We always have to walk on eggshells around you, afraid we'll tell wrong joke within your earshot and get into trouble.
I've never had a guy do that around me 'cause I never get anyone in trouble. I don't care enough on that front, so not worth my time. And I know girls can be just as bad, I really do.
It is the typical "blame the victim" mentality, putting the onus of improvement on the oppressed part rather than the oppressor. Truly despicable frankly.
As a girl in engineering, I really do know how awful it is. I've been the sole girl on a team, told that I'm not a female 'cause I'm useful, lost faith in guys 'cause of the locker room talk, couldn't go to a competition 'cause a prof didn't want to pay for an extra hotel room, and otherwise had my fair share of the drama. I'm first in line to try and recruit more girls in my field, 'cause it's damn lonely sometimes. I was just making the point that it's an environment issue, not active sexism. Hell, when we discussed this at school, we found that one the things that totally kills girls are the professors who are nicer to girls, 'cause we have to work 3 times as hard to get respect in their classes/get other people to take those grade seriously.
I got into comp sci because I wanted to code better options into my Barbie fashion designer games, but my brother took a poli-sci route even though he played way more games then I did. In the past 20 or so years, there have been a steady slew of video games for girls, and we're still seeing the gender disparities.
That is prima facie reason to suspect there may be sexism involved, and to investigate if we're actually interested.
But the original argument isn't playing the sexism card, it's just saying a male dominated environment turns off women. Makes sense, some people don't like the big ole arrow that gets placed on them if they're the only "other" in the room. More so with geek boy culture, which plays up the "can't get laid, fantasize about any with breasts" stereotype. If I hadn't spent my entire life hanging out with boys, I'd also probably be quesy about working in a hard core programming shop. I was watching G4 the other day, and the "booth babes" documentary just so perfectly encapsulated the female perspective on a certain type of geek that's expected to be a programmer. So actually, the lack of females in comp sci may be more do to sexism against males then against females.
She has a right to be Arab without having her electronics shot.
She's not Arab; she's a Jewish (non-practicing or non-identifying doesn't matter to the Israeli police) white girl from the states. Israeli border police would like have assumed that because of her name, ethnicity, country of origin, and relatives in Tel Aviv even if she didn't confirm it. It could have made her suspicious, but for very different reasons.
A virtual video studio where they can act out a play and then watch themselves is very experiential and gets to use technology they might not have a chance to play with on a large scale.
Sony did something similar with Sony Wonder in New York when I was younger. I went as a kid and thought it was the coolest thing that I could make my own tv show and I kept the certificate they gave out for years. There were lots of buttons and options for older kids and a big green screen and heat sensitive cameras for everyone. In the years since, it looks like they've modernized the tech but kept to the same concept.
You apply men's own macho standard to them as though they are in some way to blame for them. You essentially blame the victim.
Ack. I didn't mean too. I only pointed out that info 'cause the op made it sound like it was women's fault and I wanted to paint a fuller picture. I seriously don't blame any victim for not reporting their abuse 'specially when they wouldn't even be taken seriously 'cause of screwed up notions of gender.
You might well say that it is not in these groups remit to address these issues.
Except I really don't believe that. I think every mother should be advocating just as loudly for her son to get more support in school as for her daughter, and that a whole host of gender issues on both sides would ease up if society didn't stick to such rigid constructs on gender abuse and oppression. I think it's insane that some of my brightest friends have to work harder for scholarships in engineering 'cause they're white males, and it just breeds the sort of resentment that can't be good for anyone. Basically, I think they should be advocating for all victims (male and female) for whatever agenda they're pushing.
Take for example the issue suicide rates. This problem disproportionately affects men.
Women attempt more, (and suffer from depression more, but again this is in large part due to under reporting) but men succeed more 'cause they use violent methods. Basically, both genders are affected differently, so most of the prevention programs take a general approach.
I don't know if womens groups taking this one up will even be effective. Guys may actually be much more effective for the same macho-cultural reasons as why guys kill themselves more often and guys make better teachers for inner-city males. Which is a separate issue-will women advocating for men even be effective because of the cultural issues that prevent men for advocating loudly for themselves?
What's stopping guys from getting together and starting education and prevention programs geared towards guys? It's a public health issue, so it's not like anyone's even gonna play the oppressed peoples card. Womens' programs probably should expand their scope (though I've never seen a suicide prevention program target towards a gender, only age specific stuff.)
