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

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Comment author: MileyCyrus 05 October 2012 04:14:16PM 1 point [-]

It's just the most common situation (>50%, actually) that occurs whenever I end up in some kind of social setting where it becomes established as common knowledge that one of the women is a Feminist.

You're referring to meatspace situations?

Comment author: DaFranker 05 October 2012 04:30:14PM 0 points [-]

Yes. Meatspace-only for what I describe in this particular thread.

I've only had three cyberspace interactions with "ID'd-as" female feminists, or so they claimed, and two of these were both trollish and obviously a one-sided preacher throwing regular rage at The Internet with whatever topic they had in mind, while the other was, well, at the time already a much better rationalist than I was, wasn't primarily a "feminist" so much as having that as one of her colors, and is otherwise a subject I'm not quite ready to discuss on LessWrong (a melancholy story of grief and loved ones).

Basically, they're not even valid data points as far as I can tell, for reasons that might not be clear or obvious for the third case but would probably require much more detail than I'm willing to go into to explain why.

Comment author: MileyCyrus 05 October 2012 05:01:56PM 3 points [-]

I guess I've had the opposite experience you had.

With the exception of a certain professor, all the feminists I've met in meatspace have been friendly people who are open to discussing their beliefs with skeptical men. If a man describes how he's been hurt by gender prejudice, they will listen sympathetically. On the other hand, the anti-feminists I've met are far less likely to listen to women talk about misogyny, and will often try and shut down debate. It's kind of infuriating actually. This is why I refer to myself as a feminist whenever there is an anti-feminist in the room.