you they have a message from beyond the grave. It's a bonkers, completely unscientific thing to claim, yet they can use the same tricks to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that something is real. Lived experience can even be 2nd hand "my friend said" or even feminists taking Tik Tok videos, of lived experience, as gospel truth and not actually click bait.
Whilst feminism really doesn't stand up to any form of scrutiny, from the myth of men doing less housework or the equally untrue epidemic of male on female violence feminist, those that want to believe, often point to their own lived experience. With that you can prove anything, if you have an agenda those times you are wronged will often come to the forefront. If you want to see that men are awful no doubt we'll have experiences of that. Me myself, can remember where men have acted poorly towads to me. Is it "All men" ? No, of course not. I also can remember when women behaved poorly. Do I decide that all women are awful ? No of course not, that's sexism (remember, that what Feminism is meant to be against)
At it's core calling on "lived experience", it's nothing more than misandry. Like the pyschic showing that there's spirits beyond the grave wanting to communicate, you can show that all men are awful with a bit of being economical with the truth and remembering some events more clearly than others.
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