Off topic, but… since you are allegedly a strong feminist, maybe you can recommend specific feminist writing that you think is good reading as a counterpoint to SSC’s stuff? I’ve read a fair amount of feminist writing but I haven’t managed to find much that is as well-argued/thoughtful/reasonable as the SSC stuff. Ideally it would be feminist writing that attempts to respond to SSC directly.
“As well-argued/thoughtful/reasonable as the SSC stuff” is a pretty hard target to hit on most topics. Could you be more specific than “feminist writing”, e.g., talk about a certain claim SSC makes that you’d like to see assessed by others?
Popehat’s Shirts and Shirtiness strikes me as an especially high-quality post that’s SSC-ish while coming out in favor of some ideas you see in feminism. Agenty Duck’s Hasty Genderalizations gives a broader argument for worrying about gender bias. Ben Kuhn’s On Inclusivity in Less Wrong is an example of a good feminism-relevant response to a specific SSC argument (though I don’t necessarily agree 100% with Ben’s arguments, and some of them may be dated at this point).
I’m not sure which of these is closest to what you’re looking for. I find blogs like Thing of Things, Gruntled and Hinged, and The Unit of Caring useful both for clearly articulating ideas in the feminist memespace and for providing independent confirmation for some SSC views.
Off topic, but… since you are allegedly a strong feminist, maybe you can recommend specific feminist writing that you think is good reading as a counterpoint to SSC’s stuff? I’ve read a fair amount of feminist writing but I haven’t managed to find much that is as well-argued/thoughtful/reasonable as the SSC stuff. Ideally it would be feminist writing that attempts to respond to SSC directly.
“As well-argued/thoughtful/reasonable as the SSC stuff” is a pretty hard target to hit on most topics. Could you be more specific than “feminist writing”, e.g., talk about a certain claim SSC makes that you’d like to see assessed by others?
Popehat’s Shirts and Shirtiness strikes me as an especially high-quality post that’s SSC-ish while coming out in favor of some ideas you see in feminism. Agenty Duck’s Hasty Genderalizations gives a broader argument for worrying about gender bias. Ben Kuhn’s On Inclusivity in Less Wrong is an example of a good feminism-relevant response to a specific SSC argument (though I don’t necessarily agree 100% with Ben’s arguments, and some of them may be dated at this point).
I’m not sure which of these is closest to what you’re looking for. I find blogs like Thing of Things, Gruntled and Hinged, and The Unit of Caring useful both for clearly articulating ideas in the feminist memespace and for providing independent confirmation for some SSC views.