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My impression was that his relationship with feminism is largely shaped by that thing where you criticize your own side more than the opponent's and don't bother to explain all the ways in which it's good because they feel so obvious to you. So then he comes off as anti-feminist.
Hmm no that doesn't feel right. I agree he's not actually sexist/misogynistic/etc. I don't think he's a bad person or anything. I do think he's not engaging well with some of the ways other people are also trying to do good.
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Scott definitely seems to me to be anti-the-current-feminist-movement (even though like most people he agrees that marital rape should be illegal and women should be able to have credit cards and so on). Like, what *current* feminist issues has he expressed support for?
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Comparatively, Scott is uncontroversially an effective altruist, and no one would, reading his articles, mistake him for an anti-EA person because of how much he criticizes EA.
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My impression in general is that he's not on side with feminism because he has had bad experiences with some feminists and it makes it very hard for him to engage with feminist ideas in a non-adversarial way, despite probably being broadly on the same side in what he wants.
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