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kingmudsy  ·  1745 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The magical thinking of guys who love logic

Badging this because it was therapeutic to read. I've recently started my first job out of college working as a full-time software developer. This is something I wish I could send my coworkers and have them really think about. In my mind, this speaks to the lack of introspection that some men develop when they feel overly confident in their own conclusion-forming powers.

Maybe this is a post for another time, but I can't count the number of times my opinion has been dismissed in a meeting only for the Intellectuals(tm) to wind their way towards the same conclusion. Don't even get me started on how they treat women.

Thanks for sharing, it was a good read.





dshmract  ·  1741 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't doubt there are people that think they're right but aren't, but this article is just strawman after strawman coated in hate. They start out talking about figure in the intelectual dark web and then quickly fall back into weird internet circles like redpill which aren't particularly based around objective logic and don't really pretend to be. The whole point of the IDW is that it's made up of democrats and republicans, gender scientists and religious conservatives, and the goal is to find a range of ideas that are likely to work and call out holes in ideas that don't work or spread hate. The lady who wrote this just talks about how much she hates men, accuses them of not understanding what logic is, and then links to a terrible Ben Shapiro rebuttal which accuses him of name-calling at an event where antifa protesters were hospitalizing his fans and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in security and damage.

Ironically the only other article she wrote for this site is titled "Resolved: Debate is stupid", which kind of explains her opposition to a movement based around trying to analyze things logically. It makes sense that she's so opposed to logic though when you consider the cognitive dissonance that must be required for her to exist on a daily basis.