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bogus comments on Open thread, Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: FrameBenignly 27 January 2015 06:32:52AM *  4 points [-]

I can just imagine how this would've gone over if the gender was reversed.

I'd like to tell younger women who have had problems with acquiring the AWSS that they need to think about these other consequences of its absence when they reach middle age. In a rational society (lots of luck getting that, despite what you LessWrong people fantasize about), parents wouldn't leave their girls' development of the AWSS to the haphazard. When they can see that boys don't find their daughters sexually attractive in their given state, the girls need some kind of intervention to correct that right away.

Also, I have a suspicion that advancedatheist is abusing the karma voting system in some manner because he went from -13 to 0 in a matter of a few hours.

Comment author: bogus 28 January 2015 04:29:19PM *  2 points [-]

Well, what is the best AWSS? We don't seem to know much about this, and it strikes me as a very interesting question. Publications like COSMO try to provide women with useful advice but they are often ridiculed as useless, even a lot more than PUAs are (I guess the male equivalent would be mainstream "men's" magazines). And there is no real female equivalent to the male PUA community - female PUAs exist but they're such a tiny niche that we know almost nothing about the quality of their advice.