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"Henry Nowak's Murder and the Politics of Narrative"
What happens when facts become secondary to political narratives
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Helen Pluckrose
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Helen Pluckrose
@HPluckrose
Still just wanting you to value evidence-based epistemology & consistently liberal principles. Contact me at [email protected]
- My observation is that very many women genuinely do not have an intuitive sense of how much stronger men are than women, because men have not used their strength against them &, when playing, hold back their strength. 1/
- Replying to @HPluckroseI do because I worked for many years with adults with 'challenging behaviour' (aggression) due to learning disability, dementia & brain injury. Risk assessments were very carefully done so I was only injured on three occasions. However...
- Replying to @HPluckroseWhen a man wasn't actually violent so I could work with him alone, but I had to help him with various essential things & he was confused & didn't want to let me, it becomes very clear how much stronger men are, even elderly, frail men.
- Replying to @HPluckroseAnd I have observed that a lot of my friends who have not worked in that kind of environment, tested this or encountered a man who was willing to hurt or control her have this perception. Yes, men are stronger, obviously, but it's not a huge advantage. It really is, though.
- Replying to @HPluckroseI got trapped once by an immobile 97-year-old who must have been shorter than me in his prime when he did not understand that I was trying to empty his catheter bag & grabbed my wrist. I could not remove his hand even using my other hand & twisting the wrist he had hold of.
- Replying to @HPluckroseThe husband, when we've been playing - squabbling over the remote control, grabbing me in a bear hug to keep me away from his chocolate etc. - reduced his strength to about equal with mine for that purpose & let me have a good shot at prising it out of his grip or wriggling away
- Replying to @HPluckroseCan I restrain one of his hands with both of mine? No. He can break out of that without much effort. What if it is twisted up his back? No, not even at that awkward angle. Can I stop him from walking if I put all my strength into pushing him back while he just walks normally? No.
- Replying to @HPluckroseBut, I think, if I'd not worked in an environment where men did not have mental capacity to understand what they were doing & I had not tested this with my husband, I'd probably think he was definitely stronger than me, but not by a huge degree.
- Replying to @HPluckroseMy experience (because I've been fortunate enough not to date or be friends with an arsehole) is that men typically do this when playing. I've asked him not to in a safe way so I could test how much stronger than me he is.
- Yeah, men being highly driven by sex is not a "cultural narrative." I've been trying to get queer theorists to accept that we're a sexually reproducing species for years now & that they cannot socially engineer away things like heterosexuality. This is the same kind of error. 1/2Men don’t need sex. Our culture is so hypersexualized that the idea of a celibate priest leaves people in disbelief—as if it’s impossible. That’s heartbreaking. Have we really forgotten that self-control and virtue are within reach? Look at Jesus Christ. The most perfect man
00:00 - Yes! I'm still quite fat but I've lost 40kg & already just moving around the world is so much easier & I can do so many more enjoyable things or just practical things. Here are a list of things I can do now that I could not do a year ago purely because of fatness:15 months ago vs today. Life is way better. Physically doing basic tasks is much easier. All health metrics improved. I’m fit, strong & not on track to get diabetes. Humans aren’t meant to carry that much extra weight. I’m angry at the fat positive shit I was fed for so long.
- No, it doesn't. Once you put limitations on which ideas can be criticised, you no longer have free speech.Replying to @RupertLowe10It's deeply worrying, Rupert, that you invest so much energy into advocating for the right to offend a minority community. Free speech comes with limitations and protections, clearly you're not happy with those protections extending to a Muslim minority, why?
