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Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

It's always interesting how often this sexual aggression gets gussied up by some form of post-enlightenment buttressing. A lot of these people group everything into "hangups about sex" as having nonsensical cultural roots and boy, that's not it.

This is always my favorite example, but they abound: www.courthousenews.com/critical-thi...

I think it's part of a broader narrative of right wing moral bypassing. Hierarchies of domination and control are justified for the purpose of self-gratification. These justifications seem to become more and more delusional as the moral inconsistency of the act/desire increases.

I tend to think that this cuts across the political spectrum.

Absolutely, however imo conservatism is defined by it, and fights for it, while liberalism is about tempering it and designing institutions to remedy it.