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Comment author: TimS 02 January 2013 03:20:56PM 0 points [-]

But she didn't.

I thought she was saying it was a consent problem. The specific example involves a man, but I didn't see her as saying that women can't violate consent. In fact, her mocking of the January issue of Cosmo magazine includes calling out glamorizing of female-perpetrator identity theft.

More generally, can't an advocate notice that the plurality or majority of the perpetrators of this type of problem are male, even while calling for a better social dynamic for both sexes? I don't think the blogger would disagree.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 03 January 2013 03:19:33AM 4 points [-]

I was in the past a regular reader of her blog, until an incident (inspired in large part by a rebuke authored by me, in point of fact) which is still referred to on other feminist blogs as evidence of her... unbalanced perspective, to put it politely. Holly is not a rationalist by any stretch of the imagination, and her blog is very "Our team versus their team."

Comment author: TimS 03 January 2013 03:29:45AM *  0 points [-]

You mean this? Sorry - don't agree with your position.

Potential downvoters - would you rather a long argument or a polite expression of disagreement that doesn't spawn into a huge debate?

Comment author: OrphanWilde 03 January 2013 03:48:10AM 3 points [-]

That title looks correct, but I do not visit her blog anymore as a rule - I was asked to leave, and I won't violate that - so I'm not 100% certain. It wasn't my position in the argument; the worst apparently came after I had left, when she started attacking random commenters. AFAIK my main role in the debacle was getting her riled up. My information on what happened after I left is secondhand, however, so I can't point you at specific comments.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 January 2013 05:45:04AM 2 points [-]

This may come back to haunt me re: prisoner's dilemma but- I don't respect rules that have vanishingly small chance of negative consequence if violated.

Surely she's not monitoring IP addresses to call you out in public that you visited her blog when you said you didn't? And even if she were- proxies! Google cache!

Comment author: OrphanWilde 04 January 2013 06:06:03AM 3 points [-]

I'm an egoist, specifically of Objectivist bent; my rules exist and are followed for my sake, not hers. And I don't stay where I'm not wanted; I can go where I am wanted, and it will be both a more productive use of my time, and more emotionally healthy for me.