throwawaymar2

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   by throwawaymar2 14y ago

   "except for political correctness or legal reasons" But this is why the gender, ethnicity, etc words are in there. Not having them in there causes people to assume that the author is racist or sexist, so they have to be in there to fores
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   by throwawaymar2 15y ago

   A world in which this was even mostly true would have considerably less emotional pain in it. Nice to imagine, anyway. At my workplace, there are probably 30 or 40 women I come into contact with during the course of my job, out of maybe 60
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   by throwawaymar2 15y ago

   sexism, as that's reserved for unwanted attention between the sexes That's harassment. Sexism is believing or acting as though one sex is intrinsically better than the other, as racism is the same with race. Sexism is not directly relat
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   by throwawaymar2 15y ago

   I confused about why he thinks it ironic that Nabakov is banned... I mean, it got grandfathered in when child porn laws were written, somehow, but it is certainly fiction about a paedophile, right? Anything that bans other kiddie-fiddler f
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   by throwawaymar2 16y ago

   I'm sure he does realize. The problem is that it's possible to believe this without being racist, but not possible in the US today to say it without appearing racist. It's one of the more obvious Things You Can't Say. I'm so concerned abo