Strongly disagree- to the point where I’d point out that I think you are being uncharitable to pretty much everyone here (both those arguing that there is a problem from a feminist standpoint and those who are arguing there isn’t one). In particular, the comment about the Protean charm was made by CAE_jones here in a comment that was using it as an example of what canon Hermione could do at the same time pointing out limitations of canon Hermione and pointing out that she was the time much older.
Power boosts matter in this context because it is one of the fundamental changes in the fanfic is to give people power boosts. That really should be self-explanatory and no one (either for or against there being issues here) seems to disagree with that. So the nature and plausibility of the power boosts matters, and it is a reasonable response to concerns about Hermione not getting a boost to outline why giving her a boost would be difficulty.
As for the paragraph in question that you think isn’t connected at all to gender, there may be serious illusions of transparency going on here, so let me spell out the concern explicitly: Hermione is the only major female character in the work (with Minerva the next) - the next two down are Tracy and Daphne who make for hilarious comic relief. That’s the context where what happens matters.
I’m curious incidentally, if you read the initial link to fridging to see why the death matters.
branching discussion, moving on to topics more and more tangential to the original one at each branching poin
Branching, multifacted conversations happen all the time. Less Wrong and (internet conversations in general) are not exactly known for focusing on narrow issues. I don’t see this as evidence of mindkilling but rather what would be perfectly normal conversation on any side topic that in this case because of the type of topic one sees as evidence of mindkilling.
I do find it curious though that you think that everyone here is mindkilled, whereas, one of the people here who you think is mindkilled doesn’t think pretty much anyone here is except one of the very late stragglers. This makes me wonder if we’ve actually adopted the notion of politics-is-the-mindkiller too strongly here, where even polite conversations that don’t necessarily lead to updating are automatically labeled mindkilling if they involve politics. We may have a problem of confirmation bias for mindkilling, which if true is sort of funny and sad.
Strongly disagree- to the point where I’d point out that I think you are being uncharitable to pretty much everyone here (both those arguing that there is a problem from a feminist standpoint and those who are arguing there isn’t one). In particular, the comment about the Protean charm was made by CAE_jones here in a comment that was using it as an example of what canon Hermione could do at the same time pointing out limitations of canon Hermione and pointing out that she was the time much older.
Power boosts matter in this context because it is one of the fundamental changes in the fanfic is to give people power boosts. That really should be self-explanatory and no one (either for or against there being issues here) seems to disagree with that. So the nature and plausibility of the power boosts matters, and it is a reasonable response to concerns about Hermione not getting a boost to outline why giving her a boost would be difficulty.
As for the paragraph in question that you think isn’t connected at all to gender, there may be serious illusions of transparency going on here, so let me spell out the concern explicitly: Hermione is the only major female character in the work (with Minerva the next) - the next two down are Tracy and Daphne who make for hilarious comic relief. That’s the context where what happens matters.
I’m curious incidentally, if you read the initial link to fridging to see why the death matters.
Branching, multifacted conversations happen all the time. Less Wrong and (internet conversations in general) are not exactly known for focusing on narrow issues. I don’t see this as evidence of mindkilling but rather what would be perfectly normal conversation on any side topic that in this case because of the type of topic one sees as evidence of mindkilling.
I do find it curious though that you think that everyone here is mindkilled, whereas, one of the people here who you think is mindkilled doesn’t think pretty much anyone here is except one of the very late stragglers. This makes me wonder if we’ve actually adopted the notion of politics-is-the-mindkiller too strongly here, where even polite conversations that don’t necessarily lead to updating are automatically labeled mindkilling if they involve politics. We may have a problem of confirmation bias for mindkilling, which if true is sort of funny and sad.