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

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Comment author: mwengler 15 April 2013 07:32:23PM 3 points [-]

I guess that in certain situations it can be hard to rebuff someone who's maintained plausible deniability without feeling like an asshole.

This suggests that any woman is pretty much like any other woman, and it is the differing circumstance of the relationship that makes it hard for some women to leave abusive relationships.

I think it is extraordinarily more likely that some women get stuck in abusive relationships that other women would be out of there probably before abuse even started, let alone hanging around for the 3rd trip to the hospital.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 April 2013 06:11:15PM *  4 points [-]

This suggests that any woman is pretty much like any other woman, and it is the differing circumstance of the relationship that makes it hard for some women to leave abusive relationships.

That's not what I meant; I meant that I suspect that in certain cases leaving a relationship is psychologically harder than it may look from the outside, especially if the abuse was turned up slowly boiling frog-style. I didn't mean to say anything about the variances of distributions.