Well, it's never actually happened to me, personally, but that's because I heeded well the warnings I was given during the presentation that was mandatory for all those assigned to the male gender at birth to attend during university orientation. Attendance for womyn-born-womyn was optional.
For example, I was specifically warned to not ever be seen within 20 feet of any womyn-born-womyn after dark.
That worked out pretty well for me. I was also told that if I even thought about using the restroom of the gender I look like (female), I'd be expelled for attempted rape, and my transcript would be permanently sealed. I hadn't even asked if I'd be able to use the womyn-born-womyn bathroom! It was merely what the feminist club on campus assumed. I've never felt a compelling need to use a specific restroom, since I have no idea what the fuck is in the women's room that isn't in the men's room.
Rather than waste more money on a university that was obviously run by transphobic feminists, I dropped out. I only realized later that I probably had a pretty good Title IX lawsuit (focusing on the sexist orientation policy--far be it from me to attempt to press the bathroom issue these days), but only recently have I had the resources to even think about starting a lawsuit with a university. Oh well.
BUT! Why the fuck did I just try to communicate something to you? Am I fucking stupid? Yes, I must be fucking stupid. Let me FTFY!
Be careful, or "welcoming and inclusive" becomes sexual harassment.
No it doesn't. Whatever it was you did to upset that particular cisgendered woman, whether it was telling her that she didn't get the right answer on her algebra homework because she didn't apply the theorem correctly, or whether it was telling her that her computer program didn't produce the correct answer because she didn't perform her analysis correctly, and because I'm a sexually frustrated white night who's desperate for pussy, I'm totally not going to quote Ada Lovelace:
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with.
So, since I'm convinced that I'm the One Good Man and how dare you imply that My Hunnies are less than perfect!!!, I'm totally not going to quote ADA LOVELACE HERSELF, nope!
Anyway, where was I. Right! You are only a sexual and financial object for womyn-born-womyn. You are an incomplete being that was not created with a womb. Therefore, you are, by all definition handed to me by Yahweh's alter ego, the goddess Diane, a completely useless being, completely useless at servicing womyn-born-womyn, no matter how capricious their needs, which is your sole reason for existence, so you deserve whatever came to you.
And you'd know, wouldn't you, seeing as how it's ALWAYS one of you gaslighting asshole managers or a fucker in a CxO position who is DOING the sexual harassment!
Looks like we've got a bunch of boys over here giving feminism and the misogynerd narrative plenty of ammo by freely admitting that they're unable to control their own urges.
Additionally, the little boys over here seem to be more than willing to allow feminism and the media to frame the narrative such that these sexual harassers are technologists in technical careers.
Ah yeah. I'm a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to those things, so I didn't mean to give the impression I thought the electoral college was a bad idea. Besides being in a demographic that's supposed to make me beholden to the D team, Hillary was the first time I voted for either an R or a D for POTUS. I usually go Libertarian.
What I'd meant to express was that all this whinging about the electoral college is bullcrap. I don't think Hillary even showed up once to campaign in my state, which went to Sanders in the primary.
Well, the DNC sure didn't help Sanders. Locking his campaign out of fundraising data it should have had access to for a few days there was lovely. What other internal politics didn't we hear about that contributed to the Coronation? I also wonder who decided to sick #BLM on Sanders?
Also, this bullcrap about the electoral college. Seems to me that states where Sanders won flopped and went for Trump. I don't think the DNC or Hillary's campaign were correctly playing the electoral college game.
In the end, I voted for Hillary as well.
<sarcasm> I think that problem is that America just isn't ready for a Lizard Person-American as president yet. There are a lot of things that people don't understand very well about the lizard people, and I initially had some of the same misapprehensions when I voted for Sanders in the primary. For example, Hillary is a natural born citizen just like you or me, even if she's of Thubani heritage. That's one of the things that makes America great, imo. Whether one's ancestors are from thousands of miles away across an ocean or hundreds of light years away across a star ocean, we're all Americans together.
