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AdeleneDawner comments on A Rationalist's Account of Objectification? - Less Wrong Discussion

43 Post author: lukeprog 19 March 2011 11:10PM

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Comment author: AdeleneDawner 20 March 2011 11:08:42PM 3 points [-]

"Kyriarchal advantage" is a bit of a mouthful, but it might be useful, especially if you want to differentiate between status that's granted as a result of being in a particular reference class vs. status that has been personally earned.

Comment author: Raemon 21 March 2011 12:47:56AM 0 points [-]

Thank you for that post. I'm not sure what "Kyriarchal" is supposed to mean, but the article made a lot of sense and shows how complicated it is.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 March 2011 12:50:36AM 4 points [-]

Well, "Kyrie" is generally translated as "Lord," so a kyriarchal system is presumably one which is ruled by the people who rule it.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 21 March 2011 01:18:31AM *  1 point [-]

Yep, basically that - any system where certain people intrinsically have more status/power than others is kyriarchal. Notably, most activism communities are still just as kyriarchal as mainstream society, except with regards to the specific issue that they're doing activism about. (Some of them are even kyriarchal with regards to their own issue - notably disability activism, where many activists focus on getting more power for people in situations like their own without much concern for other kinds of disabilities.)

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 21 March 2011 01:14:51AM 0 points [-]

Glad it's appreciated. I've been waiting for an opportunity to pull that out. ^.^