This does seem a bit out of line to me. I dropped the whole Cosmo issue when Alicorn made it clear that she considers “getting” a man to be equally objectifying language. I’d sure hate to be on the receiving end of somebody browbeating me about Sports Illustrated being evidence of how men act, if it was something I personally considered reprehensible.
Of course, in that case, I’d also happily admit that my disagreement with Sports Illustrated might put me in an atypical minority among men, and that therefore I might not be reliably considered to speak for my the majority of my gender in the matter.
I might be able to claim to be more representative of male rationalists on Less Wrong (ha!) except for the fact that we’re actually more different than similar… as are the female rationalists here, who’ve weighed in with a variety of opinions that are even more diverse than the male opinions, AFAICT. (Or at least, opinions that are less equivocal than the male ones.)
All of which tends to support the contention that the only way to be considerate towards rationalists is on an individual basis. Heck, the male rationalists here have occasionally been at each other’s throats about what constitutes appropriate courtesy for charitable interpretations of each others’ theses. Rationalists, it seems, are a diverse lot, and respect has to go both ways.
So it’s probably better not to be the one who’s escalating things.
This does seem a bit out of line to me. I dropped the whole Cosmo issue when Alicorn made it clear that she considers “getting” a man to be equally objectifying language. I’d sure hate to be on the receiving end of somebody browbeating me about Sports Illustrated being evidence of how men act, if it was something I personally considered reprehensible.
Of course, in that case, I’d also happily admit that my disagreement with Sports Illustrated might put me in an atypical minority among men, and that therefore I might not be reliably considered to speak for my the majority of my gender in the matter.
I might be able to claim to be more representative of male rationalists on Less Wrong (ha!) except for the fact that we’re actually more different than similar… as are the female rationalists here, who’ve weighed in with a variety of opinions that are even more diverse than the male opinions, AFAICT. (Or at least, opinions that are less equivocal than the male ones.)
All of which tends to support the contention that the only way to be considerate towards rationalists is on an individual basis. Heck, the male rationalists here have occasionally been at each other’s throats about what constitutes appropriate courtesy for charitable interpretations of each others’ theses. Rationalists, it seems, are a diverse lot, and respect has to go both ways.
So it’s probably better not to be the one who’s escalating things.