Hang on - why 'only' if he wears a condom? Where is the expectation for him to wear the protection when there are just as many ways for woman to protect herself? What if the woman asked him not to, or didn't give him the chance?
If she didn't give him the chance, I think he's off the hook. If she told him not to, only if he has reason to believe her reasons for why he shouldn't. Basically, if she's lying about being on the pill, I'll have some sympathy for him depending on the level of their relationship->wife lying very different from one-night-stand lying. I make condoms a clause 'cause if he doesn't want kids that badly, he should take it on himself to do everything in his power to prevent it, and that includes insisting on a condom.
Yet you are quite happy to collectively punish men.
Gah, I'm really not. I think it's awful that a guy who really wants a kid can't stop a girl from havng an abortion, and it's unfair that he gets stuck paying child support if he took all reasonable preventative measures to not have a kid. I think custody laws are totally insane and currently encourage all sorts of slimy behavior and that the entire system is screwed up. I think the draft should apply to both, or really to neither. I also think the laws that keep women off the front line aren't fair if she really wants to go out there.
I was really just pointing out that a decent amount of the inequalities towards men are self-prepetuated, and I was making the same point as you that it's a collective culture issue, not a gender specific one.
At least two of those were because the guy receiving the tutoring was undeniably lazy.
This, and she's uninterested.(In the major for a scholarship and the only girl I've ever actively encouraged to leave engineering.) She mostly needs someone to babysit her while doing hw.
After all, the stopgap measures should be just fine, right?
Condoms are known to prevent pregnancy, whereas dress has nothing to do with rape. *As for situations, look I don't think a guy is obligated to pay child support if the girl used a turkey baster method or otherwise went against his best efforts. But he has to put in those best efforts first.
However, I'd argue that the problem your friend has is entirely hers.
Oh, I know that, and I think another friend is partially responsible for dating her while he was in charge of her workshop and therefore responsible for a bit of her grade. (This happened while she was a freshie.)I know two other girls in her class and neither of them have her issues; they're also both slightly bitchy, whereas this girl is a doormat. I don't really relate to her either 'cause most guys treat me as one of the boys.
By that token, girls should... um... "sack up" and deal with it. Guys manage it just fine.
It's slightly different for guys 'cause it's unlikely he'll get hit on by half the people he asks for help (or all the help he gets will be half flirting. ) Also this dude was macho, so he probably just took a "cool, chicks" mentality, same as many of the guys I know taking psych. Even being treated as one of the guys, it can be awkward to be the only girl in the class. I've been taking compsci classes since high school, and was still kind of thrown off when I was the only girl in a college class 'cause the other two ditched. Professor's automatically remember you, which makes guys think you have an unfair advantage. And there are the professors who are rumored to go easy on the girls, and it's just a pain. Most of the guys I know respect the girls in the major, (who come in the same flavors as the guys: awesome and totally incompetent-though I only know one incompetent girl and a few awesome ones) but there are always the idiots you're stuck working with who think it's chivalrous to do all the work for you.
She'll just be left with the assholes (who aren't in it for the long term so they don't care), and those she didn't say "go away" to (if she said it to everyone well that's her problem).
Actually she's left with me tutoring her out of pity and conning my labmates into tutoring her when I can't remember how to solve something.
It's not like most of the other guys are bothering to help out the other guys
Well actually they are: it's engineering, where everyone helps everyone else. I never had trouble getting help from a guy, but I almost never get hit on (and never by a schoolmate). I think that might be what bothers her, that she can't get basic help (though she can-this is mostly in her head, but I get why this type of environment encourages her to dream this scenario up.)
There's a lack of women in engineering! Oh noes! Let's push them into it. But there's also a lack of male nurses and lawyers, and nobody seems too fussed.
a) It's not about pushing girls in engineering, it's about recruiting more into the field so there's more than one girl in the class, 'cause that's hard to deal with at 18 (or younger.) I've been there, and have a friend there now, and she's totally intimidated and currently convinced that most of the guys who try to help her out are hitting on her. (Doesn't help that she's cute.) It's also 'cause other countries (like India, Russia, or China) don't have the disparities the US does, indicating that it's a social, not biological, issue. (Hence part of the annoyance at Summer's remark)
b) If you're a guy and a teacher, they'll snap you up instantly 'cause they want you for inner city schools. I've seen recruitment offers and scholarships for just that reason. Male nurses are sought after for the physical strength. Law becoming female dominated is a relatively new phenom, but give it a few years and there might be more of a push to get guys-probably not though 'cause it's not a field where one gender could provide much of a benefit over another.
