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Comment author: [deleted] 20 January 2011 02:25:50PM 1 point [-]

I was thinking of Roissy's website for both 9 and 11, actually. I used to read it, in the interest of "exposure to different views." Then I quit, reasoning that by now I understand his viewpoint pretty well, but the website continues to make me nauseous, and continues to prime me to emotionally believe things that I know are not true (e.g. "All men think I'm ugly!") At some point, the amount I'm learning is too small to justify other harms.

Comment author: Jack 20 January 2011 04:51:24PM 0 points [-]

At some point Roissy started having interns write a lot of the posts and they got more political and way less interesting while staying the same amount of offensive. That led me to stop reading altogether.

When I did read it it primed me to believe some troubling, false things too- though since I'm a straight male it was things like "I'm pathetic for not sleeping with more beautiful women". I don't regret reading enough to learn his perspective, though.