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Comment author: [deleted] 11 January 2014 11:12:49AM 2 points [-]

but we cannot do that, because "ordinary guy" (and "normal woman") is a strong political identity too.

If everyone has a strong political identity, then the phrase “strong political identity” is meaningless.

Also ... I wonder what a person whose maps of the social world were really "no better than random" would look like.

Exactly. Reversed stupidity is not intelligence.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 11 January 2014 07:11:20PM 1 point [-]

Let me try to unpack it a bit:

People who do not claim a named gender-related political identity (like "feminist" or "MRA") nonetheless typically explicitly teach and reinforce ideas about gender ... and get defensive about them in pretty much the same way that people get defensive about political ideas.

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