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by Crake 13y ago
Without getting into specifics, as what the SRWs generally consider to be an "underprivileged" person or whatever...I have been feeling the same way as your wife lately QUITE a lot. It makes it so that actual victims of sexual ass
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by Crake 13y ago
I don't really see any of this...although I do see a lot of examples of female privilege going on in the comments. The type of women in tech we need are normal people who don't social justice blog for 14 hours a day on their tumbl
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by Crake 13y ago
That if you are white, or cis, or a male, then you are innately evil and do not deserve to be treated with the respect that all humans deserve.
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by Crake 13y ago
Just like tumblr is ground zero for privileged females attending $30,000/year liberal arts colleges for women's studies, right?
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by Crake 13y ago
RAPE CULTURE or is it LAND CULTURE? perhaps it is MER CULTURE?? (I haven't seen that movie in a long while.)
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by Crake 13y ago
Oh my god. Really? Guess you better go tell a bunch of little girls that they aren't allowed to like whatever their favorite female Disney protagonist happens to be.
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by Crake 13y ago
It's a power differential thing, I think. What's most baffling is that... With feminists: It's ok if women want sex, but not ok for men to want sex. With fundamentalist conservatives: It's ok if men want sex, but not ok
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by Crake 13y ago
Sex-negative feminists and sex-negative Christians have a weirdly large amount of things in common at times.
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by Crake 13y ago
>stop believing what science tells you You can't be serious. Someone on Hacker News advocating not to believe in science? Really?
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by Crake 13y ago
Not all societies were patriarchies. Some are/were matriarchies. There were even some (like Sparta) that treated their women pretty equally.
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by Crake 13y ago
Men have been the target of systematic oppression for millenia, too, you know. Throughout all of history, it's men that have been forced to fight and die in wars without any choice in the matter. There's a lot of raping of males t
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by Crake 13y ago
Well, it probably helps that male rape culture is in full effect. In the UK, it's legally not even possible for a woman to rape a male. Most US organizations won't count it either--the FBI found almost a 50/50 ratio of male a
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by Crake 13y ago
>To state plainly what I see in this topic: white men talking about feminism presumptuously. White knighting; "as a man, I..."; mansplaining. But how do you know the person you're talking to is male? Or white? The person m
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by Crake 13y ago
>You boys need a lesson in basic empathy. Incidentally, not everyone here who disagrees with you is a cismale. Please save the patronizing condescension for your tumblr blog. When people hit on me, and/or won't leave me alone,
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by Crake 13y ago
They may...or if they've recovered, they may not. The goal is usually to become able to react to things normally again, not become permanently stuck in damaged victim status for forever. People do manage to get over their triggers with
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by Crake 13y ago
I play video games on my tv on my couch with a wireless xbox controller and use my game console for other media. My "game console" being my pc. Is it really that hard to run an hdmi cable in 2013?
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by Crake 13y ago
omg. only 58 days of sunshine!? I think I need to move to this place for at least part of my life.
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by Crake 13y ago
Oh god yes. I looooooooove rain and cloudy days, but hate heat and sunlight. No Texas for me, I think!!
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by Crake 13y ago
Yeah, most of the people who get on the PoC privilege train clearly haven't interacted with low income people for a while. I saw a girl from a $70,000+/year family say once that her family was lower middle class. wtf. One of the worst SRWs
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by Crake 13y ago
They profess to be above such concerns. Having to worry about food and rent money is too mundane for such a sophisticated mind, didn't you know? Less readily disclosed is the fact that their parents are paying for everything but maybe the b
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by Crake 13y ago
"I have little patience for critics who don’t see the value in a liberal arts education. We don’t mock people who have children -- and there’s no practical value to having children." The fact that after spending so much money on his libarts
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by Crake 13y ago
This isn't the pre internet age, though. There are plenty of people with degrees and advanced degrees you can find on meetup.com to enjoy IRL discussions with on a certain topic.
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by Crake 13y ago
TFA says: "I wasn't being bullied because I was sensitive, in other words. I was being bullied because I was privileged" and that his refusal to accept this was "but simply an excuse to perpetuate" the "system of power." What the fuck, man.
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by Crake 13y ago
How the heck did you end up here? Do you learn coding on the side? I've tried to get one or two of my english majors friends into coding, since I thought it'd be a good complementary skill set, but it didn't really catch. If you're really g
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by Crake 13y ago
It's really great to see poor white people considered as people in need. (It would have been even better if the article considered poor asians, too. They're not all rich doctors.) It's a huge demographic that's desperately in need of help,
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by Crake 13y ago
If you think the IT contracts are bad, you should see the process they have (or in some cases, had) for DoD matters. Absolutely crazy.
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by Crake 13y ago
Plus the people who do the paper apps processing probably don't want to have their jobs eliminated and have an interest in refusing new (if computers can be considered "new") technology. Even if it means letting vets die due to the needless
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by Crake 13y ago
He's actually working on it. You'll notice that the Roadster was super expensive ($90,000), but they rolled the money over into R&D to make the Tesla S ($60,000), money from which they will then roll over into R&D for an even cheape
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by Crake 13y ago
I love Carl Zimmer. Great article, it was super interesting.
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by Crake 13y ago
I've been getting the Mountain's High brand, mostly because it's cheapest ($2.50ish for a decent size container). It may be seen in this (somewhat bewildering) piece of fine art: https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p480x480/551892_

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