Women in some middle eastern countries outnumber men in STEM jobs as well as education. They have been making great efforts to get more women into the workforce as a way to grow their economies, and you could call this a side effect.
This absolute denial, by the left, that men and women are different is lunacy.
It's also a claim I've only ever heard coming from the right. The claim that anyone thinks that, I mean.
I'd be interested to know of any person who actually believes this and makes sustained arguments to that effect. Before you accuse me of thinking it, I don't.
Men are abrasive, argumentative, combative, and lack the same level of interpersonal skills that most women have naturally.
Apart from that being a rather sexist thing to say about men, the idea that it could have much influence on switchboard operation is laughable. These days many men work in call centres, and given that a switchboard operator isn't even selling anything or doing more than asking for some basic information and connecting the user to a number they looked up it's hard to imagine how even someone who is "abrasive, argumentative, combative" and lacking in interpersonal skills could screw it up.
But SJW is just someone you disagree with so violently that you were triggered by their argument. There is no organisation or philosophy that is called SJW, and no one can agree what it is.
Look at how diverse your list is. Those people have little in common other than your dislike of them.
It's effectively a concession, name calling rather than identification of flaws in the argument or matching it to a specific existing ideology.
I hope so too, but it's worth asking why this culture exists in some places and not others. For example it's extremely rare in most of Europe to be working really excessive hours, and in fact the law puts on a hard limit of 48 hours/week and certain mandatory break periods and days off.
What is it that puts pressure on men to do this in the United States, for example?
The important thing to take away here is that increasing equality benefits everyone. Pay should be unrelated to demographics, as should educational opportunities.
Men should be encouraged to stick with education and get those well paid, skilled jobs, and then not burn out in them with excessive hours and stress. Women should not be penalized for getting older or having families.
Actually the Kona and Niro are basically sold out this year. The Leaf isn't on sale yet and the price looks like a mistake (£51 cheaper and there would be no road tax), so we shall have to see but it does look a bit kak.
The BBC is essentially government funded. As I understand it NPR is at least partially publicly funded too. Yet both have a reputation for being impartial and reliable sources of news and information.
Many public spaces where politics are discussed are publicly funded too.
If done right publicly funded social media wouldn't automatically be bad.
This what you get with half-arses socialist policies. What they need to do is nationalize electricity production. Make it non-profit and priced according to what is required to properly maintain it.
That's un-American though so instead you get this kind of cap, with the power company trying to squeeze profits out of it.
They probably need a decent number of human moderators to keep the illegal stuff off it. Like Facebook does, except that Facebook makes enough money to pay for them.
So you went to the bathroom during the where Kylo kills Han (spoiler alert) and then gets shot by Chewie? That's why he was holding his side and bleeding during the fight with Finn and then Ray.
Ray was mentored too. Kylo was grooming her to be his partner, and deliberately demonstrated the power of the Force for her, in particular the mind trick.
These are all just standard copy/paste criticisms that don't align with the actual movie. This is a rather good debunking: https://youtu.be/4iqN68PejEc
Okay... But it's still more expensive and they haven't even got to $35k yet, while other manufacturers are already below that level with better range and features.
The Model 3 is a very strange car. Parts are clearly engineered to keep costs down, like the extremely spartan interior. Yet other stuff is not, and it's really hurting them. They ended up a long way from their target price, and with a car that won't be very competitive if they can every get it down to that level (only ~200 mile range, extremely basic spec, and still more expensive than the competition).
It's explicitly stated in the movie that Ray has experience as a pilot, as well as being a mechanic.
She doesn't beat Kylo Ren. No idea where you got that idea from. Kylo has been shot already by the time they clash, and he isn't even trying to kill or badly injure her. He wants her to join him, remember. She manages to fend off his attacks until the planet breaks under them and the fight comes to an end.
I'd love to hear how they could have kept Luke the same as in the original films, explain the time gap, and make him not suck like CGI Yoda did when doing action scenes.