A man, let alone politician, can hardly suggest that boys/men need any help because he'd get eaten alive for "ignoring the multitude of problems women in America face everyday" or something.
This is starting to change-past couple of years had more books on the subject, and Time even did an issue on it. It'll take time and advocacy and lobbing, but it's starting to happen 'cause the gender disparity is growing alarmingly on the college level. But yes, major attitude shifts and policy changes take time; women got the vote in 1919, but were tied down by gender roles for another 40 years, and started making educational strides after that. Give it a couple of years and it may equalize-we're already seeing shifts in care giving and other domestic responsibilities, and we'll probably see shifts in jobs too.
Look, I agree that guys get the short end of the stick because of politics and the media and that it's not fair, but I also don't think most women are ignoring it (at least maliciously-they could just be focused on the stuff that affects them directly). There's also history at play here: before the 19th century woman's rights were a funky set of rules based on class and location and usually fathers and husbands, and it still works that way for vast swaths of the world. So yes, guys get screwed over because of what happened a hundred years ago or across the globe, and it's totally unfair, but dude let girl's have 40 years.
All that should be necessary for a man to get out of all child obligations should be that he registers his opposition to having the child as soon as he knows the woman is pregnant.
If he doesn't want a kid that badly, he should at the least take every precaution to avoid having one. If he doesn't want to go celibate or get a visectomy, then he should at the least use a condom. Otherwise, he just didn't try hard enough to prevent it and he should be held responsible for the consequences of his irresponsible actions. Yeah he should trust his girl and all, but if he's that opposed to a kid with her, well he should try extra hard.
Nopes. The op makes it sound like male victimization not being taken seriously is some screwed up female conspiracy, when the actual reasons have a lot more to do with guys not taking male victimization seriously because of their own messed up views on what it means to be a guy. Basically, guy's often don't report abuse because of other guys, not 'cause of girls.
but women in charge of women seems to bring out the bitch
Don't totally disagree with you here, though it depends a bit on the field and women involved. Look, being a girl, I really do know way more about the torture females inflict on each other then I ever wanted to.
You forgot the other option, find a partner to raise the kid with. It's not society's fault that you didn't find the right partner to share the responsibility of raising a child with.
Though society is partially responsible for the idea that it's not "manly" for a guy to be the primary caregiver or stay at home dad, so many generations just didn't have that wide a pool to choose from when looking for someone they could raise the kid with. Granted, this has changed a lot in the past 30? years, as the number of women in the workforce increased and child rearing tasks had to be more equally distributed.
Here's a hint those numbers are probably almost identical, women just don't admit that that happens to men as well.
Actually, guys do it to themselves by underreporting abuse because it doesn't fit with the traditional notions of gender, (citations at bottom), though I agree the numbers probably are equal, and may even be higher for boys because of the expectation that they won't report it.
Good luck getting the police to protect you from an abusive woman
Most police are male, so honestly this is another of those cases where it has to do with guys own expectations of other guys.
Men don't get any say in how a pregnancy turns out
In cases of having the kid, I only agree with you if the guy wore a condom and did everything in his power to prevent pregnancy. In cases of aborting the kid, only if the guy legally obligates himself to raising and supporting the kid. Yes, the woman gets more say 'cause it's her body, so forcing her to either abort or give birth to a kid she doesn't want is a violation of her rights over her own body. That's just a matter of how the universe assigned biological functions.
Blaming men for things like female insecurity over looks, is just bigoted, that's not something that has anything at all to do with men, that's something that women do to each other.
Both genders are at fault here. Women drive each other crazy in part because men keep making it matter. Granted, even if men didn't care, women would still fight over looks, but men are still a big part of the picture. I've got friends in a religious community-the major reason they get drama about looks is 'cause of marriage. Hell, a bunch of comments on this thread basically say "me want hawt girl."
Open white space frequencies are part of American slashdot users rights, so a proposal for a db that contains data on who is using that falls into the rights category. (Or 'cause yro is a bit of a catch all catagory.)
