Bryan Caplan's avatar
My Louise Perry Interview
Peter Gerdes's avatar

Don't you think that it would be very difficult for someone in academia or other elite circles to publicly endorse the statement that feminism is bad? Even if they are willing to endorse the substance of all the empirical claims you make in your book?

Doesn't that make your choice of definition a substantial barrier to convincing the kind of people (your daughters) you claim to want to persuade? Just as a tactical matter, why not define a new term so you avoid the resistance you are bound to gen…

Stephen Grossman's avatar

"Gender Tribalism" by Peter Schwartz, in _Return Of The Primitive_ by Ayn Rand makes it possible to refute feminism. Definitions are a need and product of the focused mind. They are not not arbitrary and conventional products of the unfocused mind. Defrauding people into ideas increases contempt for them.

> Defrauding people into ideas increases contempt for them

Would you mind unpacking this more? I'd like to understand this better.

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