Lightwave comments on Sayeth the Girl - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Alicorn 19 July 2009 10:24PM

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Comment author: Lightwave 20 July 2009 06:35:59PM *  2 points [-]

In my experience, most women don't have a negative emotional response to men talking about "getting girls". They themselves talk about "getting a man". I suspect that the percentage of women are actually offended by this kind of talk is not large (10%-20%?).

Of course each such statement has to be evaluated separately, but for the word 'get' in this context specifically, I think the above applies.

Maybe we could gather a bunch of such statements and ask women whether they find each one offensive and why. We might be able to gather some statistical data.