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Helen Pluckrose...why?

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RoyalCorgi · 12/09/2020 12:55

I've just bought Helen Pluckrose's new book, Cynical Theories, attacking identity politics. We've had some discussions on here about it.

Yet apparently she doesn't like gender-critical feminists. I can't get my head around why, given that we are on the same side. Anyone know?

Helen Pluckrose...why?
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DancelikeEmmaGoldman · 12/09/2020 13:18

I’m not like those other women. You know, the loud, strident ones who just complain (un-coolly), about boring things like child abuse and violence against women.

ArabellaScott · 12/09/2020 13:15

I can't understand what point she is trying ot make - that if you go to a mixed nudist resort you shouldn't complain about naked males? Okay. Seems logical. Otherwise, who knows?

OneEpisode · 12/09/2020 13:13

She says she has different positions from Kathleen Stock but still respects her. That’s a normal human thing.
Helen thinks of herself as a part of the “liberal” position not the “radical“ one.

OneEpisode · 12/09/2020 13:11

She’s quite clearly using humour to show the GC people can disagree politely. And not cancel her.
twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/1304711215764168704?s=20
Is her next tweet..

Aesopfable · 12/09/2020 13:07

GC feminists are simply intolerant baddies who have arrived at their position through bigotry and hate whereas she is simply applying logic so nothing like them.

BovaryX · 12/09/2020 13:07

That's surprising. James Lindsay, her collaborator with the parody papers about urban dog parks in Portland, seems to have zero tolerance for the entire woke cabaret. Dunno.

OneEpisode · 12/09/2020 13:06

Isn’t Helen a human who like other humans sometimes says things that are less considered and/or less kind? And she is here commenting on the humanity of the GC side?