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Some may find this trite, but for me, the best part of the article is how one of the twins, James, gets absolutely thrown under the bus for being a stoner. Utte

Some may find this trite, but for me, the best part of the article is how one of the twins, James, gets absolutely thrown under the bus for being a stoner. Utterly savage.

josteink 7y ago
I thought it was funny too, in that it was a super-obvious attempt at reversing the typical gender-stereotypes: > Chloe, the oldest, is a math wiz with a coding job at Google; she hopes to start her own company soon. Smart. Successful. Can't be man. Must be a woman. > Will, who has a degree in social work Man assigned to non-stereotypical female role? Check! > James, a perpetually stoned underachiever, is convinced that he can make it as a YouTuber. The typical guys being lazy and stupid stereo-type, that's a bad stereotype... Can't put women in that one, can we? That would uh... not serve equality? So by desperately trying to reverse gender stereotypes, but bailing out where it's not beneficial to women to do the gender juxtaposition, this article helps highlight the gender stereo-types it wants to avoid more than anything else. Modern PC equality is pretty funny at it's heart :)
- yokaze 7y ago
  > this article helps highlight the gender stereo-types it wants to avoid more than anything else. What makes you think that they don't know that is highlighting stereotypes, and that is actually the intend?
- vore 7y ago
  They are literally just talking about what their children do. What do you expect them to say? Make up careers for them?
- ramblerman 7y ago
  > Modern PC equality is pretty funny at it's heart :) Do you realize you are doing the exact same thing as the PC equality types you mock, just from the other gender. It obviously annoys you that they chose the girl for the successful job, but that is precisely the same annoyance people have when they always read it's a man. You are picking and choosing examples, feeding your confirmation bias to get offended.

Some may find this trite, but for me, the best part of the article is how one of the twins, James, gets absolutely thrown under the bus for being a stoner. Utterly savage.

josteink 7y ago

I thought it was funny too, in that it was a super-obvious attempt at reversing the typical gender-stereotypes: > Chloe, the oldest, is a math wiz with a coding job at Google; she hopes to start her own company soon. Smart. Successful. Can't be man. Must be a woman. > Will, who has a degree in social work Man assigned to non-stereotypical female role? Check! > James, a perpetually stoned underachiever, is convinced that he can make it as a YouTuber. The typical guys being lazy and stupid stereo-type, that's a bad stereotype... Can't put women in that one, can we? That would uh... not serve equality? So by desperately trying to reverse gender stereotypes, but bailing out where it's not beneficial to women to do the gender juxtaposition, this article helps highlight the gender stereo-types it wants to avoid more than anything else. Modern PC equality is pretty funny at it's heart :)

yokaze 7y ago
> this article helps highlight the gender stereo-types it wants to avoid more than anything else. What makes you think that they don't know that is highlighting stereotypes, and that is actually the intend?
vore 7y ago
They are literally just talking about what their children do. What do you expect them to say? Make up careers for them?
ramblerman 7y ago
> Modern PC equality is pretty funny at it's heart :) Do you realize you are doing the exact same thing as the PC equality types you mock, just from the other gender. It obviously annoys you that they chose the girl for the successful job, but that is precisely the same annoyance people have when they always read it's a man. You are picking and choosing examples, feeding your confirmation bias to get offended.