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Short answer: YES. And I can briefly explain why. huckmagazine.com/perspectives/o… @mmegannnolan @glosswitch @MeghanEMurphy @jessphillips
The "male feminist" is a running joke both among feminists and anti-feminists. Like, dear God, #StopClymer, right? Why is this? Isn't it because the male feminist's motives are so transparently obvious? Yet he expects to be taken seriously?
Or what about @BillClinton? Isn't it obvious that he became a politician for the same reason I, as a teenage boy, learned how to play guitar? Feminists can debate among themselves which is the more honest way a guy can try to get laid.
Most of what feminists call "sexism" or "misogyny" nowadays seems to be synonymous with "guys trying to get laid." If left-wing politics is considered to be the sine qua non of sexual access to young women? Hello, "male feminist"!
Can the left-wing politics of the "male feminist" ever be entirely sincere? Shouldn't we suspect the progressive guy is running a three-card monte hustle? He conceals his selfishness behind ostentatious "social justice" gestures.
What? You say progressive men abuse women while giving lip service to "choice" and "social justice"? I'm shocked -- shocked, I tell you! @mmegannnolan @glosswitch @MeghanEMurphy @jessphillips
What? The Hollywood "male feminist" who made his name with teenage lesbian vampire TV shows is a sexual predator? I'm shocked -- shocked! @mmegannnolan @glosswitch @MeghanEMurphy @jessphillips
There is such a thing as an honest proposition, a free and rational exchange of value -- voluntary cooperation for mutual benefit. In economics, this is what is generally called capitalism. In politics, "progressives" are against capitalism.
The progressive begins by denying that a free and honest exchange of value is desirable or even possible. Certainly no progressive believes capitalism is beneficial, or preferable to government-mandated economic "equality."
At its heart, the "progressive" economic agenda is about denying the personal agency of the individual. Everyone is either (a) a ruthless oppressor or (b) a helpless victim of the all-powerful "system," according to progressives.
Feminism translates the "progressive" worldview from the domain of economics into the realm of sexual relationships. You're either (a) a cishet male oppressor or (b) a helpless victim of "patriarchy."
You should now consider the questions no progressive ever seems willing to ask: "What if I'm wrong? What if my loyalties have been misplaced? What if I've been bamboozled?" @mmegannnolan @glosswitch @MeghanEMurphy @jessphillips
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Let me expand on this, a bit, because I think many people misunderstand the feminist critique of pornography, as I did for many years.
Circa 1985, when Andrea Dworkin & Co. were leading the feminist crusade against pornography, most Americans had zero exposure to hard-core porn. I know that I was clueless as to what the fuss was about, never having seen such stuff.
Prior to the mid-1980s, one had to go looking for actual hard core pornography, like at some grimy "XXX" theater or smut shop in the bad neighborhoods of a big cities.
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This is a very worthwhile discussion, and I hope you ladies won't mind some mansplaining. boundless.org/blog/an-open-l… @EverywhereErica @laalex2 @KaeleyT
Mrs. Alexander is, of course, correct. Parents should not automatically assume that sending your daughters off to college is the thing to do, simply because that's what everybody else does.
Ideally, however, your daughter will have met and been courted by her future husband *before* she reaches college age. This was the case with our oldest daughter, who met her future husband at 15 and married him at 21.
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There is a huge overlap between (a) the transgender population and (b) the BDSM/fetish/"kink" scene. Only a fool could believe this is not significant. Also, how many transgender people have histories of childhood sexual trauma?
#Transcult: "If you don't validate their identities and support their transition, they'll kill themselves!"
Sane People: "Can we talk about their suicidal tendencies? Maybe the cause-and-effect correlation here isn't what you say it is?"
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#Transcult: "Do what I say or I'll kill myself!"
Sane people: "What is this, a hostage standoff? You're not a victim. You're a bully. Take your pronouns and your ideology and go jump off a bridge, for all I care."
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Kavanaugh says he was privately proud of being a high school virgin. For him, he says, it was "a matter of faith, and respect, and caution."
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Who’s up for a #WednesdayWisdom quiz?

How much do you know about Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election and Trump’s campaign?

Test your knowledge with these 7 questions. You ready?
1. Has Robert Mueller’s investigation uncovered any evidence of crimes?
2. Has Mueller issued any criminal indictments (charges)?
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How powerful could #ASI become? Note that when an AI gets better than a human at something it gets much, much, much better. (Also note the terrifying scenario of an AGI/ASI running 1:1 for office.) @MIRIBerkeley #sketchnotes
A favorite concept from the book is that “we already have something that does everything that humans can do, which is humans.” But the charming _bon mot_ is a disservice to the potential at-scale effects of ANI.
Eventually ANI may be able to do everything that humans can do, but do it faster, tirelessly, and cheaper than humans. We are going to have to get psych, civics, and law ahead of the potential displacement of humans. Some good news is that ANI will always need human partners.
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I promised a thread about whether energy system modeling results are overconfident. This is that thread.

Short answer: yes, certainly, but because the people doing it are only human, not (generally) because they are doing a bad job.

Longer answer below.
I should note that some of these ideas (and the screencaps) come from Granger Morgan's great (though somewhat technical and sophisticated) book Uncertainty. This sort of thinking was a central part of my PhD program, so all the @CMU_EPP folks out there will find this familiar.
So how can I say that energy modeling results are overconfident? The simple answer is that basically all results from all fields that we can check are found to be overconfident. Overconfidence is a feature of humans and sneaks into even the most objective-seeming results.
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Do you believe that transgender people "reinforce the gender system"? Well no worries, I will disabuse you of that silly notion in 3 steps!
1) You know the things transgender people do that seem "gender-reinforcing" to you? Well cisgender people do those things all the time too!
In fact, the overwhelming majority of gender-conforming people are cisgender, not transgender. So why are you picking on trans people then?
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