Edit: Why does this apparently bother two different people that I suggested it?
I downvoted you because you’re endorsing overt factionalization of Less Wrong’s userbase (again). As the previous discussion has shown, there’s no shortage of people (male and female) who will take genuine offense at objectifying or otherwise insensitive language: we have no need for meat-puppets or “deputies”.
Edited to address reply: The only situation where Eliezer called for female rationalists to intervene was to debunk a hypothetical feminist commenter who took offense at eminently sensible things like, say, evolutionary psychology [1]. This is not at all the same as identifying genuine sexism concerns.
[1] Which is ironic, since evolutionary psychology as currently practiced is full of baseless “just-so stories”. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if some of these stories were genuinely problematic.
I downvoted you because you’re endorsing overt factionalization of Less Wrong’s userbase (again). As the previous discussion has shown, there’s no shortage of people (male and female) who will take genuine offense at objectifying or otherwise insensitive language: we have no need for meat-puppets or “deputies”.
Edited to address reply: The only situation where Eliezer called for female rationalists to intervene was to debunk a hypothetical feminist commenter who took offense at eminently sensible things like, say, evolutionary psychology [1]. This is not at all the same as identifying genuine sexism concerns.
[1] Which is ironic, since evolutionary psychology as currently practiced is full of baseless “just-so stories”. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if some of these stories were genuinely problematic.