To paraphrase Chancellor Gorkon, I see that our two species have a long way to go. </sarcasm>
It also demonstrates how the misogynerd narrative works.
Nobody wants to actually address the problems of sexual harassment, if there are any. What it's about is dragging an entire gender caste in a certain profession through the mud in the press repeatedly.
Feminism is at best a group of trolls, and the misogynerd narrative is trolling. At worst, feminism is a hate group based on its behavior towards trans women, but as concerns the general charge of sexual harassment against an entire gender caste, it's trolling.
(Why gender caste? Because feminism believes that we live in a caste system like in India, where one's station in life is determined at birth according to the letter they put on one's birth certificate. At its core, it's artificial and has really nothing to do with gender or body parts in a physiological sense at all. I suppose I might as well just call it the feminist caste system. I should also mention it's predicated on the idea that gender is merely a social construct, which is demonstrably false.)
Of course, the end goal of all that is to drive down wages and cement the impression in the mind of the general public that anybody can code the same as anybody can flip burgers.
Then why don't you do something about SV, jackass? SV isn't the whole tech sector.
You know that I have been specifically denied opportunities because of my assigned gender at birth? Let me guess, that's not sexism because it's impossible to be sexist against assigned males. I've been sexually harassed. Let me guess, not sexism because it's impossible to sexually harass an assigned male?
What about molestation? I've been molested by a womyn-born-womyn. Let me guess, my own feelings of being violated don't count because you're a horny cisgendered heterosexual dipshit who thinks that all assigned males are as shitty of a person as you are.
You believe that every womyn-born-womyn who has attempted to do my job has failed because I'm part of some crazy conspiracy of half the planet's population to exclude them from programming careers, huh? Do you also buy into the bathroom rape theory? Do you think I'm out there using my advanced infiltrator transsexual capabilities to invade the women's restroom and rape them?
It's never occurred to you that programming is actually difficult. All assigned males in the whole world except for you and you alone (as the One Good Man) are conspiring against womyn-born-womyn, huh?
Bet you don't even realize that trans men exist, do you? Yeah, that's right, one of your "Hunnies" (as you undoubtedly think of them) might undergo gender transition and live as a man. I'll bet you didn't even think of that. What would you even do? Would you finally admit that somebody assigned the female gender at birth who transitions to living as a man doesn't need your help? How does that play out in your world? Does that person become a rapist the second they begin testosterone HRT? Or didn't you even think that was possible?
Womyn-born-womyn are merely sexual objects to you, aren't they? Womyn-born-womyn are all helpless princesses in another castle that need you to ride in on a white horse to save them from evil bathroom invaders like me, huh? They're not individuals with hopes and dreams and challenges to you, are they? And let me guess,
- lesbians exist solely for your sexual pleasure too - gay men are by definition misogynists because they don't date women - trans women are metaphysical rapists with woman suits who are lurking in every bathroom just waiting to rape one of your "Hunnies" - trans men don't exist, amirite? Gender transition is just something for mentally ill assigned males. The pure, virginal womyn-born-womyn princess you worship would never do something like eschew being sex objects for you to live as men. Doesn't even exist in your world, does it?
People like you really, really get under my skin. You do realize that assholes like you are no different from the assholes at Uber? You just wave a different flag.
Aren't you just a little snowflake? I see you're all about getting handouts and participation awards. Your sense of entitlement to other people's hard work is disgusting.
