thomblake comments on Of Exclusionary Speech and Gender Politics - Less Wrong

62 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 July 2009 07:22AM

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Comment author: thomblake 23 July 2009 07:58:23PM *  2 points [-]

None of these things are any more offensive or objectifying to women than public speaking classes are to audiences.

Not that I'm arguing a normative point here, but I've always gotten the same negative vibe from public speaking classes (and rhetoric) as from marketing/PUA. But then, I've often been known to disregard relevant social skills.