Disclaimer for Trump: The below is not specifically about you, I just want to use your words to make a highly unscientific point. Something for us to think on.
Trump said:
Hate to say it but
a lot of them are good for pump and dump. I've seen the worst of worst, especially in North American culture, where the women
will turn on you and play the victim in 8 seconds if it benefits her. Even if you have evidence, they are
always the victim because they are born female.
One of my flaws is negative thinking. I've done a lot of work and a lot of research to get that straight. I've learned how to identify and define cognitive distortions that interfere with me enjoying life maybe as much as I could. I wanted to bring one to everybody's attention.
Overgeneralization: we come to a general conclusion based on a single incident or a single piece of evidence. If something bad happens only once, we expect it to happen over and over again. A person may see a single, unpleasant event as part of a never-ending pattern of defeat.
It seems like there is a lot of overgeneralization on this forum. Because something happened to them once or even many, many times, it kind of becomes the rule.
In Trump's statement, he says "a lot" of them are good for pump and dump. Okay, at least he didn't say "all" like many posters would. But "a lot" is still misleading. Would "a lot" mean more than half of single women are only good for pump and dump? That still seems to magnify the stats ("magnification" is a separate cognitive distortion).
The woman "will" turn on you. No, the sun WILL rise and WILL set. A woman may turn on you.
They are "always" the victim because they were born female. No, not always.
I don't mean to write a new-agey post here - I also apologize to the OP, maybe I should have made this its own thread - but I think there's something to the idea that thinking patterns lead to social problems.
And, let's face it, most guys on here have social problems. If we didn't, we wouldn't need a handbook for how to act.