Like a few others, I agree with the first two but emphatically disagree with the last. And if you were right about it, I’d expect Ozy to have taken Scott to task about it, and him to have admitted to being somewhat wrong and updated on it.
See this tumblr post for an example of Ozy expressing dissatisfaction with Scott’s lack of charity in his analysis of SJ (specifically in the “Words, Words, Words” post). My impression is that this is a fairly regular occurrence.
You might be right about him not having updated. If anything it seems that his updates on the earlier superweapons discussion have been reverted. I’m not sure I’ve seen anything comparably charitable from him on the subject since. I don’t follow his thoughts on feminism particularly closely, so I could easily be wrong (and would be glad to find I’m wrong here).
OK, those things have indeed happened, to some degree. Above comment corrected.
I still don’t understand what is uncharitable about the Wordsx3 post specifically. It accurately describes the behavior of a number of people I know (as in, have met, in person, and interacted with socially, in several cases extensively in a friendly manner), and I have no reason to consider them weak examples of feminist advocacy and every reason to consider typical (their demographics match the stereotype). I have carefully avoided catching the receiving end of it, because friends of mine have honestly challenged aspects of this kind of thing and been ostracized for their trouble.
Imo this quote from her response is a pretty weak argument:
“The concept of female privilege is, AFAICT, looking at the disadvantages gender-non-conforming men face, noticing that women with similar traits don’t face those disadvantages, and concluding that this is because women are advantaged in society. ”
In order for this to be a sensible counterpoint you would need to either say “gender conforming male privilege” or you would need to show that there are few men who mind conforming to gender roles. I don’t really see why anyone believes most men are fine with living out standard gender norms and I certainly don’t see how anyone has evidence for this.
If a high percentage fo men are gender non-conforming and such men are at a disdadvantage in society then the concept of male privilege is seriously weakened. And using it is dangerous as it might harm those men to here that they are “privileged” when this is not the case (at least in terms of gender, maybe they are rich etc).
Like a few others, I agree with the first two but emphatically disagree with the last. And if you were right about it, I’d expect Ozy to have taken Scott to task about it, and him to have admitted to being somewhat wrong and updated on it.
EDIT: This has, in fact, happened.
See this tumblr post for an example of Ozy expressing dissatisfaction with Scott’s lack of charity in his analysis of SJ (specifically in the “Words, Words, Words” post). My impression is that this is a fairly regular occurrence.
You might be right about him not having updated. If anything it seems that his updates on the earlier superweapons discussion have been reverted. I’m not sure I’ve seen anything comparably charitable from him on the subject since. I don’t follow his thoughts on feminism particularly closely, so I could easily be wrong (and would be glad to find I’m wrong here).
OK, those things have indeed happened, to some degree. Above comment corrected.
I still don’t understand what is uncharitable about the Wordsx3 post specifically. It accurately describes the behavior of a number of people I know (as in, have met, in person, and interacted with socially, in several cases extensively in a friendly manner), and I have no reason to consider them weak examples of feminist advocacy and every reason to consider typical (their demographics match the stereotype). I have carefully avoided catching the receiving end of it, because friends of mine have honestly challenged aspects of this kind of thing and been ostracized for their trouble.
There’s something wrong with the first link (I guess you typed the URL on a smartphone autocorrecting keyboard or similar).
EDIT: I think this is the correct link.
Yeah, that happened when I edited a different part from my phone. Thanks, fixed.
Imo this quote from her response is a pretty weak argument:
“The concept of female privilege is, AFAICT, looking at the disadvantages gender-non-conforming men face, noticing that women with similar traits don’t face those disadvantages, and concluding that this is because women are advantaged in society. ”
In order for this to be a sensible counterpoint you would need to either say “gender conforming male privilege” or you would need to show that there are few men who mind conforming to gender roles. I don’t really see why anyone believes most men are fine with living out standard gender norms and I certainly don’t see how anyone has evidence for this.
If a high percentage fo men are gender non-conforming and such men are at a disdadvantage in society then the concept of male privilege is seriously weakened. And using it is dangerous as it might harm those men to here that they are “privileged” when this is not the case (at least in terms of gender, maybe they are rich etc).