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Ashley Madison Blackmail Letter Revealed (grahamcluley.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Security researcher Graham Cluley says he has been forwarded a blackmail letter, sent to a member of the controversial Ashley Madison adultery website. In the letter the blackmailer says that unless $2,000 worth of bitcoin is paid within 10 days, the recipient's wife, friends and colleagues will be informed of his misdemeanors. In a threatening twist, the letter goes on to give personal details of another victim who refused to pay the blackmailers, and how his personal life and work were targeted as a result. Cluley's advice to recipients is not to pay the blackmailers, but to tell the U.S. Postal Inspectors Service.
>unless $2000 worth of bitcoin is not paid
This is what you get.
This is one of the few cases where I don't support the activities of any party involved; the hackers for what they did, the website for providing/promoting such blatant infidelity, nor the people who use the site.
However, in this case, the people I support the least are the people who took their marriage vows so lightly they're using a website to cheat. It's absolutely disgusting. You get what you deserve. What to avoid the collateral damage; don't cheat. But, since you're past that point; you might as well fess up to it; and make sure you tell your family you're only coming clean about it due to a threat of blackmail. It'll make them see your character for what it really is.
Quite frankly, screw everyone all around in this ordeal. It's disgusting we're still talking about this.
In the letter the blackmailer says that unless $2000 worth of bitcoin is not paid within 10 days,
I say give them what they want.
They will continue to blackmail you. Why wouldn't they when so successful the first time? It's not like they're trustworthy or anything. If you're stupid enough to get involved with Ashley Madison in the first place, then just fess up to your wife and family and deal with the consequences. But, in the end, most of us will have no sympathy for either the scumbags who use Ashley Madison or those who blackmail them.
If you pay blackmail, you only show that blackmailing you is an effective way of making money, and thus encourage more blackmail.
The real crime: using ragged right instead of Knuth and Plass' algorithm!
"My marriage is over and everyone already knows I'm an unethical bastard. Go nuts!"
It's interesting that in the letter, the blackmailer provides no information about the recipient apart from his name and address. He lists all of the information about his prior victim, but my guess is that it's all part of his ruse. I suspect that the websites are fake and the phone number is a line straight to the blackmailer, who will corroborate the story whenever any of the many recipients of his letters call.
This requires more money to set up than an email, but the blackmailer knows that ``The wicked flee when no man pursueth."
"unless $2000 in bitcoin is not paid"
I'm sure I'd be willing to not pay $2000 in bitcoin to have my dirty laundry kept out of sight.
n a threatening twist, the letter goes on to give personal details of another victim who refused to pay the blackmailers, and how his personal life and work were targeted as a result.
Unless what purportedly happened to the "other victim" is verifiable, this is no different than what one used to read in an old fashioned chain letter. Those would invariably tell you about the riches and good fortune that had happened to (named) people who forwarded the letter to x numbers of their friends; then spell out all the troubles and misfortunes experienced by other (named) individuals who'd failed to pass the letter along within the requisite period of time. It was all imaginary nonsense.
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So, you consider it "rape" when the man goes on a website whose express purpose is to get him laid... a woman also goes on the website whose purpose, again, is to get her laid... and the woman opens up enough details about herself to the man in order for them to meet in order to have sex?
Man: Let's do it.
Woman: OK.
(both get naked and start fooling around)
Woman: RAPE!!!!
Is this what you consider "Rape Culture"? That's what I'm getting from it.
While being an active user of Ashley Madison may indicate an intent to cheat, a vanishingly small amount of men are successfully cheating with women who use the site.
The site only sells the fantasy of cheating with their bots.
You don't send blackmail letters IN THE MAIL.
This is now a federal crime, and the post office inspectors office, and probably the FBI, gets involved. Since this is in the news, they will probably be very interested in this case, as well.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
However, in this case, the people I support the least are the people who took their marriage vows so lightly they're using a website to cheat. It's absolutely disgusting. You get what you deserve. What to avoid the collateral damage; don't cheat. But, since you're past that point; you might as well fess up to it; and make sure you tell your family you're only coming clean about it due to a threat of blackmail. It'll make them see your character for what it really is.
