NancyLebovitz comments on How to deal with someone in a LessWrong meeting being creepy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 09 September 2012 05:57:25AM 2 points [-]

Define "shown up"

Appeared with sufficient force to make an impression.

This is admittedly subjective (and probably incomplete-- I don't read everything at LW), but what I saw was probably mid-range PUA-- neither grossly misogynistic nor obviously benign-- combined with claims that there are excellent elements in PUA and I shouldn't stereotype it by its worst.

Comment author: ikrase 03 February 2013 06:19:47PM 0 points [-]

The stuff that's particularly benign in PUA is also the stuff that PUA has no monopoly on.

But yeah, I think that the true rejection is just how Quirrel-ish it is. Not harmful, not unprincipled, but just how it seems to be written for the sake of sexytimes alone.