read it, honestly it just sounds like he's a person who gets carried away and believes whatever he's carried with. Plus lots of charisma and energy.
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The critique seems even more interesting when read with Scott Alexander's review of his book, where he calls him a 'prophet'
slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/26/boo
Huh, just noticed there's that uncertainty reduction thing again
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Good backgrounder. Would love a similar read on why his approach and content seems to engage so many right now.
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I have been thinking about that a lot and am not quite sure.
Part of it is his professorial manner combined with him validating far right ideas.
But his appeal to young men is an interesting puzzle.
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Thx! I do not understand in depth the attitudes towards women in North America, much less the three items you lay out. The idea that a) everyone in a gender has the b) same biological contrast with other genders which c) consistently drives difference in abilities etc is weird.
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That's overstating it. People are mostly alike. Small differences in the median lead to major diffs at the extremes. It's not diffs in abilities, but interests. I did school system stats for years; women do better than men. All sorts of reasons to empower women so why negate men?
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"The number one solution to reversing global warming is empowering girls & women" twitter.com/mwiik/status/8
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The main problem I see with asserting toxic masculinity, patriarchy etc. as almost universal forces, is that all it's really doing is turning the sock inside out before you put it back on.
It's nothing different than how men portrayed women to justify millennia of oppression.