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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. Martin Daubney‏ @MartinDaubney 20 Oct 2016

      More proof women getting angrier? Now they are 12% more likely to get road rage. But why, do we think? >>pic.twitter.com/kLiQl3mLWq

      17 replies 7 retweets 15 likes
    2. Ben Kelly‏ @TheScepticIsle 20 Oct 2016
      Replying to @MartinDaubney

      Because they're over worked and over pressured.

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    3. Martin Daubney‏ @MartinDaubney 20 Oct 2016
      Replying to @TheScepticIsle

      And men aren't? Pressure and stress are gender-specific to women?

      4 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    4. Ben Kelly‏ @TheScepticIsle 20 Oct 2016
      Replying to @MartinDaubney

      But you'll find a lot of women trying to conform to the feminist ideal if being career driven while wracked by guilt because

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    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2016
      Replying to @TheScepticIsle @MartinDaubney

      Do feminists work longer hours? Not sure they do.

      3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    6. Ben Kelly‏ @TheScepticIsle 20 Oct 2016
      Replying to @HPluckrose @MartinDaubney

      You'd be hard pressed to give a more simplistic reading of what I said than that, well done.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2016
      Replying to @TheScepticIsle @MartinDaubney

      Sorry! I read your series. I don't think it is feminists who promote being career driven. 1/2

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2016

      .@TheScepticIsle @MartinDaubney In my experience, career-driven women (like men) more likely to be interested in real things than ideology.

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        2. Ben Kelly‏ @TheScepticIsle 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HPluckrose @MartinDaubney

          be career driven, & a sad undermining of the importance of the parental role. I know a lot of women who feel

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @TheScepticIsle @MartinDaubney

          Is there one? Its men we expect to keep working after kids. Women get much more choice re work/life balance

          3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
        4. Ben Kelly‏ @TheScepticIsle 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HPluckrose @MartinDaubney

          Yeah, I think being a mother is too often cariactured as the old "chained to the kitchen sink" nonsense

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @TheScepticIsle

          .@TheScepticIsle I'm sceptical of claims abt the suggestibility of women tho whether we're being brainwashed by beauty myths or feminism.

          4 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          .@TheScepticIsle Women are pressured to be thin,wear make up,be conciliatory,be mothers, be feminists,have careers! Protect them from ideas!

          1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
        7. Ben Kelly‏ @TheScepticIsle 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          yawn, just either misrepresenting me or you're not really understanding.

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        8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @TheScepticIsle

          No, no! I'm not suggesting u think anything as extreme as this. I'm talking abt this attitude where women are so suggestible

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        9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HPluckrose @TheScepticIsle

          Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Helen Pluckrose

          I got on my soapbox to explain why I'm concerned abt 'women are made to feel' arguments. Not abt u.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/789104818916700160 …

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          Helen Pluckrose @HPluckrose
          Replying to @HPluckrose
          The bloke I spoke to earlier was *not* arguing this. He just reminded me of the argument & that I meant to make this for future loons.
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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          .@TheScepticIsle @MartinDaubney Don't like idea that its feminism that makes women take an interest in intellectual/professional things 1/2

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          .@TheScepticIsle @MartinDaubney Its feminists like my mother who worked for women's right to access professions etc & I've much gratitude

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          .@TheScepticIsle @MartinDaubney But you don't need to subscribe to current feminist ideas to want to do something in the world.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        5. Ben Kelly‏ @TheScepticIsle 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HPluckrose @MartinDaubney

          Absolutely not, I'm not saying that. Having the freedom to choose is surely what is should all be about

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @TheScepticIsle @MartinDaubney

          Ideally, yes, but not just for women. Men shld get a say in work/life balance too.

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        2. Ben Kelly‏ @TheScepticIsle 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HPluckrose @MartinDaubney

          concentrate on being a parent. No one should ever feel that. Choice, that's what's important and empowering

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @TheScepticIsle @MartinDaubney

          This is true. Women are the ones who feel guilt. But we need to work on the guilt. Men are parents too.

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Martin Daubney‏ @MartinDaubney 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HPluckrose @TheScepticIsle

          British society needs to acknowledge and reward dads. Presently, it doesn't, much

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @MartinDaubney @TheScepticIsle

          It does! It needs to connect them to their children more re custody, paternity leave, flexible he's.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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        7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @chevalier__noir @MartinDaubney @TheScepticIsle

          This is a socially conservative idea.Father as distant figure providing money. Can do better

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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        9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2016
          Replying to @chevalier__noir @MartinDaubney @TheScepticIsle

          This is what happens when you come at a problem from one side only.

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