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So we should just always give them male names. But we can't because whoever makes such decisions will bow to the pressure of feminism.
by javert 12y ago
So we should just always give them male names. But we can't because whoever makes such decisions will bow to the pressure of feminism.
- qq66 12y agoYou do realize that feminists are the ones who lobbied to go from all female names to half male, right? Meaning that if this dubious research is accurate, they saved lives.
- baddox 12y ago> Meaning that if this dubious research is accurate, they saved lives. That doesn't necessarily follow. It could be that people have on average a fixed amount of "preparedness" per unit time that they will spend on various events as they see fit. Switching from all female names to half female half male might have simply caused more of this preparedness to be spent on the half named after males, but the total amount of preparedness would be unchanged.
- qq66 12y agoI suppose that's possible, but it's the kind of claim that needs to be proven rather than disproven (just like the claim in the article, which is light-years from proven).
- pekk 12y agoThen it will save even more lives for every hurricane to be named after a metal band (e.g.: Destructinator.) Then we can apply suffixes, like "the Terrible" (Destructinator the Terrible). Then if that doesn't work well enough to change behavior, we can simply lie about the risks (Destructinator the Terrible will kill you unless you take shelter in Canada with 90% probability.) Hopefully this drumbeat of psychological warfare will cause the coastal residents to move hundreds of miles from the coasts and there will be no more hurricane deaths again. Then we can start naming tornados after biker bars.
- qq66 12y agoHah, your comment highlighted the ridiculousness of the article, but there's also some truth to it. Imagine you were considering moving to Florida, but they had recently been ravaged by "The Destructinator of Death" and the "Plague of Extreme Sorrows." It would probably give you more pause than thinking about Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina.
- PhasmaFelis 12y agoOh, those sinister feminists!
- pekk 12y agoOh, that awful society which never takes women seriously; it's so bad that people even die more from Camille, Katrina and Fifi! Let us raise consciousness of the endless woe to all women!
- nilved 12y agoFor what it's worth, I literally laughed out loud when you suggested that we blame women for being disrepected. Thanks for that.
- caseydurfee 12y agoIt's feminism's fault that this guy couldn't think of a coherent way to blame feminism for this. Ever notice how "mean" is an anagram for "a men" (an abbreviation for "all men")? After all, they don't call it the "womean". Therefore, statistics have a misandrist bias. #notallmean