Scott Adams is a cowardly douchebag.

[Ravenpoe]

For a "certified genius," he has a knack for taking what could be reasonable observation and stating it in the dumbest way possible.

 

[Philosopher B.]

No doubt you have noticed an alarming trend in the news. Powerful men have been behaving badly, e.g. tweeting, raping, cheating, and being offensive to just about everyone in the entire world. The current view of such things is that the men are to blame for their own bad behavior. That seems right. Obviously we shouldn’t blame the victims. I think we all agree on that point. Blame and shame are society’s tools for keeping things under control.

The part that interests me is that society is organized in such a way that the natural instincts of men are shameful and criminal while the natural instincts of women are mostly legal and acceptable. In other words, men are born as round pegs in a society full of square holes. Whose fault is that? Do you blame the baby who didn’t ask to be born male? Or do you blame the society that brought him into the world, all round-pegged and turgid, and said, “Here’s your square hole”?

The way society is organized at the moment, we have no choice but to blame men for bad behavior. If we allowed men to act like unrestrained horny animals, all hell would break loose. All I’m saying is that society has evolved to keep males in a state of continuous unfulfilled urges, more commonly known as unhappiness. No one planned it that way. Things just drifted in that direction.

This is all very clever, because rape is not mentioned specifically in the sentence ‘society is organized in such a way that the natural instincts of men are shameful,’ but through all the talk of ‘bad behavior’ and that men are naturally ‘unrestrained horny animals,’ he manages to hint at saying something controversial, without actually spelling it out. At this point, I can only guess that reading the furor people get into over the weird shit he writes is one of the ways he gets his rocks off. I guess recycling the same safe brand of office humor for decades* while being a shit boss himself at a restaurant no longer does it?

To be fair, if a man meets and marries the right woman, and she fulfills his needs, he might have no desire to tweet his meat to strangers. Everyone is different. But in general, society is organized as a virtual prison for men’s natural desires. I don’t have a solution in mind. It’s a zero sum game. If men get everything they want, women lose, and vice versa. And there’s no real middle ground because that would look like tweeting a picture of your junk with your underpants still on. Some things just don’t have a compromise solution.

This is A., patently ridiculous, and B., somewhat sexist. Men are not dogs. I’ve got a solution to people tweeting their junk, or doing anything else sexually related – it’s called restraint, and good judgment. A lot of people from all genders and age groups lack those qualities; it has little to do with having balls as opposed to ovaries. And I think it's funny that he seems to think men are in a sexual straight-jacket within our society, considering the traditional difference in views of promiscuous men vs. promiscuous women.

Long term, I think science will come up with a drug that keeps men chemically castrated for as long as they are on it. It sounds bad, but I suspect that if a man loses his urge for sex, he also doesn’t miss it. Men and women would also need a second drug that increases oxytocin levels in couples who want to bond. Copulation will become extinct. Men who want to reproduce will stop taking the castration drug for a week, fill a few jars with sperm for artificial insemination, and go back on the castration pill.

That might sound to you like a horrible world. But the oxytocin would make us a society of huggers, and no one would be treated as a sex object. You’d have no rape, fewer divorces, stronger friendships, and a lot of other advantages. I think that’s where we’re headed in a few generations.

Ah, Adams’ usual jokey ‘predictions’ which aren’t actually funny at all.

Such a tool.

*And I say this as someone who has bought Dilbert collections in the past
Added at: 11:09

In the past if someone insulted your family you would give them a poke in the nose to train them on their unacceptable behavior. Now you'd get sued/arrested. Men no longer have a place in the world to be men - we're nothing more than stronger women.

If being a man is about the ability to commit physical violence without legal repercussion, I guess I don't mind being a 'stronger woman'.