My impression is that the problem isn’t disagreement with, or disapproval of, his views so much as it’s a feeling that (1) some topics he wants to talk about (his success or lack of it with women) don’t really belong here and (2) the manner in which he talks about them is inappropriate. A few examples:
I often feel poly folks are basically epicifiying what I think is “I just wanna fuck”.
(This was in a comment that’s currently at +1-3; there were other not-terribly-impressive things in it, but my guess is that the quoted sentence is what got the downvotes.) So: gratuitous rudeness about poly people (of whom there are a fair number here), expressed in needlessly coarse terms. It doesn’t seem terribly surprising that it got some downvotes. Nothing to do with the progressivist narrative on gender here.
Fucking hell man that’s what I wanted to say to the girl. FUCK THAT BUS.
(This was in a comment that’s at +1-4.) Dumping his own personal frustrations into a discussion about something else. Unnecessary fucking. Again, no progressive narrative required.
Actually, the most-downvoted comments I saw in my quick trawl through UH’s history had nothing to do with gender. For instance: on +1-6 there was a reply to RichardKennaway’s observation that LW has advice on how to start liking things but nothing on how to stop liking things, which I frankly found almost incomprehensible; on +0-4, a complaint about LW having karma-based limits on what you can do; a couple of heavily downvoted comments in a thread that is about gender, but where the downvotes are clearly for UH being pointlessly and contentlessly rude to other people.
My overall impression is that UH’s comments are usually poorly written, frequently dismissive to others without cause, often more concerned with his own personal life than is appropriate in context, sometimes downright incomprehensible, and with a surfeit of “fucking”s that frequently makes him sound like an overwrought teenager. (Sorry, UH, but that’s how it is.) His attitude to women probably doesn’t help (seriously, did you seewhat he wrote to Alicorn?) but I’d be surprised if even the most generous intepretation of “views inconsistent with the progressivist narrative on gender” had those views accounting for more than 5% of his downvotes.
My impression is that the problem isn’t disagreement with, or disapproval of, his views so much as it’s a feeling that (1) some topics he wants to talk about (his success or lack of it with women) don’t really belong here and (2) the manner in which he talks about them is inappropriate. A few examples:
(This was in a comment that’s currently at +1-3; there were other not-terribly-impressive things in it, but my guess is that the quoted sentence is what got the downvotes.) So: gratuitous rudeness about poly people (of whom there are a fair number here), expressed in needlessly coarse terms. It doesn’t seem terribly surprising that it got some downvotes. Nothing to do with the progressivist narrative on gender here.
(This was in a comment that’s at +1-4.) Dumping his own personal frustrations into a discussion about something else. Unnecessary fucking. Again, no progressive narrative required.
Actually, the most-downvoted comments I saw in my quick trawl through UH’s history had nothing to do with gender. For instance: on +1-6 there was a reply to RichardKennaway’s observation that LW has advice on how to start liking things but nothing on how to stop liking things, which I frankly found almost incomprehensible; on +0-4, a complaint about LW having karma-based limits on what you can do; a couple of heavily downvoted comments in a thread that is about gender, but where the downvotes are clearly for UH being pointlessly and contentlessly rude to other people.
My overall impression is that UH’s comments are usually poorly written, frequently dismissive to others without cause, often more concerned with his own personal life than is appropriate in context, sometimes downright incomprehensible, and with a surfeit of “fucking”s that frequently makes him sound like an overwrought teenager. (Sorry, UH, but that’s how it is.) His attitude to women probably doesn’t help (seriously, did you see what he wrote to Alicorn?) but I’d be surprised if even the most generous intepretation of “views inconsistent with the progressivist narrative on gender” had those views accounting for more than 5% of his downvotes.
[EDITED to fix a minor grammatical screwup.]