That would probably have been a pretty boring film.
Counter example: Wonder Woman. By far the best DC movie of the modern era, and directed by an sjw and lacking any gratuitous shots of Gal Gadot's arse. Justice League was directed by Zak and did feature many shots of her arse, and was all the worse for both those things.
The flaw in that argument is Kylo Ren, who used Ray to help him murder Snoke and become supreme ruler of the galaxy. He went from worshipping Vader and wanting to emulate him to surpassing his achievements, and Ray was both used as a tool to that end and unable to stop him doing it.
Finn's redemption was where Rose helped him see the Rebel cause as worthy and then just as he kicks Phasma's arse he proudly identifies himself as "rebel scum". He went from just trying to get away and only an accidental hero to an actual hero fighting for what's right and what he believes in.
Ray is a Mary Sue but Luke is fine? First thing she does is crash a ship into the ground and try to run away from the Force. Luke goes from farming moisture and whining, never having been off-world, to piloting a military spacecraft and taking out the Death Star using the Force, even though Vader is trying to stop him at the time.
It's funny, they finally gave some payoff to the stuff about Leia being force sensitive and people hated the idea. And somehow they think a woman with purple hair who was a bit mean to one of the new guys ruining the franchise, after they gave us Jar Jar and midichlorions.
Why do people take Star Wars lore so seriously anyway? They were kids movies, where a bunch of midgets in bear costumes defeated the Imperial Army and no-one noticed the extremely obvious flaw in their planet-killer that the rebels spotted pretty much instantly just from the schematics. Not to mention the Kessel run that Solo tried to explain away.
Johnson got Last Jedi because they wanted a curve ball like Empire. People were very upset about Empire when the good guys lost and they wrote Han Solo out (at the time they didn't think they could get Ford for the third movie).
In fact a lot of the criticisms of Last Jedi mirror Empire. Luke gets wrecked by Vader in a fairly one-sided fight that makes him look weak. There is that weird dream sequence that made no sense at all. Han spent the whole movie running away and then got caught and frozen relatively easily... And it all felt a bit empty, the pay-off from Luke's training just wasn't there, Vader still kicked his arse and he couldn't help his friends at all.
In time it came to be seen as a classic, partly because the third film resolved a lot of the issues and made it more like the middle part of a longer movie where things have to get really bad before they get better for the payoff.
They just got fed up of all the bullshit being thrown at them, e.g. that they were trying to attack or destroy masculinity or promote white genocide. If you look at the few tweets being complained about in that context, they seem pretty reasonably.
I don't know why you think all the male characters came off badly in the movie, if anything the opposite is true. Most of the women were just along for the ride and it's the men who got most of the character development and pay-off.
Finn went from just looking out for himself and trying to escape to believing in the rebel cause and counting himself one of them. Poe learned to see the bigger picture and plan ahead, taking him beyond merely being a great pilot. Those two mirrored Han Solo in many ways, going from smuggler and murderer to helping the Rebels at the crucial moment and then becoming one of them, and learning to care about others through his relationship with Leia.
Luke needed a reason that he wasn't leading the rebels and force-battling Kylo/Snoke constantly. Because Mark Hamill is old that wasn't going to work. It picked up an idea that a lot of fans had been considering for decades - that the Jedi actually sucked. They failed to stop the Empire taking over, and their dogma actually caused the creation of Vader and many of the other problems in the galaxy. In the end he defeated Kylo Ren with experience and cunning, at the same time showing Ray the best of the Jedi while letting her go her own way with the Force.
Kylo's is the most interesting story. He is young and a bit rash, but it works well for him much of the time. Despite losing to Luke, he is supreme commander of the galaxy. Like Ray he moves past the old idea of the dark side and has become more than what Vader ever war.
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Women in some middle eastern countries outnumber men in STEM jobs as well as education. They have been making great efforts to get more women into the workforce as a way to grow their economies, and you could call this a side effect.
