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Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023

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She did not come off particularly sympathetically in the video.

That really depends. She might've been scared, like you might be (as a man) if five or six huge gay dudes were doing the same kind of shit with you and your bike. How would you feel if five gay Mountain-sized guys, 6'8" 400lb strongmen or NFL linebackers, were doing this to a smallish straight dude?

2rafa is a woman. The dudes being gay wouldn't make much of a difference.

Yeah. I assumed that 2rafa was a dude. This being said... how would YOU feel in that situation, assuming you're a man? Like. At best these guys aren't handling this situation well, at worst it's strongarm robbery.

This being said... how would YOU feel in that situation, assuming you're a man? Like. At best these guys aren't handling this situation well, at worst it's strongarm robbery.

I don't like this situation even if those dudes are straight. I absolutely agree this is close to strongarm robbery with the threat of violence replaced by the threat of cancellation (plus a weak version of the threat of violence). My priors for "pregnant woman with ID badge launches ploy to steal bike from group of urban youths" are so low that it's pretty clear to me that this is almost certainly the dudes trying to trick her into giving up the bike.

Steal? No, the best case scenario is an honest misunderstanding where the woman thought it was her bike, but it was one of the dudes' bikes.

That's never been independently confirmed or outright stated by them, to my knowledge. Better to leave it ambiguous to avoid the inevitable ad wominem and white knighting claims that would inevitably follow.

If my memory isn't playing tricks on me and it was indeed @2rafa who wrote it, then there was a post in /r/PurplePillDebate that has stuck in that memory for literally years, with such a genuine confusion about how habitually covering the check could possible be an issue that only somebody both upper class and female could have written it.

Could just be the upper class thing.

On the internet, claiming to be a woman both invites special treatment and accusations of wanting special treatment. Therefore strategic ambiguity is a way to avoid the “tits or gtfo” dilemma.

Given how male this place is, there is also at least a distinct probability that they are a man. Rafa’s views are so idiosyncratic that I doubt much can be gleaned from discussing their sex anyway (in the absence of an explicit claim).

If someone implicitly signals ‘whatever I am, treat me as everyone else’, I am happy to comply.

She's been very clear about it on numerous occasions.

They also said they occasionally switch from commenting as man or woman.

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