I was thinking of Roissy’s website for both 9 and 11, actually. I used to read it, in the interest of “exposure to different views.” Then I quit, reasoning that by now I understand his viewpoint pretty well, but the website continues to make me nauseous, and continues to prime me to emotionally believe things that I know are not true (e.g. “All men think I’m ugly!”) At some point, the amount I’m learning is too small to justify other harms.
At some point Roissy started having interns write a lot of the posts and they got more political and way less interesting while staying the same amount of offensive. That led me to stop reading altogether.
When I did read it it primed me to believe some troubling, false things too- though since I’m a straight male it was things like “I’m pathetic for not sleeping with more beautiful women”. I don’t regret reading enough to learn his perspective, though.
I was thinking of Roissy’s website for both 9 and 11, actually. I used to read it, in the interest of “exposure to different views.” Then I quit, reasoning that by now I understand his viewpoint pretty well, but the website continues to make me nauseous, and continues to prime me to emotionally believe things that I know are not true (e.g. “All men think I’m ugly!”) At some point, the amount I’m learning is too small to justify other harms.
At some point Roissy started having interns write a lot of the posts and they got more political and way less interesting while staying the same amount of offensive. That led me to stop reading altogether.
When I did read it it primed me to believe some troubling, false things too- though since I’m a straight male it was things like “I’m pathetic for not sleeping with more beautiful women”. I don’t regret reading enough to learn his perspective, though.