Charlie Stross@tayfonay @Urban_Hermit No argument! He was an asshole (and his whole model of how the brain works was fundamentally flawed). But he was also a man of his times (and the phrase "unquestionable male privilege" BARELY begins to cover it).
His theories about female neuroses can easily be framed as an attempt to deny the existence of rampant [female] child sex abuse among the upper tiers of society from whom his clients were drawn ...
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