I hate to say it, but Craig's List has been a spam haven for some time. Some parts of better than other, but at least 90% (really) of everything in the personals section is pure, 100% spam and scam.
Same with housing, at least in New York Cty. It's almost all shady brokerage firms (one was a total bait and switch job) that neglect key details, such as addresses, in their listings. Trying to find something near school when the neighborhood option for craiglist encompasses about 40-60 blocks on the west side is some what fruitless. I love craigslist in theory, but sometimes I wish the rules were a bit stiffer.
No. If you were asked to peer review a paper, would YOU sign off on it without seeing the data that went into it or (usually) the program code that processed the data? Really?
Do you know how unmanageable that would be? These datasets tend to be quite big, so usually looking at all of it isn't feasible unless you're already working with the data (or at the least climate) anyway (which many of the peer reviewers are) or the work is more generalized so the algorithms can be verified on other data sets. The data is also complete nonsense if you don't know what you're looking at, which is why lots of the work is collaborative between climate and comp scientists/engineers/etc. As for programing language-if you're not a good coder/don't understand the langauge, it serves no purpose to see it, though much of it is publicly available. So long as you disclose the method and algorithm, the results should be reproducible. On the flip side, a lot of it is publicly available, including how to work with/read this data and how the models are constructed, if you have the time and resources.
I think most small electronics are auto-voltage-sensing these days, including my camera's battery charger, MP3 player, electric razor, mobile phone charger, external USB drive, etc.
It's also written, along with all the power info, on the power brick/charger if anyone wants to double check. Ebays a great place to buy adapters, and so is any semi-sketchy electronics shop.
And be sure to take a small power strip
But be careful with those. I took out the electricity in half an apartment in Russia 'cause I didn't check the strip for voltages and tried running it off an adapter. My converter overheated several times trying to power it, (and my laptop, which is how I found out about the adapters in the first place).
I've never had airport security ask me anything about my laptop, and my brother's never been stopped either.
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We always have to walk on eggshells around you, afraid we'll tell wrong joke within your earshot and get into trouble.
I've never had a guy do that around me 'cause I never get anyone in trouble. I don't care enough on that front, so not worth my time. And I know girls can be just as bad, I really do.
It is the typical "blame the victim" mentality, putting the onus of improvement on the oppressed part rather than the oppressor. Truly despicable frankly.
As a girl in engineering, I really do know how awful it is. I've been the sole girl on a team, told that I'm not a female 'cause I'm useful, lost faith in guys 'cause of the locker room talk, couldn't go to a competition 'cause a prof didn't want to pay for an extra hotel room, and otherwise had my fair share of the drama. I'm first in line to try and recruit more girls in my field, 'cause it's damn lonely sometimes. I was just making the point that it's an environment issue, not active sexism. Hell, when we discussed this at school, we found that one the things that totally kills girls are the professors who are nicer to girls, 'cause we have to work 3 times as hard to get respect in their classes/get other people to take those grade seriously.
Boys grow up with computer games
I got into comp sci because I wanted to code better options into my Barbie fashion designer games, but my brother took a poli-sci route even though he played way more games then I did. In the past 20 or so years, there have been a steady slew of video games for girls, and we're still seeing the gender disparities.
That is prima facie reason to suspect there may be sexism involved, and to investigate if we're actually interested.
But the original argument isn't playing the sexism card, it's just saying a male dominated environment turns off women. Makes sense, some people don't like the big ole arrow that gets placed on them if they're the only "other" in the room. More so with geek boy culture, which plays up the "can't get laid, fantasize about any with breasts" stereotype. If I hadn't spent my entire life hanging out with boys, I'd also probably be quesy about working in a hard core programming shop. I was watching G4 the other day, and the "booth babes" documentary just so perfectly encapsulated the female perspective on a certain type of geek that's expected to be a programmer. So actually, the lack of females in comp sci may be more do to sexism against males then against females.
Of course she is. You know, all ethnic Jews finish off their blog posts by saying "Insha’allah I will like Israel better tomorrow."
If she converted to Islam, why not? It doesn't change what her family is or what she was born as.
She has a right to be Arab without having her electronics shot.
She's not Arab; she's a Jewish (non-practicing or non-identifying doesn't matter to the Israeli police) white girl from the states. Israeli border police would like have assumed that because of her name, ethnicity, country of origin, and relatives in Tel Aviv even if she didn't confirm it. It could have made her suspicious, but for very different reasons.
