eridu comments on The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 12 September 2012 06:01:12PM *  0 points [-]

This has traditionally been a very divisive point within radical feminism, and it typically divides the discussion into transphobic social-constructionist radical feminists (like the source of my original infographic) and neo-essentialist post-feminists.

Personally, I came to radical (pro-)feminism from the feminism mainstream within anarchist culture, which is more pro-transgenderism (and therefore essentialist), and I haven't fully came to a conclusion on this specific issue. It doesn't help that neither of the two sides really care much for empiricism (outside of horrible "look at this fMRI" type stuff).

A comrade of mine told me that these are good articles on this topic, and while I haven't yet read them, I know the author to be very good at getting that comrade (who is more tumblr-feminist third-wave-y) and I to agree, so they probably would clarify my position on this and maybe yours:

Edit: It's annoying that less wrong's reddit instance doesn't hyperlink raw links, but I dislike hiding what I'm linking to, so... sorry if you're too lazy to cut and paste, I suppose.

Comment author: ErikM 12 September 2012 08:20:11PM 10 points [-]

This has traditionally been a very divisive point within radical feminism, and it typically divides the discussion into transphobic social-constructionist radical feminists (like the source of my original infographic) and neo-essentialist post-feminists.

http://www.xkcd.com/1095/

Comment author: CharlieSheen 12 September 2012 08:19:00PM *  7 points [-]

"This has traditionally been a very divisive point within radical feminism, and it typically divides the discussion into transphobic social-constructionist radical feminists and neo-essentialist post-feminists."

I'm just wondering would you mind reading Moldbug? I want to see the resulting philosophy for the lulz.

Comment author: thomblake 12 September 2012 06:03:54PM *  2 points [-]

It's annoying that less wrong's reddit instance doesn't hyperlink raw links, but I dislike hiding what I'm linking to, so... sorry if you're too lazy to cut and paste, I suppose.

That's easily fixed - just write the link like [url](url).

Comment author: [deleted] 12 September 2012 06:08:13PM -1 points [-]

Done, thanks.