However, I lost all respect for the author after reading some of his responses in the discussion thread.
One post of his in particular caught my eye :
"...And the first thing you did when confronted with this topic was to defend, counter, argue, and resist.
And by doing so, you immediately lost based on the rules set forth by the article..."
The notion that an argument cannot be refuted because of some preemptive ban on counter-arguments is, frankly, ludicrous to the point of being offensive.
This doesn't invalidate the contents of the article, but it effectively ends my interest in reading anything else by this author - including his follow up piece.
That is a fairly disappointing rebuttal by him. Hopefully we can simultaneously absorb the good of a nuanced discussion of the issue and condemn bad arguments about it by the same.
In what is a largely evidence based/logical culture, it's frustrating how both sides are often almost completely filled with illogical shouting. Hopefully HN can become a place with a lot more productive discussion about it than it previously has.
Probably the worst feature of modern feminism is the idea that any and all disagreement with modern feminism is sexism and thus deserves no consideration or response.
However, I lost all respect for the author after reading some of his responses in the discussion thread.
One post of his in particular caught my eye :
"...And the first thing you did when confronted with this topic was to defend, counter, argue, and resist.
And by doing so, you immediately lost based on the rules set forth by the article..."
The notion that an argument cannot be refuted because of some preemptive ban on counter-arguments is, frankly, ludicrous to the point of being offensive.
This doesn't invalidate the contents of the article, but it effectively ends my interest in reading anything else by this author - including his follow up piece.