what im taking away from responses is that (i) gyms are a sacred space, and (ii) the impulse to keep sacred spaces segregated is Strong (iii) maybe for Reasons???
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girlfriend has very patiently explained to me that light-heartedly stepping into the middle of an issue Fraught with intrasexual competition is likely to get me killed by a mob and I should not do that I think weve all learned something tonight
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this has nothing to do with intrasexual competition (why is that suddenly a buzzword? i missed something). it *comes across* as: - women doing yoga and yoga-related exercise - you plausibly-deniably insinuating salacious motive & thereby - abetting victim-blaming for harassment
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how on earth is noticing someone harassment
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it's simple: 1) the women are trying to get noticed (or are they?!). 2) it's ok for noticers to approach them. by normalizing step one people feel the justification for step 2. people do the imaginary second step in their heads and assume the worst of people who talk about step 1
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Replying to @willdoingthings @eigenrobot
to clarify my own arguments in this thread: the takeaway should *merely* be that some women enjoy being noticed sexually, not that we therefore throw all of our manners and social compromises out the window
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I read the poll as asking about self awareness and not implying anything further
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that's probably how the poll _should_ be read, and how i read it knowing eigen (also it wasn't for me), but there's no way in our memetic atmosphere to tweet such and expect people to not have their wrongthink alarms go off. mostly Concerned Dudes' alarms. that's all i'm sayin'
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Replying to @willdoingthings @eigenrobot
unrelated to the topic at hand but while I like your tweets at a distance my kneejerk response to you in conversations is I Gotta Fight That Guy, some kind of tone/affect thing on a monkey brain level so feel free to take my bickering with a grain of salt
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Replying to @selentelechia @eigenrobot
i appreciate the metacommunication. in this case i think my overconfidence in my interpretation made me overly strident
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