You could summarize the dominant concept as: men have always treated women as subhuman enemies, and now it is women’s chance- their duty, really- to claim their proper role at the center of things. As such any concern for men’s needs or opinions is by nature a form of treason.
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Replying to @TheAgeofShoddy @ShoesSensible and
do you think you could explain how this story is load-bearing in your life? how would you have to change if it weren't true?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @ShoesSensible and
In itself, it isn’t; I don’t believe it’s an accurate/useful idea. But I do think it describes the views of ~75% of women who I’ve had occasion to speak to about it. Yes, regional effects, etc, I’m the first one to note that growing up in NYC is like growing up on woke twitter.
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Replying to @TheAgeofShoddy @ShoesSensible and
but how would you have to act differently if it weren't true or important?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @ShoesSensible and
You’re reading it! This is why I insist now on speaking of these things openly. You can’t imagine how hard it is, but how necessary, to do that after who knows how many years of feeling required to ignore what I could see and lie about what I knew to protect others.
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Replying to @TheAgeofShoddy @ShoesSensible and
I'm not sure we're understanding one another
What I'm trying to ask is: how would you have to change if you didn't have to be afraid of women hurting you?1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @eigenrobot @ShoesSensible and
I don’t fear them hurting me. This is why it’s hard for me to be understood: there is nothing in this world that anyone can do to me to hurt me worse than I already have been. What I worry about is hurting them. And I’ve lived in a world that tells me that everything I do, does.
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Replying to @TheAgeofShoddy @ShoesSensible and
Do you believe that you are?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @ShoesSensible and
Who knows. At some point believing that everything can hurt you means that everything does, justified or not. I’ve been having the “internet dating is a tool of oppression” and “make sure you never block a woman’s path to an exit” and etc. debates so long I’ve gotten lost.
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Replying to @TheAgeofShoddy @eigenrobot and
You know how this site seems to declare some new completely innocuous thing a mortal sin every week? My entire life has been like that. Twitter seems comparatively *more normal* because here not everyone agrees with those sudden reversals, and there’s greater emotional restraint.
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awww buddy I have some thoughts first one: did you read comment 171 when it came out in 2014? https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2091#comment-326664 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot @ShoesSensible and
Nope. I am trying now, but... well I am trying.
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Replying to @TheAgeofShoddy @eigenrobot and
It reminds me of Scott Alexander I suppose, in that it has a similar scared-of-itself fairy tale quality where eventually by aid of unseen forces the protagonist becomes a real boy, and celebrates having held back the tide of hate. I’d have seen more of myself in it 10 years ago.
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