On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I speak with Natalia Bower—a doctoral student in Philosophy who recently wrote a hugely viral essay on the Cornell Seven:
She later followed it up with an excellent treatise on sexual essentialism:
I strongly encourage all dedicated Waltheads to read both of the above pieces.
Topics include:
Does Natalia think women have sexual agency?
Can women meaningfully consent to sex with a high status and physically imposing man behind closed doors?
Read Walter’s Consent Isn’t Real and Women (Really) Don’t Have Agency
Why consent-status is often underdetermined at the point of coitus
Why women who make “false rape accusations” don’t experience it as lying
Why Natalia thinks men bear more responsibility in sexual situations
The difference between consent and submission
If men bear greater responsibility in the moment due to greater physical power, do women bear greater moral responsibility thereafter due to their own greater post-hoc narrative power?
Is it possible for anyone to be “honest” about interpersonal situations?
Why the female understanding of consent often feels arbitrary to men
Yes Nos vs. No Nos vs. Convince Me Nos
Capture as an inherent facet of heterosexuality
How men and women are differently manipulative when it comes to understanding and discussing consent
Patriarchy as a mechanism for mate guarding vs. managing female agency
Walter argues that moral responsibility without institutional power precipitates Hirschman-exit and that this is presently occurring in Zoomer men
The Infinite White Knight Fleet-in-Being as a source of female narrative power
Walt argues women radically underestimate their reputational danger to men
Female post-hoc repricing
Do men and women reprice exes in different directions?
Are We Dating The Same Guy groups as a scarlet letter mechanism
Gossip apps don’t have neutral adjudication mechanisms and women tend to automatically interpret men’s desire for such a mechanism in bad faith
The impact of young women now outearning young men on the dating market and public epistemics
Men are the first ones to enforce female reputational sanction for status and favor and this lets women blame men for enforcing it
The negative status valence for men of defending the Cornell Seven
How valuable is female interpretive authority as a power currency?
The separate male and female desires for rape qua rape
How erotic game theory ensures you don’t hear stories about women chastising men for not being dominant enough
How female sociosexuality and her male partner’s status influence her later classification of his sexually aggressive behavior
Do we need certain illusions to keep heterosexuality functional?
Do men and women know too much about each other?