I know a couple of acquaintances (not well but I do know them) who cheated on their wives with co-workers. This has nothing to do with Ashley Madison. In neither case did the wife have any idea. Both guys felt guilt-ridden about cheating, so they decided to come clean. In both cases the marriages were over on the spot. In one case the guy literally got asked by his wife to leave their house immediately and I know this because the guy he stayed with for a while is a friend of mine, not just an acquaintance. Some people really do not respond in a forgiving way to infidelity. In such cases it might be best to either deny it and claim to be an innocent victim or to try for what I'll call "pleading to a lesser charge" by admitting joining the site but denying actually ever meeting any one by it. There's a lot of evidence that a lot of female members were made up and while some spouses may not forgive you for even joining, I guess there's some chance that "It was a huge mistake and I never actually did anything" might work with a few of them.
That's a part of rape culture. What rape culture really means I've come to find doesn't really have anything to do with the act of rape. It's about FEEL GUILTY! As far as feminism is concerned, the fact that rape cultures require policies that can expel anybody assigned the male gender at birth for any baseless accusation of intention (not even an accusation of the act) is a pleasant side effect.
Also, GP probably considers any sexual act between a cisgendered woman and somebody assigned the male gender at birth to be rape. Why did I need to pull out the much-hated term cisgendered there? Lest we forget, trans women are guilty of metaphysical rape for violating the female form and invading women. I hate to break it to you, anti-SJWs, but this part of your transphobic rhetoric is straight out of 2nd wave feminism.
Logging in to post this even though it'll go to -1 by the top of the hour because what I'm saying is true. Anybody who doubts me should contact their state university and ask to be able to sit through a rape culture presentation. Also look up Camp Trans. They can educate you about feminism's utter hatred for trans women.
Rape culture outside of college campuses is a big reason I'm currently at cold war with feminism. Feminism wants to control my body in retaliation for their perception I want to control cis women's bodies, simply because I was involuntarily placed in a role in a women's health initiative that my cisfemale co-workers refused to participate in.
(Well, I suppose it was voluntary. I could have lost my job, my house, and starved to death instead. However, that's looking like the better choice in hindsight if the place I'm going next week to get my prescriptions renewed has also implemented rape culture.)
Disclaimer: this may hold true only in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and southern Ontario--basically anywhere within the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival reality distortion field, but I understand that rape cultures have been implemented at several other prominent universities across the USA.
Freedom of speech, man.
oh geeze, here we go with the SJW codewords.
Why don't you drag in how GAMERGATE uses SYSTEMD to contaminate your HOSTS file while your at it so we can have a proper flamefest.
So, you say that women do not cheat? I wonder all those cheating man [according to feminist 90 % at least] - with who are they cheating? Goats? Or are there 1000 super women on earth that can have 100 000 000 lovers each? Remember, when the scandal came out it was shown that 90 or more percent of the users of the site are men and everyone was like "see how terrible men are, bloody cheaters" , was I the only one that asked the question above?
I am so fed up with this crap!!! And your user name suggest you are a man! WTF? Get a grip of reality MAN!
This is absolutely NOT about the systematic patriarchal oppression of women. It's about the systematic financial exploitation of men via bots.
Also, who says that every guy on the site was married? Or even real?
As a society we've already decided that consensual sex between two or more adults is their business. Not yours. Not mine. Not the governments.
Not only does the website promote the exploitation (rape) of sex workers, by promoting the idea of illicit and decietful "affairs" it also denies couples the agency of exploriing open, non-binary, non-monogamous, and especially homosexual, pansexual and transsexual expieriences.
This is utter nonsense. A web site that promotes consensual sex is not promoting the exploitation of sex workers. To the contrary, pimps are probably the ones who would benefit the most if such sites were shut down. And certainly this doesn't prevent people from "exploriing open, non-binary, non-monogamous, and especially homosexual, pansexual and transsexual experiences." To the contrary, it promotes non-monogamous experiences. And there is an overwhelming abundance of apps and other web sites that allow people to get their kicks in all the other ways listed. So it doesn't actively promote these ... so what? That's like saying that a hardware store is bad because it doesn't promote vegan food. Or that a men's clothing store is oppressive because it doesn't sell women's clothes.
