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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 Oct 20

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Helen Pluckrose

      As someone who was until recently very afraid of public speaking, I still object to singling out women as fearful in this way and making special allowances for them. We've spent many years arguing that we can cope with the public sphere as well as men.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/1053883948659544064 …

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      Helen Pluckrose @HPluckrose
      Replying to @HPluckrose @Player518214 and 4 others
      Or if we are going to cater to people who are afraid of speaking rather than allowing them to decide whether to push themselves or remain unengaged, let's not make it "women" we protect from this. We're overlapping populations and many women are more outspoken than many men.
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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20

      People who want to engage in open debates, events but find themselves too nervous really need to address that rather than be enabled to avoid it. I spent £500 on a weekend public speaking course & it helped a lot tho not as much as doing it repeatedly.

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20

      You lot mostly don't know how afraid I was of public speaking a year ago. Well, some of you do. Poor @christianjbdev got the worst of it and ended up having to talk me down from backing out. Well, scolding me about being ridiculous mostly.

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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20

      And @ConceptualJames had a go at it in his usual style which involved maths & a mercilessly logical argument. Step 1) We raise the proposition that you are not capable of doing this panel. Step 32) We find that the belief that you are not capable of doing this panel is false.

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    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20

      And @PeterBoghossian provided support by having me talk at him over Skype and texting me "You are awesome! You got this!" at regular intervals. And @IonaItalia offered sympathy & offered to lend me her personality which loves public speaking if we could figure out how.

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20

      And I STILL had to go to doctor due to panic attacks & insomnia and get short-term medication and I STILL say that we shouldn't coddle people but encourage them to push through it or not and we especially shouldn't coddle by gender & define women as fearful in this way.

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    7. Gillian Dempsey‏ @catedempsey Oct 20
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Sorry about the panic attacks and the insomnia. It used to be that public speaking was far less stressful, but now there's the risk of disagreement being manifest as physical violence instead of reason. I'd save the money on lessons and hire a bodyguard!

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20
      Replying to @catedempsey

      I was much less afraid of being attacked than I was of having a panic attack, hyperventilating and passing out coz of all the people looking at me! In the end, I was panicking about panicking & it all got so ridiculously meta that I had to go to the doctor!

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        1. Gillian Dempsey‏ @catedempsey Oct 21
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          That sounds awful. I have read that many people fear public speaking more than death. I'm more scared of death. Don't picture your audience naked - it is probably some form of assault. Congratulations for overcoming what is a common and serious phobia.

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