Larks comments on LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dspeyer 25 November 2012 03:55:47AM 6 points [-]

I suspect the word "need" is highly relevant here. It was emphasized in the original after all. And "need" doesn't mean "this is one way" it means "the other ways don't work (or are really hard)". Being happy in singleness or attracting a partner with your super-sexy aikido and topology skills are not viable options. That's a very disempowering message.

As a test, let's rewrite the sentence without "need":

It will help you to be able to cook and keep a clean house, because this will make it easier to attract a husband, and having one will make your life more fun.

By your emotional reaction, is this version

Submitting...

Comment author: Larks 25 November 2012 08:45:12PM 8 points [-]

Poor question framing. Some people would say it was both equally offensive and not offensive, if they didn't think the former was offensive.

Comment author: dspeyer 25 November 2012 09:20:29PM 4 points [-]

Point.

If you did not find the original offensive, please do not vote at all. The purpose of the poll was to investigate why people found this original offensive. So if you did not, applying this introspective probe serves no purpose.

I would edit this into the post, but ISTR that editing posts with polls is bad.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 27 November 2012 12:06:21AM 3 points [-]

Also since the only way to see the results of a poll is to vote in it, it's considered polite to add a "don't want to vote but want to see the results option".

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