Besides, people were already exploring all these alternatives long before the internet. Closing down the whole internet won't stop any of it.
But the worst part? To say "The Government needs to step in and protect women from monstrous internet sites like this" is to say that women aren't able to manage their own affairs (pun intended) and need big brother to step in. Now THAT reinforces patriarchal stereotypes ... and it's more than a bit insulting.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
What rape culture really means I've come to find doesn't really have anything to do with the act of rape.
That's the only sentence even close to being right.
Rape culture is the set of ideas about how people should be pressured into sex, or unwanted contact like kissing and sexual touching. The idea that you can go to a bar, find someone, and get them drunk so they are more likely to have sex with you or at least let you cop a feel and that's just "game" or what happens in bars is rape culture. The idea that if someone tells you "no", you can just ask them another 50 times until they say yes because they are probably just playing hard to get is rape culture.
I imagine to some people that doesn't sound very controversial. Most people I'm friends with would never do any of that stuff, but it's important to remember a) where we were 40 years ago and b) that some people still think it's okay.
Remember that marital rape was acceptable at one point. Remember that people often blame the victims of rape and sexual assault for getting drunk, or going to a bar, or wearing a particular outfit. While perhaps inadvisable, none of that is a signal to others that this person is sexually available to them.
All this crap about feeling guilty and oppressing men is just that, crap. If you feel guilty because someone pointed out to you that you should really get informed, enthusiastic consent before getting physical, you have to ask yourself why that makes you uncomfortable.
I'm a guy. When I touch a woman I want her to be happy about it, to enjoy it, to feel my expression of love or lust or whatever. Does this make me some kind of "pussy" or beta male? Is making her unhappy really the "masculine", manly thing to do? Or even the moral thing to do?
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Use a white envelope.
Still.... I wouldn't want to go toe-to-toe with the postmaster general.... he checks his blood sugar and checks it often...
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
Extortion is a federal crime. Call your local FBI office. They actually do investigate and prosecute this type of thing. They're only human; they don't know until you tell them. https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
We are still rather feral when it comes to sex. The basic biological response to sexual attractiveness occurs in all humans equipped with working sex organs. There are people who are able to suppress the mental urge to seek a mate, but the physical response is still there. Only about 3 percent of mammals are monogamous. Most great apes are promiscuous. As humans, we have to wrestle with our vestigial urge to fuck and be fucked, with the societal contradiction that sex is bad and should never be talked about openly while being force fed overtly sexualized media and marketing material.
Jesus fucking Christ. This is a technology discussion website. Looking at your history, you post this same shit to "Former Mozilla CEO" discussion, to "lack of quality journalism" discussion, to "10 year old Muslim Boy" discussion, I'm sure I could go on but you get the point. You suck and what you have to say is irrelevant to the discussions at hand.
The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival had its final event last year. It's dead. One more group of TERFs turfed.
Now if any pharmacy tries to stigmatize you for your meds, there's a simple solution - report them to the head office. You can be sure it will stop damned fast. And in the meantime, if part of rape culture is about feeling guilty, that part can also be dealt with - refuse to feel guilty. Don't accept the stigma. Ultimately, the only person who can make you feel guilty is yourself, if you allow yourself to buy into their mindset that you *should* feel guilty.
Feminism is going to slowly die out. 60% of all university graduates are women. That is 50% more women than men. As they work their way up in the professions and the old guard dies off, men are going to become the minority at every level. Men, on the other hand, are not entering the professions in anywhere near the same numbers, which means that the imbalance in incomes will tilt towards women as the non-professional jobs see more competition for fewer posts thanks to increased automation.
It's not going to happen tomorrow, or this decade, but it IS going to happen, and it's too late to stop it. :-)
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
I 100% now follow through with my threat and tell everyone you know about it. It's just good business.
By making this threat public, the blackmailee basically dared the blackmailers to make good on their threat and gave them a great marketing opportunity. The blackmailers don't give 2 emu shits about him cheating, they want money. Normally, there's no profit in actually following through with the threat, its just time that could be better used by sending out threats which generate money. However, since Cheater McDumbfuck went public, the blackmailers now have a chance to let future blackmailees that they are serious and will follow through with their threats, thus improving their ROI for sending out threats in the future.
