Heck, I suspect that in a lot of cases what a feminist claims is creepy on the internet, and what the same feminist would find creepy in real life are different things.
That extends to more than feminists, and more than creepiness; people’s verbal descriptions of grammatical or moral rules often don’t match the judgement they will give to specific cases. More generally, people can’t see how their brain works, and when they try to describe it they will get a lot wrong.
Heck, I suspect that in a lot of cases what a feminist claims is creepy on the internet, and what the same feminist would find creepy in real life are different things.
That extends to more than feminists, and more than creepiness; people’s verbal descriptions of grammatical or moral rules often don’t match the judgement they will give to specific cases. More generally, people can’t see how their brain works, and when they try to describe it they will get a lot wrong.