A virtual video studio where they can act out a play and then watch themselves is very experiential and gets to use technology they might not have a chance to play with on a large scale.
Sony did something similar with Sony Wonder in New York when I was younger. I went as a kid and thought it was the coolest thing that I could make my own tv show and I kept the certificate they gave out for years. There were lots of buttons and options for older kids and a big green screen and heat sensitive cameras for everyone. In the years since, it looks like they've modernized the tech but kept to the same concept.
You apply men's own macho standard to them as though they are in some way to blame for them. You essentially blame the victim.
Ack. I didn't mean too. I only pointed out that info 'cause the op made it sound like it was women's fault and I wanted to paint a fuller picture. I seriously don't blame any victim for not reporting their abuse 'specially when they wouldn't even be taken seriously 'cause of screwed up notions of gender.
You might well say that it is not in these groups remit to address these issues.
Except I really don't believe that. I think every mother should be advocating just as loudly for her son to get more support in school as for her daughter, and that a whole host of gender issues on both sides would ease up if society didn't stick to such rigid constructs on gender abuse and oppression. I think it's insane that some of my brightest friends have to work harder for scholarships in engineering 'cause they're white males, and it just breeds the sort of resentment that can't be good for anyone. Basically, I think they should be advocating for all victims (male and female) for whatever agenda they're pushing.
Take for example the issue suicide rates. This problem disproportionately affects men.
Women attempt more, (and suffer from depression more, but again this is in large part due to under reporting) but men succeed more 'cause they use violent methods. Basically, both genders are affected differently, so most of the prevention programs take a general approach.
I don't know if womens groups taking this one up will even be effective. Guys may actually be much more effective for the same macho-cultural reasons as why guys kill themselves more often and guys make better teachers for inner-city males. Which is a separate issue-will women advocating for men even be effective because of the cultural issues that prevent men for advocating loudly for themselves?
What's stopping guys from getting together and starting education and prevention programs geared towards guys? It's a public health issue, so it's not like anyone's even gonna play the oppressed peoples card. Womens' programs probably should expand their scope (though I've never seen a suicide prevention program target towards a gender, only age specific stuff.)
Hang on - why 'only' if he wears a condom? Where is the expectation for him to wear the protection when there are just as many ways for woman to protect herself? What if the woman asked him not to, or didn't give him the chance?
If she didn't give him the chance, I think he's off the hook. If she told him not to, only if he has reason to believe her reasons for why he shouldn't. Basically, if she's lying about being on the pill, I'll have some sympathy for him depending on the level of their relationship->wife lying very different from one-night-stand lying. I make condoms a clause 'cause if he doesn't want kids that badly, he should take it on himself to do everything in his power to prevent it, and that includes insisting on a condom.
Yet you are quite happy to collectively punish men.
Gah, I'm really not. I think it's awful that a guy who really wants a kid can't stop a girl from havng an abortion, and it's unfair that he gets stuck paying child support if he took all reasonable preventative measures to not have a kid. I think custody laws are totally insane and currently encourage all sorts of slimy behavior and that the entire system is screwed up. I think the draft should apply to both, or really to neither. I also think the laws that keep women off the front line aren't fair if she really wants to go out there.
I was really just pointing out that a decent amount of the inequalities towards men are self-prepetuated, and I was making the same point as you that it's a collective culture issue, not a gender specific one.
At least two of those were because the guy receiving the tutoring was undeniably lazy.
This, and she's uninterested.(In the major for a scholarship and the only girl I've ever actively encouraged to leave engineering.) She mostly needs someone to babysit her while doing hw.
After all, the stopgap measures should be just fine, right?
Condoms are known to prevent pregnancy, whereas dress has nothing to do with rape. *As for situations, look I don't think a guy is obligated to pay child support if the girl used a turkey baster method or otherwise went against his best efforts. But he has to put in those best efforts first.
No, that guys can't trust that their partners will take care of the birth control and have to take their own protective measures.
However, I'd argue that the problem your friend has is entirely hers.
Oh, I know that, and I think another friend is partially responsible for dating her while he was in charge of her workshop and therefore responsible for a bit of her grade. (This happened while she was a freshie.)I know two other girls in her class and neither of them have her issues; they're also both slightly bitchy, whereas this girl is a doormat. I don't really relate to her either 'cause most guys treat me as one of the boys.
