A1987dM comments on [LINK] Why I’m not on the Rationalist Masterlist

A1987dM 11 Jan 2014 11:12 UTC
3 points

but we cannot do that, because “ordinary guy” (and “normal woman”) is a strong political identity too.

If everyone has a strong political identity, then the phrase “strong political identity” is meaningless.

Also … I wonder what a person whose maps of the social world were really “no better than random” would look like.

Exactly. Reversed stupidity is not intelligence.
- fubarobfusco 11 Jan 2014 19:11 UTC
  7 points
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  Let me try to unpack it a bit:
  
  People who do not claim a named gender-related political identity (like “feminist” or “MRA”) nonetheless typically explicitly teach and reinforce ideas about gender … and get defensive about them in pretty much the same way that people get defensive about political ideas.