This is why you don't negotiate or even recognize terrorists.
Why did I need to pull out the much-hated term cisgendered there? Lest we forget, trans women are guilty of metaphysical rape for violating the female form and invading women.
what I'm saying is true.
The reason you get modded down and sound like a fool is you're just spewing utterly random shit. The "cold war" you have with feminism is entirely of your own invention.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
(tl;dr instructions: please go to the "--->" mark and read until the other "--->" mark. Mods: go ahead and mod everybody in this thread off-topic (especially me), but I needed to post GP and this comment as well because I'm about 3 minutes from midnight in my little cold war. There will be mutually assured destruction and probably some other -gategate when/if feminism and I reach midnight.)
Rape culture is the set of ideas about how people should be pressured into sex, or unwanted contact like kissing and sexual touching.
That's where it starts. That's what it should be. Over here in flyover country that turns into an accusation that all men are not only heterosexual, not only tempted to rape, but actually have raped a woman and have access to drugs like Ecstasy.
All this crap about feeling guilty and oppressing men is just that, crap.
Then why does it end up having that effect? I'm not a man (only am in the view of Michigan feminists and other bigots), but I am apparently now being affected in a tangible way. I wish I could live in the world you apparently live in. It sounds much better than my reality at the moment.
Obvious example is obvious. In 2012 every major news organization trumpeted forth news that men's genitals should be mutilated at birth to prevent women from getting a form of HPV that can lead to cervical cancer. Do I even need to point out everything wrong with that even from the standpoint of a prevention measure? The other part of the one-two punch was that the USA was in the middle wringing its hands about whether giving teenage girls the HPV vaccine was moral or not.
If you feel guilty because someone pointed out to you that you should really get informed, enthusiastic consent before getting physical, you have to ask yourself why that makes you uncomfortable.
I'm not sure why that should make me feel uncomfortable. When a TERF proceeds to misgender me, tell me I'm attracted to people I'm not, tell me I have intentions I don't, and tell me that I'm lucky I haven't been caught in the act yet, that's where I start feeling uncomfortable.
When I learn that, should somebody accuse me of raping a specific woman, that there is no possible amount of evidence I could ever present that I didn't even have sex with her, that's when I begin to feel resentment. That's when I begin to realize that I am in a hostile environment.
In fact, the cold war feminism has declared on me really started way back when I was told just that at Grand Valley State University during a presentation that all assigned males were require to attend. I could dismiss everything other time before that I've been on the receiving end of sexism as just attending a crap school district.
It's only recently that the stockpiling of nuclear bombs has begun; before it was just a skirmish here or there. There were even a few months when I scrambled my old UID where I was starting to think I had been wrong about feminism all along.
I'm still receptive to the idea that you're not just posting from an alternate dimension from mine. However, somehow if I'm wrong about feminism, feminism needs to realize it's wrong about me as well, and we need to begin the careful healing process of sealing up the nuclear weapons for good.
I don't know how that can happen. I need access to a local doctor first. I don't know what feminism needs from me other than to magically grow a womb. I'd do it too as soon as they tell me the magic words. I'm somebody who has called out sexual harassment. I'm somebody who mentors women programmers. What else could I possibly do?
If the intention was to show me what being on the receiving end of sexism is like, this is my message to feminism: I fucking get it already.
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I've fucking got it since third grade when I was actively discriminated against unapologetically and with full knowledge on the part of the person
I'm surprised and glad to hear the news about MWMF.
Now if any pharmacy tries to stigmatize you for your meds, there's a simple solution - report them to the head office.
We'll see what happens when I get to that stage. My main problem is that my prescription is too old and from a doctor who retired long ago, and I don't have one for another med.
refuse to feel guilty
This has essentially been my New Year's resolution, so thank you for your encouragement. I'm no longer willing to feel guilty about the problem of the lack of women programmers or about any individual women I was unable to help learn programming, because never once have I doubted that women can program computers (except perhaps on my old UID out of sheer frustration). I'm not going to feel guilty about rape and date rape, because I am not a rapist. If I ever go back to school, there will be a lawsuit if they force me to sit through another rape culture presentation on the basis of my gender at birth.