By that token, girls should... um... "sack up" and deal with it. Guys manage it just fine.
It's slightly different for guys 'cause it's unlikely he'll get hit on by half the people he asks for help (or all the help he gets will be half flirting. ) Also this dude was macho, so he probably just took a "cool, chicks" mentality, same as many of the guys I know taking psych. Even being treated as one of the guys, it can be awkward to be the only girl in the class. I've been taking compsci classes since high school, and was still kind of thrown off when I was the only girl in a college class 'cause the other two ditched. Professor's automatically remember you, which makes guys think you have an unfair advantage. And there are the professors who are rumored to go easy on the girls, and it's just a pain. Most of the guys I know respect the girls in the major, (who come in the same flavors as the guys: awesome and totally incompetent-though I only know one incompetent girl and a few awesome ones) but there are always the idiots you're stuck working with who think it's chivalrous to do all the work for you.
She'll just be left with the assholes (who aren't in it for the long term so they don't care), and those she didn't say "go away" to (if she said it to everyone well that's her problem).
Actually she's left with me tutoring her out of pity and conning my labmates into tutoring her when I can't remember how to solve something.
It's not like most of the other guys are bothering to help out the other guys
Well actually they are: it's engineering, where everyone helps everyone else. I never had trouble getting help from a guy, but I almost never get hit on (and never by a schoolmate). I think that might be what bothers her, that she can't get basic help (though she can-this is mostly in her head, but I get why this type of environment encourages her to dream this scenario up.)
There's a lack of women in engineering! Oh noes! Let's push them into it. But there's also a lack of male nurses and lawyers, and nobody seems too fussed.
a) It's not about pushing girls in engineering, it's about recruiting more into the field so there's more than one girl in the class, 'cause that's hard to deal with at 18 (or younger.) I've been there, and have a friend there now, and she's totally intimidated and currently convinced that most of the guys who try to help her out are hitting on her. (Doesn't help that she's cute.) It's also 'cause other countries (like India, Russia, or China) don't have the disparities the US does, indicating that it's a social, not biological, issue. (Hence part of the annoyance at Summer's remark)
b) If you're a guy and a teacher, they'll snap you up instantly 'cause they want you for inner city schools. I've seen recruitment offers and scholarships for just that reason. Male nurses are sought after for the physical strength. Law becoming female dominated is a relatively new phenom, but give it a few years and there might be more of a push to get guys-probably not though 'cause it's not a field where one gender could provide much of a benefit over another.
A man, let alone politician, can hardly suggest that boys/men need any help because he'd get eaten alive for "ignoring the multitude of problems women in America face everyday" or something.
This is starting to change-past couple of years had more books on the subject, and Time even did an issue on it. It'll take time and advocacy and lobbing, but it's starting to happen 'cause the gender disparity is growing alarmingly on the college level. But yes, major attitude shifts and policy changes take time; women got the vote in 1919, but were tied down by gender roles for another 40 years, and started making educational strides after that. Give it a couple of years and it may equalize-we're already seeing shifts in care giving and other domestic responsibilities, and we'll probably see shifts in jobs too.
Look, I agree that guys get the short end of the stick because of politics and the media and that it's not fair, but I also don't think most women are ignoring it (at least maliciously-they could just be focused on the stuff that affects them directly). There's also history at play here: before the 19th century woman's rights were a funky set of rules based on class and location and usually fathers and husbands, and it still works that way for vast swaths of the world. So yes, guys get screwed over because of what happened a hundred years ago or across the globe, and it's totally unfair, but dude let girl's have 40 years.
All that should be necessary for a man to get out of all child obligations should be that he registers his opposition to having the child as soon as he knows the woman is pregnant.
If he doesn't want a kid that badly, he should at the least take every precaution to avoid having one. If he doesn't want to go celibate or get a visectomy, then he should at the least use a condom. Otherwise, he just didn't try hard enough to prevent it and he should be held responsible for the consequences of his irresponsible actions. Yeah he should trust his girl and all, but if he's that opposed to a kid with her, well he should try extra hard.
Is this intended as an excuse?
Nopes. The op makes it sound like male victimization not being taken seriously is some screwed up female conspiracy, when the actual reasons have a lot more to do with guys not taking male victimization seriously because of their own messed up views on what it means to be a guy. Basically, guy's often don't report abuse because of other guys, not 'cause of girls.
but women in charge of women seems to bring out the bitch
Don't totally disagree with you here, though it depends a bit on the field and women involved. Look, being a girl, I really do know way more about the torture females inflict on each other then I ever wanted to.
