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by detcader 12y ago
You hold that Islamist terrorists must necessarily have the (vaguely defined by you) motive of "provoking the US", when most Islamist attackers on the U.S. have consistently cited a particular political motive? [1] And yes, it wou
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by detcader 12y ago
I guarentee that Glenn Greenwald would still be blogging if he hadn't gone Salon -> Guardian -> Intercept. And I don't see how what he did wouldn't still be still possible...
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by detcader 12y ago
PasswordCard does give you a seed number to generate the same card, though..
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by detcader 12y ago
The body of your second version of __init__() in one line: self.min, self.max = sorted((min, max)) This may be what was meant with the sentence that claims "but eventually you'll need a line like this outside of init" but I&#
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by detcader 12y ago
"People treat girls and boys differently from an early age, giving them different feedback and expectations." Bold, italicize, underline. So many of my fellow men would never dispute that organized religion is only sustained throu
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by detcader 12y ago
It will certainly take more than referring to men as "people" when what is actually meant is "men", the perpetrators of the abuse you refer to.
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Alfreda Bikowsky, the Senior Officer at the Center of the CIA’s Torture Scandals(firstlook.org)
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by detcader 12y ago
"Last week, the Obama administration announced its choice to lead the Federal Communications Commission: Tom Wheeler, who is not only a former telecom lobbyist but also a huge bundler for the Obama campaign. The New York Times Editoria
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by detcader 12y ago
Is porn really "taboo"? Or is the idea merely useful for justifying the state of the industry? What is OP's response to Robert Jensen [1], Germaine Greer [2], Corina Taylor [3], Clara Bennathan [4], Meghan Murphy [5], and Gai
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by detcader 12y ago
Cordelia Fine's _Delusions of Gender_, evopsych is largely for bullying [1], etc etc. [1] http://francoistremblay.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/evolutionar...
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by detcader 12y ago
Are you saying the US is significantly different from the countries surveyed by the UN? Why would this be the assumption?
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by detcader 12y ago
@duncan_bayne - men exist as a *class of human beings. This is how social systems work. This is what I mean -- if people were familiar with feminist thought there wouldn't be these basic misunderstandings. Try: Oppression by Marilyn Fr
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by detcader 12y ago
>in the same way that douchebag men are actually (as you point out) pretty rare "One in four men admitted raping a woman once in their life according to a report from United Nations. The study was conducted through interviewing 10,0
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by detcader 12y ago
What? Women are in a different position from men here, so "swapping the genders" just makes it a statement I wouldn't endorse. What "collectivism" are you talking about? What "problem" are you talking abou
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by detcader 12y ago
Another case of being forced to euphemize by the fear of the culture you're trying to critique. It's men. "Fuckwad" "douchebag" are code for men. Why can't we just name the problem? Because we fear that th
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by detcader 12y ago
Here's some links from media outlets that have an actual history of representing the black population and other oppressed groups: http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/08/what_to_read_about_fe... http:&#x
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by detcader 12y ago
People need to learn the difference between descriptive and prescriptive ideas. Observating that Apple isn't diverse in a certain way is not the same as saying Apple is the problem. In fact I don't think most people believe that A
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Stop Looking For 'Hardwired' Differences In Male And Female Brains(popsci.com)
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Building a Professional Firewall with Linux and Iptables(danielmiessler.com)
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by detcader 12y ago
This piece is a textbook example of snark [1] and I invite anyone to convince me its usefulness. [1] http://thatjohnbarnes.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-hate-snark.html
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by detcader 12y ago
The reason doesn't have to be biological, but rather could easily be about power -- these women do a better job at elaborating than I ever could: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/feminist-current/2014&#x2F
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by detcader 12y ago
Not at all, actually. Douglas Adams dispensies with this notion in his 1998 Digital Biota 2 speech, in the paragraphs starting with "Where does the idea of God come from?" [1] [1] http://www.biota.org/people/d
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People are naturally concerned with interpreting and putting into practice the will of God, a concern which is re-inforced and exaggerated by established religion. This also makes us tend to do relatively useless things like go to weekly ch
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by detcader 12y ago
Your comments that "women at the mall seem to like jewelry" eminates the implicit assumption that this is a natural trend that will persist deterministically (as in, women who don't like jewelry are natural outliers). I am me
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by detcader 12y ago
Is it so hard to agree with the idea that you do in fact live in a different reality? You and I are naturally blind to what women experience. Doing deductive reasoning is impossible -- the best tool in developing a holistic understanding of
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by detcader 12y ago
I refuse to try to say something better than what has already been said if I feel I couldn't do a better job [1] [1] http://web.calstatela.edu/faculty/tbettch/Frye,%20Oppression...
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by detcader 12y ago
Most of the world population is religious (or was for most of civilization's history, if the scales have tipped recently) -- perhaps we should assume that belief in God is inborn? I will break it down if that doesn't suffice: Befo
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Indeed, OP's claim that he has "the exact same problem" is a lie. There is danger in obfuscating the realities of being part of a social class.
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Should we assume that men have a natural tendency to cry a bit less because men cry less often? The articles are more strongly consistent with the theory of gender socialization -- that the media et al coerces girls to focus (obsess, kill t
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by detcader 12y ago
That's a good point. Criticizing top tech companies is more marketable as journalism than doing deeper cultural analysis -- so you aren't going to see the women doing the deeper cultural analysis as often (though I would argue tha

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