NancyLebovitz comments on I'd like to talk to some LGBT LWers. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 30 December 2011 02:50:11PM *  2 points [-]

Tentative theory for why those venues are apt to be toxic-- people really do make both routine and targeted efforts to lower each other's status, and this really does exact a cost to those with frequently lowered status, but it's crazy-making to focus a lot on other people lowering one's status.