(That's what I should have done in the first place, but I didn't realize they were serious and I was too young and stupid to connect the dots.)
which means that the imbalance in incomes will tilt towards women
I hope you've remembered your fireproof suit! My alter ego on the other site would say, "As it should be" and probably spin a yarn about Amazons.
and it's too late to stop it
Good. Whatever feminism is or isn't, whether I'm saying "good" spitefully or hopefully: good.
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60% of all university graduates are women. That is 50% more women than men.
What percentage are required to take math?
The "cold war" you have with feminism is entirely of your own invention.
It could be. We'll see. I'm hoping I won't need to start a lawsuit to find out. If I've imagined the whole thing up from dealing with one too many sexists, then I must just have incredibly bad luck. Well, I do have bad luck, but if I'm imagining it, it's a ton of coincidences especially in the past 2 years or so.
As I suggested in another comment, mods can feel free to mod bomb GP and probably this entire thread. I'm not certain why GP is at +2 right now.
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US Postal Inspectors Service.
It really is called USPIS? I thought Brooklyn Nine Nine made that up.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Disregard sibling comment, I suck cocks.
See the comments section here.
TERFs are alive and well. Here are some choice comments. (Not accommodating Slashdot's missing unicode support.)
Wendy Lev Â
A women's festival's end where females found freedom, safety, community often for the first time in their lives, is celebrated. This is misogynistic to the core. And lesbophobic. No wonder many lesbians stop supporting orgs that are supposed to stand up for them. And stop supporting trans women.
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Wendy Lev Â
Elle Wong, Im so done with hateful bigots like you, having no clue what women deal with from birth on, and having no respect. That harass lesbians because we arent into penis. Get a grip, the world doesnt revolve around you.
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Responding to Elle Wong  Berea College
THANK YOU TRANS JESUS now this bastion of privilege and exclusion can finally die
Charlotte Schnook  University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Sure, because women are so privileged... Sheesh....
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Responding to Clara Jackson  Works at Center for Spiritual Living Greater Dayton
I thought the same thing... it is a very old story. It is a private business and she isn't breaking any laws, so ultimately it is her decision as the business owner as to what she does... it is just such a shame that people are so unwilling to engage in constructive dialogue...everyone seems so intent on finding ways to prove their point and few seem willing to consider another viewpoint. So long as that is the primary method of "communication" the struggle will continue... not only here but in partisan politics and anywhere there is significantly differing viewpoints... so sad... if only we could respect ourselves and others enough to feel engage in communication with the objective of understanding instead of being right.
Katie Berger Tremaine  Author/Novelist at K. L. Tremaine
Dialogue was attempted for 22 years, you know that, right? It's only in the last couple of years that boycott was called for, because of the ongoing pattern of open contempt from MWMF.
(Note: it would seem I'm doing the exact same thing Jackson is talking about here, but the reason is clear and Tremaine hits the nail on the head. It sounds like the only reason MWMF is closing their doors is because they can't get any artists any more due to their own boneheadedness.)
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Charlotte Schnook (again) Â University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Exactly! Isn't so funny how those to claim to be women, don't understand why women would need to have a space for their shared healing and celebration? We whom have done our research know why they don't get it: because women aren't a class to them, they aren't humans with feelings, just sex objects to be appropriated...
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etc, etc
War never changes.
Check out Planned Parenthood - some of them also offer transgender hormone services. Those that don't yet do so can probably refer you to someone who can help. :-)
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Let me dumb it down for you (since you're obviously a man and can't do math) - for every 40 men graduating, 60 women are graduating. For every 4 men, that's 6 women. For every 2 men, that's 3 women. 3 is 50% larger than 2. Now you know why more women are getting into professions than men - men can't do math. (But we already knew that - the original "computers" were women).
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
So what? How do any of these fringe idiots affect anything? Nobody even knows they exist. I'm more concerned with the bad treatment the Human Rights Campaign has been giving us, both publicly and privately, for years because if you're not a white gay male, you're nothing, while pretending to the politicians, funders, and general public that they somehow speak for anyone who isn't a member of the gay white male mafia.
