The site lost my response; bugger.
I have to object to your first objection there. What can you claim to know about the female sex in general solely based on the fact that you yourself are female? You are just a data point. So, regardless of your gender, I think it’s fairly legitimate to say, “You need to realize something about females.”
That something—whether females identify with their own gender more strongly than males—is absolutely verifiable using scientific channels. The only thing that may be objectionable about my statements—is if they’re flat-out wrong.
But to remedy that is easy—just find the truth.
Your objections threw me off. I could understand saying, “That hasn’t been verified.” But to say, “I’m a female, so you shouldn’t lecture me on females”—something struck me as wrong about that. Can we agree on this or am I falling for bad logic?
As for the last statement, I respect your belief that gender issues interfere with your goals. But the way you stated it in the original post was judgmental. You could have just presented a rational case for it. Or is that not the way things run around here? Is it better to insult everyone that doesn’t think the way you do?
Personally, I think controversy is more interesting than not. The internet keeps proving this over and over again. So if you want to attract more females, KEEP TALKING ABOUT THEM.
Getting offended is one way to get started on a rationalist path because it evokes an emotion. It evokes an inner-conflict. Which can result to greater self-understanding. Offending people is fine. Since it reflects more badly on the offensive person than on the offended person. It might even reflect badly on this community as a whole, but hey, if it gets people to start thinking, what’s so bad? If it gets women to understand something about themselves? What’s so bad?
However I would try to balance it out by ALSO examining men in such a way. There’s a lot of literature on PUA, and it is actively discussed here. Why not just find proven methods for attracting men and discuss them also? In a rationalist fashion, of course. If it offends the men on the site, then… all the better. Men need a wake-up call, too.