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by Crake 13y ago
I'd recommend reading the Bible. There's a lot on the topic to be found there.
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by Crake 13y ago
> if you grew up female it was kind of hard to avoid >I also grew up in LA and not in the middle of some super conservative area >So much of it is so everyday if you spend enough time around frustrated women I grew up in a fundamen
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by Crake 13y ago
As a gender and sexual minority, I try to stay clear of feminists. (At least, when someone says they are one, I get wary.) They're some of the most GSM hostile people I've met. >The whole idea of feminism is inclusion, which me
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by Crake 13y ago
I like the term "false poverty effect." It'd be nice to have something to describe all the annoying people I've met who think they are "poor" but can hit their parents up for an interest free $100,000 "loa
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by Crake 13y ago
Saying "and deal with the girls" would get a lot of guys in trouble these days. Women too if you're on the internet where your gender is indeterminate, since feminists will get mad at you and assume you're an Oppressive
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by Crake 13y ago
Makes it a lot easier to get personalized letters of recommendation, too. My first year science and math professors all remember me, since the class sizes were small and enthusiastic students are easily noticed. I doubt that would have been
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by Crake 13y ago
Feminism doesn't know what it is. For every feminist who thinks it's about everyone, there's a feminist who thinks it's only about women. All of the legislation? The policies enacted and enforced? Created and aligned to
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by Crake 13y ago
They have equal opportunity. (Actually, no, women have greater opportunity than men do these days.) That's not a guarantee of equal outcome, though.
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by Crake 13y ago
I want to move to Europe someday (possibly), but while I love how liberal a lot of the place is and admire their strong social safety net, the tendency to shift discrimination around from one demographic to the next instead of trying to eli
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by Crake 13y ago
As a minority, I've always felt that "affirmative action" discrimination policies do me no favors. I wish more people understood how harmful they are.
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by Crake 13y ago
As a person in the demographic they claim to be trying to help, I'm confused too. I'M definitely uncomfortable with it, but according to these guys I'm too stupid to understand anything about my life.
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by Crake 13y ago
>a person disagrees with GFK >"must be one of those evil MRAs"
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by Crake 13y ago
>Rather than being blinded by preoccupation with historical "recognition" of hate, focus might instead be placed on justice in one's everyday life. Good luck getting feminists and other sjws to agree to that. :/
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by Crake 13y ago
Pregnancy?
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by Crake 13y ago
More opportunities these days for women than in the 1960s--they're off enjoying too many other things, in a lot of cases. If we expanded gender roles for men to encompass the same spread that women now have, maybe we'd see a bit m
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by Crake 13y ago
Damn, I knew science was a tool of the patriarchy!
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by Crake 13y ago
Oh good. I finally found a feminist who'll admit that their rivals are nicer to egalitarians than feminists are.
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by Crake 13y ago
I agree it's cultural. Theory: Women have more options now. They're choosing them. Men have the same options now as they did then. They're choosing from a much more limited selection pool.
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by Crake 13y ago
That might be because a lot of women prefer other fields. If you pick a random female and a random male, chances are the female has far less relevant tech experience than the male. Even in "tech," they're more likely to be HR
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by Crake 13y ago
I like how being a man is considered an insult these days. Woman who disagrees with feminism? Damn men!
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by Crake 13y ago
>This thread is 100% nerdy dudes feeling offended "anyone who disagrees with me is a man! " There are plenty of women here. You're just choosing to ignore and erase their existence because it invalidates your religion.
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by Crake 13y ago
You disagreed with him, there's no way you could be anything BUT a young white male! Stop appropriating your own oppression! (I also hated the disability metaphor.)
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by Crake 13y ago
Ah, the good old "whoever disagrees with me MUST be a man" argument. Pro-tip: women are capable of independent thinking. Some of them are not going to agree with what you decree is best for them.
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by Crake 13y ago
>I've rarely experienced that I've often experienced that. I'm experiencing it right now, in multiple places in this discussion. >And if you start looking at what earns people respect and power and what invites derision
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by Crake 13y ago
>When you go and talk to people who are women or brown or some intersection of these, one thing that's clear is that they feel much more comfortable when interacting with other folks whose lives and paths look like theirs. I agree c
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by Crake 13y ago
At least with my own disability/disabilities, I much prefer people to act normally around me. I absolutely feel othered if people go on forever about it. Able-bodied people can use ramps too. If I were in a wheelchair, I'd prefer
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by Crake 13y ago
Oh geez, what was I thinking, you're totally right. You've convinced me, I'll shut up and check my white cishet male shitlord privilege. >You'll learn about the blind spots. The exclusion. >you'll learn how to
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by Crake 13y ago
There isn't any blatant inequality except for the sex based discrimination being pushed on the field by feminists, which won't be corrected without pushback from egalitarians.
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by Crake 13y ago
I feel deeply uncomfortable with it as well. Getting paid $5,000 for having a vagina is usually something associated with, err, other industries. I'd feel much better if it were on the basis of financial need rather than which set of g
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by Crake 13y ago
Yeah, same. :/ Funny, isn't? All the Adria Richards of the world claiming to want to increase the exposure of women in tech are actively discouraging exactly that.

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