You forgot the other option, find a partner to raise the kid with. It's not society's fault that you didn't find the right partner to share the responsibility of raising a child with.
Though society is partially responsible for the idea that it's not "manly" for a guy to be the primary caregiver or stay at home dad, so many generations just didn't have that wide a pool to choose from when looking for someone they could raise the kid with. Granted, this has changed a lot in the past 30? years, as the number of women in the workforce increased and child rearing tasks had to be more equally distributed.
I assume that you were going for funny, but from tfs:
British researcher Adrian Furnham came up with some startling results. His analysis
and from tfa:
I just let the data speak for itself. Nonetheless, sometimes I think you have to be stupid, brave or just plain naive to work in this area.
Here's a hint those numbers are probably almost identical, women just don't admit that that happens to men as well.
Actually, guys do it to themselves by underreporting abuse because it doesn't fit with the traditional notions of gender, (citations at bottom), though I agree the numbers probably are equal, and may even be higher for boys because of the expectation that they won't report it.
Good luck getting the police to protect you from an abusive woman
Most police are male, so honestly this is another of those cases where it has to do with guys own expectations of other guys.
Men don't get any say in how a pregnancy turns out
In cases of having the kid, I only agree with you if the guy wore a condom and did everything in his power to prevent pregnancy. In cases of aborting the kid, only if the guy legally obligates himself to raising and supporting the kid. Yes, the woman gets more say 'cause it's her body, so forcing her to either abort or give birth to a kid she doesn't want is a violation of her rights over her own body. That's just a matter of how the universe assigned biological functions.
Blaming men for things like female insecurity over looks, is just bigoted, that's not something that has anything at all to do with men, that's something that women do to each other.
Both genders are at fault here. Women drive each other crazy in part because men keep making it matter. Granted, even if men didn't care, women would still fight over looks, but men are still a big part of the picture. I've got friends in a religious community-the major reason they get drama about looks is 'cause of marriage. Hell, a bunch of comments on this thread basically say "me want hawt girl."
Open white space frequencies are part of American slashdot users rights, so a proposal for a db that contains data on who is using that falls into the rights category. (Or 'cause yro is a bit of a catch all catagory.)
I hate to say it, but Craig's List has been a spam haven for some time. Some parts of better than other, but at least 90% (really) of everything in the personals section is pure, 100% spam and scam.
Same with housing, at least in New York Cty. It's almost all shady brokerage firms (one was a total bait and switch job) that neglect key details, such as addresses, in their listings. Trying to find something near school when the neighborhood option for craiglist encompasses about 40-60 blocks on the west side is some what fruitless. I love craigslist in theory, but sometimes I wish the rules were a bit stiffer.
No. If you were asked to peer review a paper, would YOU sign off on it without seeing the data that went into it or (usually) the program code that processed the data? Really?
Do you know how unmanageable that would be? These datasets tend to be quite big, so usually looking at all of it isn't feasible unless you're already working with the data (or at the least climate) anyway (which many of the peer reviewers are) or the work is more generalized so the algorithms can be verified on other data sets. The data is also complete nonsense if you don't know what you're looking at, which is why lots of the work is collaborative between climate and comp scientists/engineers/etc. As for programing language-if you're not a good coder/don't understand the langauge, it serves no purpose to see it, though much of it is publicly available. So long as you disclose the method and algorithm, the results should be reproducible. On the flip side, a lot of it is publicly available, including how to work with/read this data and how the models are constructed, if you have the time and resources.
I think most small electronics are auto-voltage-sensing these days, including my camera's battery charger, MP3 player, electric razor, mobile phone charger, external USB drive, etc.
It's also written, along with all the power info, on the power brick/charger if anyone wants to double check. Ebays a great place to buy adapters, and so is any semi-sketchy electronics shop.
And be sure to take a small power strip
But be careful with those. I took out the electricity in half an apartment in Russia 'cause I didn't check the strip for voltages and tried running it off an adapter. My converter overheated several times trying to power it, (and my laptop, which is how I found out about the adapters in the first place).
I've never had airport security ask me anything about my laptop, and my brother's never been stopped either.