fubarobfusco comments on LW Women Submissions: On Misogyny - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 11 April 2013 11:57:59PM 8 points [-]

I'm not sure what you mean by demean women. Do you mean that to even make truthful observations that could make a woman feel bad is wrong?

No.

Some descriptive claims associated with the PUA memeplex seem to come with an addendum that could be crudely rendered as "... and therefore, women are your inferiors." Women are manipulable; therefore, you have the right to manipulate them. Women desire approval, therefore, you should manipulate their desire for approval to get sex out of them that they may otherwise not want to have. And so on.

(To make a geek analogy: "Their server has a security vulnerability; therefore, they are morons and you should hack them and take all their stuff.")

I'm not sure what treated as baby makers means.

Perhaps I should have said "treated merely as baby-makers"; as opposed to thinkers, dreamers, desirers, planners, possessors of values and goals, colleagues, rivals, partners — you know, people.

I don't know what your footnote references.

Blaaah ... that's because I removed the sentence it was a footnote to, and didn't remove the footnote. Edited.