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Comment author: gensym 14 April 2010 03:41:18PM *  3 points [-]

The people that most object to paternalism are male nerds while the people that (I expect to) most approve of paternalism are conservative religious women.

Why those groups in particular? They are toward those ends, but I think I would have (maybe superficially/naively) said "radical feminists" and "conservative religious men", respectively. Don't necessarily disagree, but I'm very curious.

Comment author: wedrifid 14 April 2010 04:21:38PM *  0 points [-]

Those were just listed off the top of my head and biased towards groups and situations in which the advice is most relevant.

I suppose you may be right about he radical feminists with respect to paternalism, although I don't naturally distinguish between common behaviour patterns based on the genitalia of the actor. I'm going with Morendil's word here but to the extent that 'paternalism' implies 'when done by males' I would perhaps want to use a different word.