I used to read LW but never commented. Then I had a change of heart when there was a post that in effect invited people to take a more active part. I commented often and even posted but the experience was not a happy one and I have gone back to only reading some items and commenting very rarely. I do not feel welcome nor feel completely rejected. There are a lot of reasons for the alienation in my case and the repeated return to PUA is one of them. But there are many other reason that are more important.
In a sense PUA is political. Evolutionary psychology isn’t, seduction itself isn’t, communication skills aren’t. I don’t find Jesse Bering’s pieces in the ScAm political. It is the treating of women and of sex as a sort of commodity that makes it seem political to me. It doesn’t matter how you dress it up nicely—being treated as a commodity is degrading.
On the other hand, something that I do not think is political at all but simply scientific, global warming is treated as a sort of taboo political question. Everything else can be discussed but not the biggest danger we face.
I used to read LW but never commented. Then I had a change of heart when there was a post that in effect invited people to take a more active part. I commented often and even posted but the experience was not a happy one and I have gone back to only reading some items and commenting very rarely. I do not feel welcome nor feel completely rejected. There are a lot of reasons for the alienation in my case and the repeated return to PUA is one of them. But there are many other reason that are more important. In a sense PUA is political. Evolutionary psychology isn’t, seduction itself isn’t, communication skills aren’t. I don’t find Jesse Bering’s pieces in the ScAm political. It is the treating of women and of sex as a sort of commodity that makes it seem political to me. It doesn’t matter how you dress it up nicely—being treated as a commodity is degrading. On the other hand, something that I do not think is political at all but simply scientific, global warming is treated as a sort of taboo political question. Everything else can be discussed but not the biggest danger we face.