Quotes from the audit:
"Staff at the Human Rights Campaign last fall described the working environment at the nation’s largest LGBT rights group as “judgmental,” “exclusionary,” “sexist,” and “homogenous
"“Leadership culture is experienced as homogenous — gay, white, male,” the report stated. “Exclusion was broad-based and hit all identity groups within HRC. A judgmental working environment, particularly concerning women and feminine-identified individuals, was highlighted in survey responses.”
"Among those issues were findings that “[t]rans* people don’t feel safe to come out at HRC,” noting that some staff “work for years at HRC before coming out as trans.”
"The report also notes that “trans* people are frequently misgendered with the wrong pronouns, after repeated corrections.”
"Younger staff in particular are exploited and not rewarded financially.” Another said, “Straight women and lesbians get sexist treatment from gay men at HRC.”
“Seven out of 31 men who have been promoted have been on staff less than two years (some promoted two times). No women under two years have been promoted.”
There's more. To hell with them. We don't need them, never have needed them, and they're doing more harm than good. Let them go sit on a bathroom plunger instead of screwing everyone else over.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Hmm... more actors show up on the board. I will look more into the HRC.
Chad Griffin:
Like many organizations and companies throughout our country, HRC has embarked on a thoughtful and comprehensive diversity and inclusion effort with the goals of better representing the communities we serve â" and hiring, nurturing and retaining a workforce that not only looks like America
Heh, looks like America, in other words a complete mess, divorced from its founding principles.
The report notes, âoeSeven out of 31 men who have been promoted have been on staff less than two years (some promoted two times). No women under two years have been promoted.â
The report also notes that âoe[t]rans* people are frequently misgendered with the wrong pronouns, after repeated corrections.â
Oh god! Is this the gay agenda at work? May I get a copy from the HRC?
Eh, I'm just drunk. Further investigation is warranted.
Just scroll down to the bottom of the article ... :-)
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
You are using a very unconventional interpretation of "50% more".
If group A has "50% more" cheese than group B, the general interpretation of that idea is that Group B's slice of the pie, subtracted from Group A's slice of the pie, will leave 1/2 the total pie. IE: a difference of 50%.
A more traditional way of saying the same thing:
"60% of all university graduates are women. That is 20% more women than men."
Group A = 60% of pie. Group B therefore has 40% of the pie. IE: 60-40=20% more.
The "That is 20% more women than men" part is somewhat redundant since it is obvious to the audience that men+women = 100% of university graduates.
Your perversion of "50% more" does nothing to clarify the statistic and only serves to emphasize your position through disingenuous use of ambiguous language to sound impressive. If you meant to say that for every 2 men who graduate that 3 women graduate you should have said as much.
Your specific choice of "university graduate" also leads me to believe that the ratio of males who graduate from colleges are more evenly balanced.
Let's make it REALLY simple. You have two pennies. I have three. I have 50% more pennies than you do. You have 33-1/3% (1/3) less than I do.
Your perversion of "50% more" does nothing to clarify the statistic and only serves to emphasize your position through disingenuous use of ambiguous language to sound impressive. If you meant to say that for every 2 men who graduate that 3 women graduate you should have said as much.
The language is FAR from ambiguous. 50% more women graduating means that for ever 2 men who graduate, 3 women graduate. That's what 50% more means to most people.
Your specific choice of "university graduate" also leads me to believe that the ratio of males who graduate from colleges are more evenly balanced.
Keep believing that. Women are 25% more likely to have graduated from colleges, which means that for every 4 men who graduate, 5 women graduate. There is no sign that this trend will reverse itself. This trend started around 1995, when they were almost equal in number. Some places have more than twice as many women than men, due to two factors - decrease in the number of men enrolling, and a huge increase in the number of women enrolling.
Maybe you need to ask yourself what this means for the future? Is what I originally said about the balance of power shifting true or not? Will this eventually lead to more women at the top than men? How will men react to their wives making more than them being the new normal? How will men react when the traditional male jobs disappear and they have no real alternative because women are out-competing them in other fields?
The patriarchy is dying. Of course, you're free to continue to deny it, but the trend is clear. Within 20 years, there's going to be a massive shift in the dynamics of male-female relationships, based on power, prospects, and money.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
You are using a very unconventional interpretation of "50% more".
No, you've just lived a very sheltered life it seems. FTFY.
