Not what I said but interesting interpretation. I said he is purposely ignoring nuance with his statement and everyone is blindly agreeing
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Not blindly, no. The problem of this kind of double standards is one that many have addressed. Here I do:pic.twitter.com/EvI47kn5D5
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We can all think of reasons to explain reasonably why any individual man's ideas might be engaged w differently than any individual woman's
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But the problem of women's ideas not being as open to critique as men's *because they are a woman* is what is being addressed here.
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From my perspective, it undermines me as a serious thinker, as an academic writer, as a social commentator if I must be humoured coz female.
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And if you're reading all of that into his tweet you are looking at a different message than I am. I certainly haven't humored you just coz
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Tweet says that people who praise you for saying that a man is making unsubstantiated claims will object if u make same criticism of woman
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And that is the nicest version of how people usually "call out" women for unsubstantiated claims. Ignoring this nuance is my issue
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No, it isn't. We can also talk about the problem I have raised which is undermining & disempowering women in academia & in feminism.
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We can have that conversation but it is different from the conversation we are currently having and thus only tangentially related
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As I have said, I think it clearly was the point and am bemused that you don't see this. But this is an impasse so let's leave it here.
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