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 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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i mean, i feel like written consent + an offer of a very nice severance package if they decide they’re uncomfortable with the situation then that’d be pretty verifiably okay
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I can't shake the feeling this is a...of there a term for subtweet of reality?
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that just throws up the ancillary inherent trade-off between agency and hurt: many women tend to fly to powerful men like moths to a flame after all, often with similar results which doesn’t change that most such relationships are based on mutual enthusiasm
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point could easily be made that the actual aggrieved parties are spouses of the participants specifically and social virtue more generally but that rests real uneasy with regnant (and, in angloland instinctive) liberal norms
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Robin Hanson voice: most of why men *become* powerful is sex. I don't know the degree to which I endorse this take but it's certainly a component.
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