Oscar_Cunningham comments on Open thread, 11-17 March 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 24 March 2014 04:12:50PM 3 points [-]

There are some grounds for thinking that people who make comments supporting (in rough terms) feminist views, and more generally but also more weakly "non-Reactionary" views, are particularly likely to attract the attention of mass-downvoters.

This could make it sound like LessWrong is antifeminist. I'll just clarify that this is (very?) false. It's just that the people doing karmassassination are possibly antifeminist.

Comment author: Lumifer 24 March 2014 04:24:08PM 2 points [-]

Heh. On LW you can discuss whether feminism makes sense and how much -- that by itself is enough to label it as "antifeminist" in certain circles.

Comment author: gjm 24 March 2014 05:42:23PM 1 point [-]

For the avoidance of doubt: Yes, I agree. LW as such has no position on these issues; such evidence as I've seen suggests that the median LW participant is favourably disposed towards feminism[1] and politically liberal; one could easily get a different impression from reading LW, a fact with a variety of possible explanations.

[1] The definition of "feminist" and the question of who is entitled to call themselves feminist are subject to some controversy, hence my cautious wording.