Two suggestions for discussing the Brent Dill affair:

— if you’re not involved with the Bay Area rat community, consider really hard whether you know enough about the situation to say valuable things. consider also that you probably don’t have a comparative advantage at analysis, either— the Bay Area rats are also rationalists and also really smart and also are likely to care more about the issue than you do.

(I am not a Bay Area rat so I have been avoiding having public object-level opinions.)

— it might be a good idea to taboo broad words like “feminism” or “the redpill”, and instead point out specific community norms/policies that respectively could be adopted or left behind.

this is because there’s a lot of things “feminism” and “the redpill” mean, and it’s difficult to separate them from the associations they have. (in particular, I’m concerned that unless there’s more concrete detail, parts of feminism that aren’t good ideas could be adopted along with important and good parts of feminism. I’m also concerned that important and good parts of feminism might be rejected by rationalists who would really benefit from them as a knee-jerk reaction.)

optimally, it would be explained how suggested changes in norms/policies would have altered the situation or will alter future similar situations.