cousin_it comments on The Nature of Offense - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 23 July 2009 03:08:54PM *  7 points [-]

Makes sense. PUA comments imply that women should have low status, anti-PUA comments imply that people with PUA attitudes should be shunned by everyone, and so it goes on.

Comment author: pjeby 23 July 2009 06:58:23PM 9 points [-]

PUA comments imply that women should have low status

Sometimes, that's in the eye of the beholder, based on a stereotype. As I've pointed out repeatedly, there are entire schools (in the sense of "approaches" as opposed to "teaching organizations") which do not in the least imply that women should have low status, and some individual teachers or organizations that emphasize the need to liberate women from societally-imposed constraints on their sexuality... and even the least enlightened of PUA schools emphasize the need to ensure that a woman doesn't lose face or status within her social group!

That being said, there are certainly also individuals (including, unfortunately, some commenting here) who do appear to be impugning the status of women, and I very much disagree with that.