• Honytawk@feddit.nl
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    21 days ago

    Normal mainly implies average.

    The average person has a spouse and a kid. So the statement is not wrong.

    Doesn’t mean you can’t have a normal life without a wife or a kid. It just doesn’t mean average then.

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          20 days ago

          If we’re being pedantic, the average man has most of two testicles, and the average woman most of two breasts. The average human will have almost one of each :p

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      21 days ago

      Doesn’t mean you can’t have a normal life without a wife or a kid. It just doesn’t mean average then.

      wait. so normal means average, or normal does not mean average?

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      21 days ago

      Its a normative statement. It contributes to alienating people without wives or kids.

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          21 days ago

          Perhaps I came off as too hostile. I read your comment and I thought it was potentially harmful and I’m incredibly depressed, so I wrote a hasty sniping response. I tend to think of things said as their effects in aggregate rather than the virtue of the person saying it.

          I’m also bi and arguably aromantic. And intend to remain childfree.