Comment by jfpbookworm on Of Exclusionary Speech and Gender Politics · 2009-07-24T19:26:27.795Z · LW · GW

Part of the issue is that, even when the hurt is minimal, it's a decision that one's own self-interest outweighs the harm to someone else, and as humans we're not very good at making that calculation objectively.

Comment by jfpbookworm on The Nature of Offense · 2009-07-24T19:23:03.951Z · LW · GW

Compounding this is that when men are subjects and women are objects in a rationalist forum, this draws on some long-standing tropes about men being essentially more rational than women.

Comment by jfpbookworm on The Nature of Offense · 2009-07-24T19:16:44.610Z · LW · GW

Of course, that leads to offenders trying to assert status by accusing offendees of status-assertion (because we regard status-protection as more worthy than status-assertion), and round and round we go.