Rex Kerr
1 min readSep 9, 2023

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Hahaha, this, in response to a post saying that I do not block people as a matter of principle.

We spent a very long time not arguing about my point, which (in response to some disheartened man's comment on one of her articles) was that "Man Box" is kind of a dismissive/demeaning term to use if you're trying to generate an appealing alternative for people already predisposed to be wary of feminist ideas, and it quickly developed into a further claim (because Elle was insisting that the term was a very good one) that the Equimundo study did not demonstrate that it was a box (indeed, it demonstrates that it is not a box), so it isn't even named properly--but that's what I was trying to discuss. I forget what all the other stuff was.

So, right prior to when she blocked me, I forget which point I was making--something where I was asking for evidence that would support some overly grandiose claim about society; I forget what I was asking for because I've asked her a variety of things and almost never gotten a thoughtful, scholarly reflection on the actual state of evidence. Maybe it was the degree of documentation we have on the range of level of violence in pre-patriarchal societies or something of the sort?

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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