Alicorn comments on Sayeth the Girl - Less Wrong
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Sure why not. I'll use the numbering there would have been if the number 1 wasn't duplicated so it'll still make sense if you fix that.
My views on gender and feminism in general have slid substantially over the past six years. I don't have particularly good memories of what I was thinking in 2009. I do still think making a crack about your suspicion that I worry about my age is icky.
I doubt very much that my OP is a substantial improvement over other posts on the same topic; like most of my writing from that long ago I both find it vaguely embarrassing from a quality standpoint and refuse on principle to delete it. It is notable principally for its location (on LW as opposed to somewhere else). I did not extensively poll other women on LW before writing my OP and don't remember receiving any significant private messages from same, so I have no particularly special insight into what other women feel on the matter. The rest of this question seems badly worded to me; I'm not sure what you mean.
I have not received a PM from you.
What an... interestingly loaded... and opaque... way to phrase a question. I have actually thought about the plight of short men before. You're about the same height as my dad, and he brings up the (entirely genuine, even) discrimination faced by short men on a pretty routine basis, although as far as I know he doesn't directly have a problem with my mother being taller than him. But I'm not sure why you brought it up. People being taller than you happens too much? I'm only an inch taller than you if I stand up straight; people being taller than me happens about the same amount, I'd imagine. The surrounding culture is different for men and women here but you talk as though it's inherently unpleasant to be short. Do I think culture, in general/on this specific point, can be changed? Well, we aren't currently hunter-gatherers, so probably culture can change. Did this post help? I don't really know. Is my current behavior now in 2015 helping? Again, I don't know; anyway I've backed off from LW proper in favor of following rationalist tumblr and hanging out with the rationalist meatspace crowd. (The rationalist meatspace crowd has a decent number of women in it, especially if you look places like CfAR's staff.)
The only coherent thing I can extract from this paragraph is "Have you ever felt those gender wars to be silly?", the rest of it seems almost Markov-chain-like in its relevance. Yes, I have often found gender wars to be silly.
This isn't a question, this is a ramble with an unhelpful flower analogy and poor coherence. Is what I think.