NOW

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NOW is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 10, 2022 and November 30, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “we still have NOW and Planned Parenthood”; “She sure seems to think a lot about women, but probably wouldn’t be welcome at the local NOW”; “wouldn’t be welcome at the local NOW chapter dinner”. It most often appears alongside 80,000 Hours, ACX Grants, AI Impacts.

Metadata

• Category: Organizations
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: August 10, 2022
• Last seen: November 30, 2023

Appears In

• A Cyclic Theory Of Subcultures
• Contra DeBoer On Movement Shell Games

Related Pages

• • 80,000 Hours (1 shared issues)
• • ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
• • AI Impacts (1 shared issues)
• • AI safety researcher (1 shared issues)
• • Alcoholics Anonymous (1 shared issues)
• • alt-right (1 shared issues)
• • anti-racism (1 shared issues)
• • Biden (1 shared issues)
• • Bill Gates (1 shared issues)
• • Bishop of Rome (1 shared issues)
• • Camille Paglia (1 shared issues)
• • cancel culture (1 shared issues)

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• • https://anowrasteh.substack.com/p/review-of-the-culture-transplant-184
• • https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/lawyers-have-real-bad-day-in-court-after-citing-fake-cases-made-up-by-chatgpt/
• • https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07884
• • https://asteriskmag.com/issues/2/america-doesn-t-know-tofu
• • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/attempts-to-put-statistics-in-context
• • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-than-you-wanted
• • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lockdown-effectiveness-much-more
• • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-216/comment/5641206?s=w

Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

A Cyclic Theory Of Subcultures

August 10, 2022 · Original source

One way for this to happen is institutionalization. A movement rises. It founds some groups to promote its agenda. The fires of excitement die down, and the groups remain. Feminism is no longer as big a deal as it once was, but we still have NOW and Planned Parenthood. These institutions have stopped being social Ponzi schemes. You join them as a day job. You expect to work hard, and at best get a position commensurate to your talent and diligence. It’s not really worth criticizing the leadership, because everything happens through formal governance structures which are hard to affect. Most people who want to be feminists have already decided to support Planned Parenthood and not you. And you cannot take over Planned Parenthood unless you win over their Board of Directors, which you won’t.

Contra DeBoer On Movement Shell Games

November 30, 2023 · Original source

Camille Paglia calls herself a feminist and shares some foundational feminist beliefs, but she hates all the other feminists and vice versa. She thinks feminists should stop criticizing men, admit gender is mostly biological, stop talking about rape culture, and teach women to solve their own problems. She also has some random right-wing political beliefs like doubting global warming. So is she "a feminist" or not? I don't know. Marginally yes? She sure seems to think a lot about women, but probably wouldn't be welcome at the local NOW chapter dinner.

Inline links: Camille Paglia

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