A successful API design takes a mixture of software design and pedagogy.
It's interesting how this will interact with the opposite happening in China... Will we literally have a modern kidnapper's war again?
A successful API design takes a mixture of software design and pedagogy.
Combine the huge over-supply of Chinese males, and the way western guys have the hots for asian women ... but it's not like bride kidnapping is anything new in China.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Your statistics lump all college/university degrees together. STEM majors(traditionally defined) have a heavily tilted male to female ratio. If it wasn't for Biology, it would be even more dramatic.
Your biased metric choice of "graduation percentages" conflates a "Womyn's Studies" diploma with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering. Enrollment in "soft" majors has skewed graduation rates, but not salaries apparently. The historical salary data which supports the conclusion that a diploma translates in to economic empowerment has become decreasingly true as degree inflation and diploma mills have watered down undergraduate education to a point bordering on meaninglessness. Now employers are forced to do a much more complex/higher-dimension analysis when evaluating candidates because a "degree" is no longer a fungible commodity reflecting selective admission criteria, wise financial investment, or rigorous education standards.
Your twisted usage of "X% more" and the apparent pride you take in basic arithmetic has me questioning if you've ever taken a college level math course. The fact that you feel compelled to explain what you mean by "X% more" every time you use it is a damning indictment of how ineffective you are at technical communication. Your assumption that everyone else is just uneducated in mathematics further reinforces this conclusion.
The ambiguity originates from the implied subject: "X% more [?what?]". Percentage points? Women/men/graduates? Your phrasing leaves this distinction wide open to interpretation by the audience and so then you clarify with repeat use of fractions believing your audience struggles with basic multiplication/division when in-fact: they just can't understand your autistic communication style.
Next time you find yourself exasperated with the ignorance of the plebes: stop for a second and ask yourself "Are they really uneducated, or am I just really shitty at effectively communicating statistics?"
The bottom line is: don't try and bullshit a statistics major with your SJW bullshit. I see the confounding variables and cherry-picking of facts in everything you say. It's as transparent to me as glass.
That doesn't change the truth - that for every 2 women graduating from university, 3 women (50% more) are graduating. Also, STEM majors are more likely to end up working for and reporting to non-STEM majors, who make more money over their careers.
In case you haven't noticed, STEM is stagnating due to offshoring, H1Bs, foreign guest workers, and more people chasing fewer jobs. Women see this and say "who needs to put up with the macho bs for less money?"
So, are you really uneducated as to what's going on in the real world or what? Or are you just going to continue your lame, transparent attempt at trolling?
BTW - I am not an SJW - to the contrary, I think they're as stupid as you, and you would have known this if you had bothered to check.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
There is a real problem here, although calling it "Rape Culture" is overdramatic. Lots of guys seem to have an entitlement attitude about sex, and that does cause problems. It ties in with the attitude that most or all guys demand sex frequently, so both sexes suffer from those attitudes, but we're not considering that right now.
Picture a young man taking a young woman on a date, and the young man wants sex. If the man feels like he's owed sex, he's more likely to pressure his date into sex. This can lead to rape. Surveys that ask young men if they've raped any of their dates, using terminology like "pressured her into sex" or "made her have sex" do get a small but significant number of men admitting to it. It also encourages low-level sexual harassment in other cases: if women in general owe a guy sex, then they really don't have a complaint coming if he grabs someone's boobs or ass, right? Most guys aren't like that, but it only takes one asshole in a hundred men to ruin a woman's day.
Now, exactly what this has to do with Ashley Madison escapes me. Perhaps some husbands don't think they get enough sex from their wives, and feel entitled to look elsewhere, but that's pretty thin. It appears to me to be at least ostensibly aimed at putting men and women together (it could well be mostly a scam) who both want sex, which makes this have precisely nothing to do with rape. As far as the rather overblown Patriarchy idea goes, AM does remind me of Biblical marriage - you know, the type where a rich guy buys a hot young thing to be an additional wife, except that the money transfer isn't supposed to happen.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Is there any way to send somebody something that looks like a Bitcoin, but is actually boobytrapped? Known vulnerabilities in Bitcoin wallet software would be fun, but at least some kind of exploding email attachment would be a good start.
Bill Stewart
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