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

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Comment author: t-E 05 October 2012 04:31:39PM 1 point [-]

(during the eridu radical-feminist debacle)

I don't know that 'debacle' and there seems to be a lot of content that could be part of it (you meant something in the comments of this same article apparently). If you think it is very relevant, i'd be grateful for one or several specific links to start from.

allowed me to notice that it seems highly likely that nearly all female feminists I've encountered in person with common knowledge of such were mostly of the kind that had one or few strong very bad near-type personal experiences with men, or many small but memorable such near-type experiences.

Where can i find out what "near-type" means here? This appears important enough to postpone my reply to this part.

because if the contrary were true, the feminist movement as a whole would be spectacularly self-hindering and shooting itself in the foot constantly, since such behavior as I've observed would basically cause very destructive conflict and wouldn't actually help further their goals.

I didn't mean it in that way. And i think the feminist movement, as a whole or in part, doesn't necessarily want to be lightly told by men what behaviour is or is not "furthering their goals" =P

(This instance seems to me like one in which you did so lightly, because it didn't seem highly relevant / on-topic.)

Comment author: TheOtherDave 05 October 2012 04:55:32PM 1 point [-]

i'd be grateful for one or several specific links to start from.

It's difficult, because many of eridu's comments were "deleted" by site mods who very much wanted that discussion to stop. I suspect your best bet is to browse their user page (where the comments remain visible) if you're really interested, but roughly speaking: eridu self-identified as a radical feminist who endorsed dismantling patriarchy, and ended up in a very confrontational series of exchanges with several LW contributors that were widely considered low-value.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 October 2012 05:25:34PM 1 point [-]

and ended up in a very confrontational series of exchanges with several LW contributors that were widely considered low-value.

I certainly considered them low value but to be fair the reception was mixed. Some went as far as to say it was the best and most informative discussion of any related concepts that they had seen on lesswrong. This confused some people but there was definitely a non-trivial minority who valued it.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 05 October 2012 05:38:19PM 1 point [-]

(nods) Yes, this is absolutely true, and worth saying explicitly. Thanks.

Comment author: t-E 05 October 2012 09:10:55PM 0 points [-]

Thank you. This contains some very interesting parts.