This absolute denial, by the left, that men and women are different is lunacy.
It's also a claim I've only ever heard coming from the right. The claim that anyone thinks that, I mean.
I'd be interested to know of any person who actually believes this and makes sustained arguments to that effect. Before you accuse me of thinking it, I don't.
Men are abrasive, argumentative, combative, and lack the same level of interpersonal skills that most women have naturally.
Apart from that being a rather sexist thing to say about men, the idea that it could have much influence on switchboard operation is laughable. These days many men work in call centres, and given that a switchboard operator isn't even selling anything or doing more than asking for some basic information and connecting the user to a number they looked up it's hard to imagine how even someone who is "abrasive, argumentative, combative" and lacking in interpersonal skills could screw it up.
No need to be a disingenuous dick about it. Everyone knows that it means equality of opportunity.
Believe me, as someone who lives with that reality, it's not something you want.
But SJW is just someone you disagree with so violently that you were triggered by their argument. There is no organisation or philosophy that is called SJW, and no one can agree what it is.
Look at how diverse your list is. Those people have little in common other than your dislike of them.
It's effectively a concession, name calling rather than identification of flaws in the argument or matching it to a specific existing ideology.
It's not even rarer. In some countries women outnumber men in STEM at both education and employment level.
I hope so too, but it's worth asking why this culture exists in some places and not others. For example it's extremely rare in most of Europe to be working really excessive hours, and in fact the law puts on a hard limit of 48 hours/week and certain mandatory break periods and days off.
What is it that puts pressure on men to do this in the United States, for example?
The important thing to take away here is that increasing equality benefits everyone. Pay should be unrelated to demographics, as should educational opportunities.
Men should be encouraged to stick with education and get those well paid, skilled jobs, and then not burn out in them with excessive hours and stress. Women should not be penalized for getting older or having families.
Actually the Kona and Niro are basically sold out this year. The Leaf isn't on sale yet and the price looks like a mistake (£51 cheaper and there would be no road tax), so we shall have to see but it does look a bit kak.
The BBC is essentially government funded. As I understand it NPR is at least partially publicly funded too. Yet both have a reputation for being impartial and reliable sources of news and information.
Many public spaces where politics are discussed are publicly funded too.
If done right publicly funded social media wouldn't automatically be bad.
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This what you get with half-arses socialist policies. What they need to do is nationalize electricity production. Make it non-profit and priced according to what is required to properly maintain it.
That's un-American though so instead you get this kind of cap, with the power company trying to squeeze profits out of it.
They probably need a decent number of human moderators to keep the illegal stuff off it. Like Facebook does, except that Facebook makes enough money to pay for them.
So you went to the bathroom during the where Kylo kills Han (spoiler alert) and then gets shot by Chewie? That's why he was holding his side and bleeding during the fight with Finn and then Ray.
Ray was mentored too. Kylo was grooming her to be his partner, and deliberately demonstrated the power of the Force for her, in particular the mind trick.
These are all just standard copy/paste criticisms that don't align with the actual movie. This is a rather good debunking: https://youtu.be/4iqN68PejEc
Okay... But it's still more expensive and they haven't even got to $35k yet, while other manufacturers are already below that level with better range and features.
The Model 3 is a very strange car. Parts are clearly engineered to keep costs down, like the extremely spartan interior. Yet other stuff is not, and it's really hurting them. They ended up a long way from their target price, and with a car that won't be very competitive if they can every get it down to that level (only ~200 mile range, extremely basic spec, and still more expensive than the competition).
It's explicitly stated in the movie that Ray has experience as a pilot, as well as being a mechanic.
She doesn't beat Kylo Ren. No idea where you got that idea from. Kylo has been shot already by the time they clash, and he isn't even trying to kill or badly injure her. He wants her to join him, remember. She manages to fend off his attacks until the planet breaks under them and the fight comes to an end.
At least watch the movie first.
