polymathwannabe comments on The Fable of the Burning Branch - Less Wrong

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 10 February 2016 05:06:32PM 5 points [-]

Attempting to apologize or beg does not earn you respect from women or SJ

You seem to pressupose a quite peculiar definition of respect. Also, you're generalizing too much about what's inside women's heads.

The boy's mistake in the story was begging rather than being assertive.

The conditions in the story were rigged so that he had no other course of action open except begging. That's one of the 5,429,236 reasons why it fails as a metaphor.