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

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Comment author: cata 27 November 2012 08:01:02PM *  1 point [-]

Experiences in which women describe things that I don't ever experience or witness (e.g. catcalls, poor treatment based on gender, personal harassment) or in which women perceive something in light of their gender in a way that I don't (e.g. predominance of males in art, male-centric language, safety in public spaces.)

Comment author: MugaSofer 27 November 2012 08:22:13PM 0 points [-]

You really had no experience/empathy with sexism? Huh. Maybe this is more useful than I thought.

Comment author: cata 27 November 2012 09:30:16PM 2 points [-]

I certainly had much less empathy a few years ago, prior to paying attention to these kind of posts. I wasn't aware how common the former kind of experience was, and I didn't notice (and still don't) a lot of the latter kind.