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by detcader 12y ago
Women are historically and systematicall disadvanted as a class of people. "Geeks" hardly are -- in fact to become a target of "geek culture" marketing requires a significant degree of advantage in the first place. There
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by detcader 12y ago
Pop-up ads make sense too, don't they?
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How is that not taking liberties with interpretation? It's also possible that the writer simply feels that the industry (who said anything about "society"?) should strive to be gender neutral. More than one woman is reference
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by detcader 12y ago
Cool, does the evidence include the finding that only the women of the settlements wore the jewelry?
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by detcader 12y ago
The most complex kinds of objects that chimpanzees craft are tools. To posit that a psychological propensity for pieces of jewelry (a human invention) is inborn in only women is extraordinary and reeks of post-hoc logic. To posit that it
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by detcader 12y ago
"a tendency to adorn" is not the same as "a tendency to adorn oneself with jewelry", which is what I've been talking about -- are you talking to me? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Why should th
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by detcader 12y ago
That women talking about being girls is "flamebait" says more about you than the articles.
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by detcader 12y ago
You are missing their point. "Ninjas" and "rockstars" aren't particularly gendered (they actually are and we both know it but who would be honest enough to admit such a thing?) but "diva" certainly is. The
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by detcader 12y ago
Snark is the universal solvent of cultural conversation. - http://thatjohnbarnes.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-hate-snark.html...
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by detcader 12y ago
It's not. Such a thing would be impossible. Look up "gender socialization" and read about girlhood: http://www.metafilter.com/121190/teenage-girls-they-havent-b... http://www.theguardian.com&#
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by detcader 12y ago
There's a difference between female people and femininity. Not all women are into femininity to significant degrees or to any degree, and some see it as a questionable social construction [1]. The women in the article are simply propos
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by detcader 12y ago
Where do you think female interest in jewelry comes from? Are you implying that interest in jewelry is inborn in women? You are begging the question. The professor is concerned with general culture's image of women, which is perpetuate
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by detcader 12y ago
Because women don't need pocketknives or wear anything but heels...
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I have never heard of "training [] to think in terms of general equilibria". Where does one acquire such training? Is there a YouTube channel for that? Men benefit directly from how women suffer under gender. Did you read any of t
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"It doesn't capture the goals of the tea party movement for example." It doesn't have to, it just has to "capture" the reason that the movement gained popularity over any other movement. Theories explain why ph
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by detcader 12y ago
No, there isn't.
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by detcader 12y ago
"Gender expectations" (in other words, gender) are killing and hurting women and always have. Gender needs to go, ASAP. Instead of getting all theory-of-oppression on you, here's some real examples I think about when I think
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by detcader 12y ago
"Conservative" refers to the vague party/ideology that more smoothly (than "liberalism", that is) allows for-profit coroprations to co-opt the government to achieve the regulatory situation for maximal wealth accumu
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by detcader 12y ago
NYU sociologist Emily Kane's book The Gender Trap documents the closest we'll probably get to a study that explores that notion, in this century. I highly recommend it http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.as
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by detcader 12y ago
it just doesn't interest them as much I'd appreciate if you'd read something: http://reelgirl.com/2013/11/im-not-a-pilot-im-a-pilots-wife-... Edit: It's telling when people downvote a comment
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by detcader 12y ago
A LEGO block is sex-neutral, but the decades of marketing and LEGO character pieces certainly were not. LEGO can't take all the blame, given that many parents probably didn't buy LEGOs for their daughters given their own internali
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by detcader 12y ago
Our society markets cultural gender references to the extent that we instill into girls a dislike of “traditionally male” interests from early on. So could one say that we do need to focus on girls, to the extent that we recognize the s
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by detcader 12y ago
Even if human moderators are too much to ask for, which is totally understandable, LiveStream must have automatic filters.
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by detcader 12y ago
The lack of comment moderation on the LiveStream is atrocious. "It's just a livestream!" It's supposed to be a learning experience. Get moderators, please.
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by detcader 12y ago
From my experience when someone deems themselves above "extremist politics" they're someone who doesn't have to worry every day about the issues affecting those they're wagging their finger at. The single word &quot
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by detcader 12y ago
I personally like the non-forced feel of how it works now, though I agree luck is a factor. If it were "official," gaming will start instantly and the value of the meme drops (as with most things). People start fights like "I
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by detcader 12y ago
Until Guantanamo is closed the U.S. military will will always "be a net negative" from a human rights perspective.
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by detcader 12y ago
You can generalize about the incentives of the politicians who control the military. I'd be interested in discussing parts of the military that aren't related to U.S. imperialism. Care to bring one up?
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>>> s="""If you have files encrypted by TrueCrypt on Linux: Use any integrated support for encryption. Search available installation packages for words encryption and crypt, install any of the packages found and foll
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by detcader 12y ago
You're misinformed. "Radical" in "radical feminism" doesn't mean, has nothing to do with, "ultra"; it means a very specific strain of ideas, far from third-wave feminism.

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