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This book is available for a buck-99 on kindle today only. Bought it myself

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Yes, but this is neither a peculiarly female phenomenon nor a peculiarly rationalist one. In general, people in any group pretend they are more interested in, accomplished at, and devoted to the values of the group than they are in order to increase their status within the group. Since the aim is to deceive, of course they don't "baldly state their aims".

Rationalists are probably more rational than average and may do this less than most, but they are far from 100% rational, so naturally they do it some.

All groups attempt to detect and punish such hypocrisy since doing so is another way people can increase their relative status within a group (by diminishing that of others). Rationalists may judge such false presentation as being more anti-group values than other groups, but I think they are also more naive and less likely to detect it, so I don't know that they police it any more or more successfully than other groups.

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