I'd love to hear how they could have kept Luke the same as in the original films, explain the time gap, and make him not suck like CGI Yoda did when doing action scenes.
That would probably have been a pretty boring film.
Counter example: Wonder Woman. By far the best DC movie of the modern era, and directed by an sjw and lacking any gratuitous shots of Gal Gadot's arse. Justice League was directed by Zak and did feature many shots of her arse, and was all the worse for both those things.
The flaw in that argument is Kylo Ren, who used Ray to help him murder Snoke and become supreme ruler of the galaxy. He went from worshipping Vader and wanting to emulate him to surpassing his achievements, and Ray was both used as a tool to that end and unable to stop him doing it.
Finn's redemption was where Rose helped him see the Rebel cause as worthy and then just as he kicks Phasma's arse he proudly identifies himself as "rebel scum". He went from just trying to get away and only an accidental hero to an actual hero fighting for what's right and what he believes in.
Ray is a Mary Sue but Luke is fine? First thing she does is crash a ship into the ground and try to run away from the Force. Luke goes from farming moisture and whining, never having been off-world, to piloting a military spacecraft and taking out the Death Star using the Force, even though Vader is trying to stop him at the time.
It's funny, they finally gave some payoff to the stuff about Leia being force sensitive and people hated the idea. And somehow they think a woman with purple hair who was a bit mean to one of the new guys ruining the franchise, after they gave us Jar Jar and midichlorions.
Why do people take Star Wars lore so seriously anyway? They were kids movies, where a bunch of midgets in bear costumes defeated the Imperial Army and no-one noticed the extremely obvious flaw in their planet-killer that the rebels spotted pretty much instantly just from the schematics. Not to mention the Kessel run that Solo tried to explain away.
Johnson got Last Jedi because they wanted a curve ball like Empire. People were very upset about Empire when the good guys lost and they wrote Han Solo out (at the time they didn't think they could get Ford for the third movie).
In fact a lot of the criticisms of Last Jedi mirror Empire. Luke gets wrecked by Vader in a fairly one-sided fight that makes him look weak. There is that weird dream sequence that made no sense at all. Han spent the whole movie running away and then got caught and frozen relatively easily... And it all felt a bit empty, the pay-off from Luke's training just wasn't there, Vader still kicked his arse and he couldn't help his friends at all.
In time it came to be seen as a classic, partly because the third film resolved a lot of the issues and made it more like the middle part of a longer movie where things have to get really bad before they get better for the payoff.
They just got fed up of all the bullshit being thrown at them, e.g. that they were trying to attack or destroy masculinity or promote white genocide. If you look at the few tweets being complained about in that context, they seem pretty reasonably.
Unfortunately outrage is a profitable industry.
I don't know why you think all the male characters came off badly in the movie, if anything the opposite is true. Most of the women were just along for the ride and it's the men who got most of the character development and pay-off.
Finn went from just looking out for himself and trying to escape to believing in the rebel cause and counting himself one of them. Poe learned to see the bigger picture and plan ahead, taking him beyond merely being a great pilot. Those two mirrored Han Solo in many ways, going from smuggler and murderer to helping the Rebels at the crucial moment and then becoming one of them, and learning to care about others through his relationship with Leia.
Luke needed a reason that he wasn't leading the rebels and force-battling Kylo/Snoke constantly. Because Mark Hamill is old that wasn't going to work. It picked up an idea that a lot of fans had been considering for decades - that the Jedi actually sucked. They failed to stop the Empire taking over, and their dogma actually caused the creation of Vader and many of the other problems in the galaxy. In the end he defeated Kylo Ren with experience and cunning, at the same time showing Ray the best of the Jedi while letting her go her own way with the Force.
Kylo's is the most interesting story. He is young and a bit rash, but it works well for him much of the time. Despite losing to Luke, he is supreme commander of the galaxy. Like Ray he moves past the old idea of the dark side and has become more than what Vader ever war.