An underrated dynamic in the gender wars is that not all conversational tactics are open to everybody. In particular, tactics men constantly use on each other, and laugh off, are seen as crushingly emasculating and humiliating when used by women on men.
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women facepalm six times as hard when a woman says something dumb than when a man does but I think it’s not just percentages
like even in gender representative environments like twitter female gender seems to impute to you more than male gender
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It’s a minority representation effect. I experienced that with other fob Indians saying dumb, parochial shit. Took me a while to fire myself from the job of representing “Indian”. Like a semester. Interestingly power gradients matter. Americans abroad dont mind looking stupid.
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I was actually wondering if it was the same for that
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