komponisto comments on More art, less stink: Taking the PU out of PUA - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 11 September 2010 04:51:39PM 4 points [-]

(And it's interesting how so far no one has noticed the parenthetical sentence at the end of my comment.)

The one about sexual jealousy? I thought it was foolish, but not in a way directly relevant to the part I was most motivated to critique, so I let it be. Women experience sexual jealousy too; implying that it's the special province of men has the weird consequence of implying that women would all rather be some flavor of poly, which is false.

Comment author: komponisto 11 September 2010 04:54:34PM *  2 points [-]

Women experience sexual jealousy too; implying that it's the special province of men

It didn't imply that, any more than the earlier part implied that men never reject women.

The proposal was that male sexual jealously is analogous to female mate selectivity in the specific way I was discussing.