Is Sir Michael Parkinson within his rights?

[flaviaritt]

Says men are funnier than women. He says, ‘It's a very contentious statement, but they're much better'.

My view is that, by the age of 85, if you think men are funnier than women, it’s just your opinion based on your experience and nobody should be getting riled up about it.

Reasonable?

@flaviaritt

Well, sorry, Pumper: we appear to be estranged again, since you have just called me a sexist and a racist (I am neither). No more answers for you!

You called me a fascist. Again demonstrating that the meaning of words is lost on you.

You have demonstrated very clearly that you have no problem with sexist and racist statements, your posts are here for all to see.

You’ve also demonstrated very clearly that you don’t know what free speech is or censorship.

So I think I’ll probably leave it there too. You don’t know what you’re taking about and you’re pathetically clinging to your offensive beliefs. I just feel sorry for you now.

@flaviaritt you should read “Bad Thoughts” by Jamie Whyte. You’ve committed quite a few transgressions against logical argument on this thread. For example, the fallacy of the right to one’s opinion. Whyte convincingly argues you don’t really have a right to your own opinions. And the idea that you do, besides being false, is forever invoked when it is irrelevant, even were it true.

Worth a read.

Whyte convincingly argues you don’t really have a right to your own opinions.

The fact Whyte convinced you, Piglet, offers me no assurances that he or she would convince me.

That’s not a particularly intellectually curious attitude, is it?

Perhaps not.

You have to let people both have and express opinions that you disagree with. Just as they have to let you disagree with them. Because who gets to be the arbiter of what is allowed? At the moment the phrase 'women have periods' is considered 'literal violence' by many people.

Depends on what the opinion is. If it's really abhorrent and from someone in power, it could be dangerous