I’ve been very down on some previous discussions of gender and related issues here, but find the current post to be good and constructive. It’s so much more interesting to think about how something that seems really fundamental to us now might be different in a technologically enhanced future than it is to think about how the straight dudes among us could all use rationality to get laid way more often.
Actually that is a large reason of why I wrote this post. Because I am interested in topics of gender and relationships, etc., those are the topics I looked into when I first found LW. I almost wrote the entire site off because of the massive flamewars I inevitably found about PUA. (Luckily I stayed around long enough to find all the other good stuff)
I figured the best way to combat this effect for future potential new LW-ers is to have more posts about gender and relationships that ARENT devolving into PUA flamewars.
Note- I am not bashing PUA. I’m just saying that I wasn’t impressed when my first impression here was that it was all that was talked about in regards to gender.
I’ve been very down on some previous discussions of gender and related issues here, but find the current post to be good and constructive. It’s so much more interesting to think about how something that seems really fundamental to us now might be different in a technologically enhanced future than it is to think about how the straight dudes among us could all use rationality to get laid way more often.
Thank you both for the idea!
Actually that is a large reason of why I wrote this post. Because I am interested in topics of gender and relationships, etc., those are the topics I looked into when I first found LW. I almost wrote the entire site off because of the massive flamewars I inevitably found about PUA. (Luckily I stayed around long enough to find all the other good stuff)
I figured the best way to combat this effect for future potential new LW-ers is to have more posts about gender and relationships that ARENT devolving into PUA flamewars.
Note- I am not bashing PUA. I’m just saying that I wasn’t impressed when my first impression here was that it was all that was talked about in regards to gender.