The particular comment I linked to was primarily addressing the question: What fraction of HPMOR readers are female? It justified a guess (explicitly stated to be only a guess) that the fraction is on the order of 1⁄2 by observing (1) that among HPMOR readers of the writer’s own acquaintance the fraction is close to that, even though the writer knows substantially more men than women, and (2) that the readership of fanfiction generally skews female.
Even without any translation of that comment—with nothing other than removing it from the context of an argument with the word “feminism” in it—what about it would be “easily distinguishable” or exhibit a problematic “certain type of thinking”? What about its social-political implications would be unusual?
I suggest that the answer is: Nothing at all. (Which is one reason why I chose that comment as providing evidence that at least some of JoshuaZ’s recent downvoters have been playing the man rather than the ball.)
The particular comment I linked to was primarily addressing the question: What fraction of HPMOR readers are female? It justified a guess (explicitly stated to be only a guess) that the fraction is on the order of 1⁄2 by observing (1) that among HPMOR readers of the writer’s own acquaintance the fraction is close to that, even though the writer knows substantially more men than women, and (2) that the readership of fanfiction generally skews female.
Even without any translation of that comment—with nothing other than removing it from the context of an argument with the word “feminism” in it—what about it would be “easily distinguishable” or exhibit a problematic “certain type of thinking”? What about its social-political implications would be unusual?
I suggest that the answer is: Nothing at all. (Which is one reason why I chose that comment as providing evidence that at least some of JoshuaZ’s recent downvoters have been playing the man rather than the ball.)