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

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 29 November 2012 04:21:39AM 3 points [-]

For example, J. Edgar Hoover was born in 1895 (and was a cross-dresser).

The cross-dressing think was probably a black legend.

There's no plausible argument that second-wave feminism (circa 1960s) or third-wave feminism (circa 1990s) had any effect on his upbringing.

In any case a single anecdote isn't strong evidence and it's pretty clear that the amount of cross dressing and other gay/trans phenomena has gone up since the 1960s and the 1990s.