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this is exactly how prominent rationalists reacted to my coming forward about SA, and I feel bad for any woman coerced into letting her guard down in these communities

Thanks to @plex for writing this, I was linked this post by someone on substack after a recent post on psychedelic exceptionalism and rationalist events.

I wanted to zero in on one thing plex mentioned: painting victims with some brush to take away their credibility is what abusers do. Courtney Love was the first woman to say anything about Harvey Weinstein and four words on the red carpet got her banned from the CAA, and very few people if anyone took her seriously.

These things keep happening because rationalism's response to them is saying things like o... (read more)