{"id":316,"date":"2012-11-14T10:58:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T05:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saravanan.org\/?p=316"},"modified":"2018-07-29T15:33:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T10:03:13","slug":"madonna-whore-and-generalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saravanan.org\/madonna-whore-and-generalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna-Whore and Generalization"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We are naturally inclined to associate only one idea with one person. \u00a0This\u00a0innocuous\u00a0cognitive limitation called generalization is hugely responsible for decoloring people and societies.<\/p>\n
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Sigmund Freud originally identified a condition wherein some men couldn’t get sexual arousal in a committed relationship. \u00a0He claimed that these men suffered from\u00a0Madonna-Whore Complex<\/a>,\u00a0wherein \u00a0they could see a woman either as a saintly Madonna or debased Whore. \u00a0Of course, social biologists (and even some psychologists) these days would tell you that these men suffer from the ennui\u00a0of monogamy. \u00a0But their argument can’t hold water when you consider that men marry certain type of women and sleep around with different type of women (women are no different either; but that is the topic for another post).<\/p>\n The reason that most people can’t see both a dependable partner and playful sex-fiend in a single person is due to the cognitive error of generalization. \u00a0We can associate only one image with one person. \u00a0Even when we look at our own self, we like to generalize!<\/p>\n