the Aubrey de Grey thing in particular, but not just that, has me suspecting more that feminism's dual desiderata of sexual emancipation and reduced predation are rather incompatible in practice
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if you take if even further you might simply list the action spaces that are acceptable and sanction all actions outside of those spaces
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what is an ideal choice depends on context etc etc but one thing I am fairly confident in is that relatively powerful people ought to be held to a higher standard on the latter. for example "if you are the president and you fuck around with your intern you just are Toast"
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if you are powerful and you are not hewing to Wife of Caesar standards in your personal conduct i have to assume you are either a predator or a goddamn fool
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anyway I don't think this reasoning is tight and this is just a hunch but to the extent sexual liberation makes the strictest behavior standards more difficult to enforce, and reduces the extent to which a third party can verify whether any situation is Bad Actually,
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follow up writing on this more elegantly setting some related things out more clearly than I did i dont know that dwelling on gender differences to the extent the article does is really necessary but the choice/negotiation bits are often helpful. eg https://twitter.com/lndian_Bronson/status/1425620700962955274?s=19 …pic.twitter.com/kJV9O1dlme
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