# Comments on The Boyfriend's Introduction to Feminism

**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/comments-on-the-boyfriends-introduction-to-feminism/2108
**Category:** Elliot Temple
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**Created:** [September 25, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/comments-on-the-boyfriends-introduction-to-feminism/2108 "2025-09-25T19:11:21Z")
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### Author: ![anonymous45](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@anonymous45](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/anonymous45)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/comments-on-the-boyfriends-introduction-to-feminism/2108/257 "2025-10-12T00:10:39Z")

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> [@Elliot](#):
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> Why do you think searching for and evaluating rebuttals is unnecessary?

I don’t. But I often skip it if I don’t know how to do it efficiently.

I’ve found looking for rebuttals hard in the past (which isn’t a reason not to but it can be low yield).

I did a test just now both for the vax study and for redpill positions on dating. (I did the redpill one first because I was more focused on that, so spent more time on it too)

Vax study:

Okay I immediately found criticisms (though haven’t evaluated them). This seems due to it being referenced in a US senate hearing, and a documentary released on the 3rd (~8 days ago). So in this case I could have if I’d looked – which, thinking about it, makes a lot more sense to do with popular stuff people are discussing because there will be some people invested in writing a rebuttal. I think the criticisms are somewhat lacking, though it might be a distraction to go into details about that.

Redpill criticisms:

I looked for rebuttals to redpill positions around dating on YT and google. There are some decent criticisms of the more extreme redpill positions (which I mostly agree with), but it’s pretty superficial. There was also at some good points about contradictions or ridiculous asymmetries (which are pretty common and not extreme), but IMO those criticisms are limited and don’t address the core issues (and I didn’t hold any of the criticized views).

From YT I mostly got pro-redpill content for the searches:

- wrong about dating apps
- redpill wrong about dating apps
- why is redpill wrong about dating apps
- hypergamy isn’t real

One of the main sources of redpill criticism were youtubers selling dating courses. Maybe that’s a search bubble thing.

I searched google for the last two and got better results, but mostly general. I checked everything on the first page of both searches.

So looking at like 20+ videos and shorts, and reading or skimming like 15 articles, I didn’t find a good rebuttal for my position on dating apps or hypergamy. It wasn’t a waste of time, but it took a while (like 2 hours) and I didn’t find what I wanted.

> [@Elliot](#):
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> You can’t quickly find 20+ hours of YouTube videos related to dating app dynamics with a few searches right now? Are you excluding a large number of videos for some reason? What kinds of titles are you including or excluding as relevant?

Yes and no. Putting aside a lot of stuff being recent (last 24 months, there was less before), there are a lot of derivative or unoriginal takes. I’ll skip a lot of that if it feels like I’m not going to get any new ideas. There are also longer form things and I usually won’t listen to all of it, or count all of it as relevant.

I am not that confident about estimates of watch time. If I include everything I started watching and skipped through, it’d be higher.

re titles: I click on anything relevant. I do get suggested stuff that isn’t redpill content, too. [Example – _How I’d use dating apps if I were looking for love, based on research_, Psychology with Dr. Ana](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLXTucswAv0)

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Side note for @anonymous105, I found this during my YT searches for redpill criticisms. You might be curious to learn I pretty much agree with this thesis statement [_Why Red Pill Content Is Failing Both Men and Women_](https://www.youtube.com/v/F3AA7RZSZkg) (1:20). It’s from the guest in a whatever podcast debate. (Not sure about the full debate but I’m going to look for it.) FWIW in terms of claims made, the main thing I disagree with is at the end, that women’s behavior didn’t change.

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