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

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Comment author: wedrifid 12 September 2010 08:10:06AM *  3 points [-]

So, if I understand you, under your proposal, comments like this one would no longer appear here on LW?

One of the ancestors of that comment would probably be a link to the other site, yes.

Because people who cannot help making them would have another outlet?

I don't like the tone. You seem to be suggesting that wanting to make such a comment is a personal failing. I don't agree.

Comment author: Perplexed 12 September 2010 03:30:29PM -2 points [-]

What I meant to suggest is that a failure to foresee that such a comment would be offensive (to many people) would be a personal failing of one variety. And if you were able to make the prediction, but felt that the comment was so insightful and relevant to the discussion that it needed to be made regardless of who was offended, then that would be a different kind of personal failing. But what I suspect actually happened is that you set out deliberately to cause offense. And, yes, in the absence of provocation, I consider that a personal failing too.

The tone was indeed disapproving. I didn't expect you to like it. All I really expect is that you might take note of the disapproval. Please notice that at least some of your fellow males really dislike the culture of misogyny around here. And particularly, the smug way in which the victims get blamed for their own discomfort while the victimizers pretend to noble, but puzzled, tolerance.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 12 September 2010 04:20:04PM 4 points [-]

And particularly, the smug way in which the victims get blamed for their own discomfort while the victimizers pretend to noble, but puzzled, tolerance.

I'm guessing that they aren't pretending. They really don't know what they're doing.

Comment author: wedrifid 12 September 2010 05:25:03PM 3 points [-]

And particularly, the smug way in which the victims get blamed for their own discomfort while the victimizers pretend to noble, but puzzled, tolerance.

Surprisingly enough the usual victims don't seem to have made an appearance in this iteration of the discussion. Perhaps they have learned enough about the game to realise they are better served by just letting HughRistik handle the conversation with his usual combination of personal experience, education and level headed insight.

Comment author: timtyler 12 September 2010 05:01:59PM 0 points [-]

It doesn't look to me as though wedrifid did anything wrong in this case.