This is mostly a rehash of things already said by others, but my read is still that the version of that statement that has ‘SFBA’ instead of ‘EA’ in it is the only thing resembling a first approximation, and EA would only appear from a 2nd approximation onwards. E.g. to my knowledge I don’t know anyone who lives in a hacker house, and I’d never heard of the phenomenon before the TIME article.
In general I’m in favour of warning people about (even potentially) bad actors/groups and toxic cultish behaviour, and have done so previously. I just don’t see how it isn’t counterproductive to tell women that a movement is “plagued” by something appears to centre on a city where <7% of people who identify with the movement live (based on the 2020 EA survey). [I take your point that this toxic group of people has branched beyond SF, but it still seems very much centred there].
This is mostly a rehash of things already said by others, but my read is still that the version of that statement that has ‘SFBA’ instead of ‘EA’ in it is the only thing resembling a first approximation, and EA would only appear from a 2nd approximation onwards. E.g. to my knowledge I don’t know anyone who lives in a hacker house, and I’d never heard of the phenomenon before the TIME article.
In general I’m in favour of warning people about (even potentially) bad actors/groups and toxic cultish behaviour, and have done so previously. I just don’t see how it isn’t counterproductive to tell women that a movement is “plagued” by something appears to centre on a city where <7% of people who identify with the movement live (based on the 2020 EA survey). [I take your point that this toxic group of people has branched beyond SF, but it still seems very much centred there].
Yeah, I see your point, SFBA as the first approximation makes sense to me!