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

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 01 December 2012 12:52:30PM 5 points [-]

One way of increasing one's (felt?) status is by proving that one can get away with making other people feel bad.

Comment author: MugaSofer 01 December 2012 02:09:06PM 2 points [-]

Good point.

... but that's a rather different explanation to "some people do like to make others suffer [...] Catcalling is just a male way of doing that", isn't it?

Comment author: bbleeker 03 December 2012 06:02:34AM 2 points [-]

Yes, I think you are right, it probably is more about status.