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JoshuaZ comments on How to Avoid the Conflict Between Feminism and Evolutionary Psychology? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 04 December 2012 11:37:39PM 3 points [-]

There are obviously no incompatibilities between reality and the moral claims of feminism.

That's false. The moral claim of feminism is that man and woman should be treated equally. Reality is that they aren't treated equally.

I think you are misinterpreting what was meant here. What seems to have been meant is that there's no conflict between what normatively feminism claims and the description of how reality actually behaves, not whether the feminist ideals have been accomplished. This is in contrast with for example how classical marxism makes claims about the nature of reality that are just demonstrably false about the nature of economics, and that's independent from any descriptive claim about how economies currently work.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 05 December 2012 06:25:05AM 9 points [-]

What seems to have been meant is that there's no conflict between what normatively feminism claims and the description of how reality actually behaves, not whether the feminist ideals have been accomplished. This is in contrast with for example how classical marxism makes claims about the nature of reality

Yes, they do. See for example all the comments talking about 'patriarchy'.