As paradoxical as it may sound to say this about a 12.5k-word essay, you need to read this, because it sums up what I hate about Scott Alexander much better than I canhttps://twitter.com/ElSandifer/status/1363170201232146433?s=19 …
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I'd like to thank her for reminding me how the whole viral fight with Scott Aaronson began that moved Scott Alexander to post a histrionic incel rant defending him It was a massive self-pitying response to a geek girl saying she'd been raped by geekspic.twitter.com/Ko7ytHtCL3
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It is absolutely fucking intolerable that we have to have the argument "Is patriarchy that bad?" at all, but especially when Scott pulls it out talking to a rando commenter who is a WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN RAPED
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Replying to @arthur_affect
there's a rhetorical trick to these kinds of protestations, too, where any woman who is willing to say she has been victimized by someone's patriarchal power is automatically a cut-and-dry "feminist" with all the boilerplate feminist positions
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When Kathy Forth posted her #MeToo
shortly before she died one of the commenters SAID TO HER FACE "A lot of us don't like feminists because they're irrational; if you tell us areas where you disagree with feminism so we know you're not one of them you might get a better response"
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