Most students in HPMOR are silly when not under pressure (witch counterexample: Penelope Clearwater). They’re also named after fan artists with upcoming cameos. Who tend to be female.
And yes, there’s a Gossipy Hens trope in HPMOR, the converse of which is the horrible dating advice dispensed by males with their parody PUA community, both of whom are there because someone has to horribly misinterpret the situation, and which are gender-correlated because… well, because that part is realistic and there are things in HPMOR that happen because that’s what the prior causal forces output, not necessarily because that’s how I freely decided the outcome should be.
This is making me realize that these discussions tend to not have a sense of scale. I’m not crazy about the undifferentiated gossiping mass (and it’s reached the point where I’m not having as much fun with it—it was funny the first time or three), but I don’t think it’s a huge flaw. It’s entertaining to see the gossip get more rationalist, but not in a way that seems to help it be more accurate.
I hadn’t noticed there was a parody PUA community, it just seemed as though there was occasional bits of PUA stuff showing up now and then. Definitely time to reread.
Maybe it matters that the girls in MOR are silly even when they aren’t under pressure.
Most students in HPMOR are silly when not under pressure (witch counterexample: Penelope Clearwater). They’re also named after fan artists with upcoming cameos. Who tend to be female.
And yes, there’s a Gossipy Hens trope in HPMOR, the converse of which is the horrible dating advice dispensed by males with their parody PUA community, both of whom are there because someone has to horribly misinterpret the situation, and which are gender-correlated because… well, because that part is realistic and there are things in HPMOR that happen because that’s what the prior causal forces output, not necessarily because that’s how I freely decided the outcome should be.
This is making me realize that these discussions tend to not have a sense of scale. I’m not crazy about the undifferentiated gossiping mass (and it’s reached the point where I’m not having as much fun with it—it was funny the first time or three), but I don’t think it’s a huge flaw. It’s entertaining to see the gossip get more rationalist, but not in a way that seems to help it be more accurate.
I hadn’t noticed there was a parody PUA community, it just seemed as though there was occasional bits of PUA stuff showing up now and then. Definitely time to reread.