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CronoDAS comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong
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Is that true? What are the incentives and rewards? Are there circumstances under which this is a bad idea - for example, do relative ages or relative social position matter? (For example, what if the woman in question is your mother, teacher/professor, employer, or some other authority figure with power over you?) Are there also incentives for men to treat other men as children, or for women to treat men or other women as children?
I wonder if adults treat children like children merely because of the benefits they reap by doing so.
Sometimes that's definitely the case. At other times it really does appear to be for real and concrete neutral reasons.
I'm pretty sure he's trying to say basically the same thing as this OB post (specifically the part from "Suppose that middle-class American men are told..." on).