1/I'm a woman who's experienced some very woman-defining things (patriarchal cult, sex work), and I find myself skeptical of cultural narratives around womanhood. The narratives feel like a collective illusion; we continually apply powerless narratives to women (e.g., your-
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wonder if there's a connection here between victimhood narratives and the kind of behavioral blank-slatism that characterizes some corners of the left.
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if people's negative feelings and experiences are easily broken down into Bad Things™ done by other people, then "call out and shame those people" is a solution. if it's a more complicated result of, e.g., genetic and subtle environmental factors, there's no clear solution.
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I think some of the narratives about groups I’m in are kinda true and some are mostly BS but I just feel weird talking about them because people have cried wolf on all of them
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Very glad to hear that you have become untrustworthy of that narrative. The idea that "consensus = objective truth/fact" (even in the sciences) is a particularly dangerous belief structure that far too many people hold.
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Nothing is unquestionable. Nothing. "Health" isn't a helpful metric, being too subjective itself. But "trust" is misplaced here. The majority of people who advance a narrative which is factually incorrect genuinely believe it.
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This is a money thread.
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I don’t know, but women are great.
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I’ve been leaning that way a lot since I read
@robinhanson ‘s book The Elephant in the Brain. I think the core update for me has been “Do More Counterfactuals” In this case the question could be “what would a group that altered its own public narrative for group gain look like?”Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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This thread of yours reminded me of narrative I read recently that I found incredibly powerful - https://nplusonemag.com/issue-35/essays/cashconsent/ …
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