Incorrect comments on [SEQ RERUN] The Opposite Sex - Less Wrong

1 Post author: MinibearRex 18 June 2012 04:12AM

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Comment author: Incorrect 18 June 2012 04:23:37AM *  0 points [-]

Maybe that's just my incompetence... but I am skeptical that any man fully understands women or vice versa

Does this include people who change gender?

Comment author: TheOtherDave 18 June 2012 05:07:50AM 10 points [-]

I would say so, but then again I'm equally skeptical that any man fully understands men, or woman women, or person people.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 June 2012 11:54:19PM 5 points [-]

And one of the underlying premises of this blog is that people don't even understand themselves very well.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 19 June 2012 12:24:51AM 2 points [-]

They're all mad bar thee and me and thee's a little queer. Come to that, so is me.

Comment author: wedrifid 18 June 2012 04:32:41AM 5 points [-]

Does this include people who change gender?

Probably. People who change gender are significantly outside the norm with respect to how their gender instincts are wired. This introduces similar other-mind modelling difficulties that those of the other sex have. Of course, most men don't fully understand men and most women don't fully understand women either so the question is mostly moot.