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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 27

      Can we please stop pretending that blank slatists are revolutionaries pushing against reactionary biological essentialists who dominate society? You lot have been the orthodoxy for at least half a century now. You are the reactionaries defending the status quo against change.

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 27

      Your occasional reminder that men are not the default humans and that women are not necessarily victims of cultural conditioning or doing life wrong if we don't make the exact same choices as men do in the exact same numbers.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 27

      If you want to convince women we should favour jobs which focus on things rather than people or that we should care less about work/life balance & more about raw income, at least put forward a better argument than 'that's what men do.' Otherwise, accept women's choices as valid.

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        1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 28

          We would do well to remember that society actually needs health care professionals, educators and social workers every bit as much as engineers, physicists and miners.

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        2. Hesitant Spookyphant‏ @Trunkulent May 27
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I agree with this, but on the other side you get people using it as justification for any claim because "biology." How do you revoke that without them calling you a constructivist or whatnot?

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        3. Kareem Sabri‏ @kareem_sabri May 27
          Replying to @Trunkulent @HPluckrose

          Do you really get people doing that though? No one (of any serious repute) *actually* claims things like "women aren't good at math".

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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 27
          Replying to @kareem_sabri @Trunkulent

          They're not of serious repute, no, but they do exist. They descend on me regularly and tell me women should stay home & have babies and men should be the breadwinners. I just wish blank slatists were equally derided as cranks.

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        5. Kraig‏ @kraigeous May 28
          Replying to @HPluckrose @Trunkulent

          Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems like the industrial revolution is a likely historical-cultural source of the dichotomy of male breadwinner vs female homemaker. Before then, both tended to work more or less from home in “Ma and Pa” industries, e.g., as farmers and/or artisans. No?

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        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 28
          Replying to @kraigeous @kareem_sabri @Trunkulent

          There was still a strong division of labour among agricultural communities with men being out in the field & going to market if more than subsistence and women processing the produce & taking care of house, making clothes etc.

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        7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 28
          Replying to @HPluckrose @kraigeous and

          Staying indoors was still an expectation of women. Lots of sermons telling them there was no need to go out and also expected to be at church more while men got some leeway coz needed to work in daylight hours.

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        8. Kraig‏ @kraigeous May 28
          Replying to @HPluckrose @kareem_sabri @Trunkulent

          Sermons are interesting source material. As idealizing discourses they testify as much to what was not happening as to the actual lived reality. And it may be argued that the idiosyncratic social mores would tend to get more pulpit time than the realities taken for granted.

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        9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 28
          Replying to @kraigeous @kareem_sabri @Trunkulent

          Yes, I know. This is what I do. I have argued this in recent essays too.

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        2. EmmyJewel‏ @Emmyjewel May 28
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          U didn’t add your brilliant last sentence though. Please do, I want to rt the thread!pic.twitter.com/OCucvqGmic

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        3. Adam Kern  💀‏ @KernNuts May 28
          Replying to @Emmyjewel @HPluckrose

          Isn't this supposed to be sexist rhetoric?

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        4. EmmyJewel‏ @Emmyjewel May 28
          Replying to @KernNuts @HPluckrose

          Who knows. I can’t keep up

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        5. John Dose‏ @_John_Dose_ May 28
          Replying to @Emmyjewel @KernNuts @HPluckrose

          Are there really Blank Slateist's still out there? The final nail isn't in the coffin yet?

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        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 28
          Replying to @_John_Dose_ @Emmyjewel @KernNuts

          They're very much alive and kicking! It dominates the social sciences and humanities.

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        1. Kareem Sabri‏ @kareem_sabri May 27
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Being a workaholic is stupid anyway. I think men only do it because we're in a brutal competition with other men for socioeconomic status.

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        1. insertwittynamehere‏ @ihavebestwordz May 27
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          If only our society valued caring professions the highest in respect to status and reward, then it would be men who would want equal numbers in those professions. The battle shld be about how we value professional activities, not abt getting women to conform to patriarchal values

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        1. Martin Kaye‏ @gsmp_martin May 28
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          I'm in love with this tweet.

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        1. JoshN‏ @joshnaa2gez May 29
          Replying to @HPluckrose @SelinaDavis73

          Why does feminism so often promote in women the worst parts of masculinity?

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        1. Not very PC‏ @Real_Adam_A May 28
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          So you are saying pay gap feminists are text book misogynists? 🤷🏽‍♂️

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