If I can buy a house without needing my hand held, anybody can do it except for pussies like you apparently. Snowflakes like you don't understand the value of hard work and sacrifice. It's all about safe spaces, isn't it? Can't get your pwecious little feelings hurt when the man in the bank says you need a down payment. Gotta run home to mommy and daddy like a pussy.
tl;dr I should have used sarcasm tags. I forget this place is like the big city. I'm more used to the red site now which is like a small town where everybody knows everybody else. And now the part that's too long:
Well, I did miss the MWMF closing down at first I admit, being (basically) a trans woman (with complications thanks to TERFs) who would point to MWMF as proof that all feminism is trans-exclusionary but not giving enough of a shit to actually join Camp Trans (learned about that from a trans woman I met at tech convention). BarbaraHudson did fill me in after MWMF had to shut down when I used to post here more. Mostly I post to the red site these days where some of my posts are even serious! (Though increasingly as AC when I'm not posting about something that'll immediately give me away.)
I forget if that was before or after I scrambled the password to my old UID on both sites. Haha, nearly had a change of heart there about feminism (thank you AmiMoJo, BarbaraHudson, and Azuma Hazuki for at least attempting to get through my thick skull), but then some local TERFeminists (I suspect but cannot prove, events were just too weird to be random chance) gave me a smack down that wound up forcing me to drive a 300 mile round trip to see a doctor over something THAT OBAMACARE DID! Argh!!!eleven!1!
These days I've said essentially "fuck it." I'm not certain that TERFs actually are a minority voice in feminism, and I'm certain they're not a minority in my neck of the woods! I understand that transfeminism is a thing, but... I've just been put through too much shit because of the misogynerd narrative (was interesting because it was before gamers were dead and misogynerd came into usage), because of rape culture, because of you-name-it. You can stitch it together based on my posts on the red site.
If all feminists were like the three that I named in this post that at least proved to me that not all feminists are TERFs (and then... only one has the fucking status to say that as a feminist, sorry to the other two, and even then I don't know that. On the internet, nobody knows you're a T-900 advanced infiltrator from the post-apocalyptic future!), I would probably be a feminist. Unfortunately, they're not. The misogynerd narrative has gotten so ridiculous, especially the personal shit it's caused me, that I'm going to be lucky if I don't find out in a month's time from now that I'm also transphobic and homophobic in addition to being a misogynist.
Yep, I'm a certified misogynist according to one TERF I still see on a daily basis solely because of my assigned gender at birth. Because of a fucking letter on a fucking legal document that may or may not even be the current fucking legal document I'd pull out if you asked me to. It's all my fault (hence the collective and several part of my other post) that there are no womyn-born-womyn programmers, that compilers emit error messages, and fucking Garbage In Garbage Out is all my fault.
Yep, that's right! Garbage In Garbage Out is the fault of all assigned males (including trans women) EVEN THOUGH LOVELACE HERSELF FIRST PUT FORWARD THE NOTION (in her Notes)!!!!!eleven!1! Argh!!eleven!
They don't even fucking comprehend her Notes, and they have the arrogance to proclaim that command lines and compilers themselves are tools of the patriarchy specifically designed by assigned males to be inaccessible to womyn-born-womyn!! TERFeminists can get fucked. No, they can get raped for all I care. Not just because of the misery they've caused me, not just because of the misery they've caused all trans women, but because they and their fucking misogynerd narrative and their insistence that "coding" is "easy" (did not read the other article on that subject) or would be if not for some grand conspiracy... they are the ones most directly responsible for the lack of women progr
Not nearly good enough, you misogynerds! It's all the fault, collectively and severally, of you inferior beings who can't give birth to a child that there are no womyn-born-womyn in tech careers!
Nothing is good enough until the womyn-born-womyn programmers start precipitating out of the æther!
I'm disappointed, grrls! You can do better than this! I count only 7 mentions of "Bradley" in the comments and 21 mentions of "confuse" in 302 comments.
Show those misogynerds that Bradley is a man with a mental illness no matter how confused he is. He needs psychiatric treatment, not to have his body butchered in an attempt to rape the female form. Drive it home to this rapist that he's an incomplete being and never will be a womyn-born-womyn no matter how delusional he expects the rest of us to be.
Folks on the red site thought I was trolling when I said that feminism considers cannabis flower a date rape drug.
Once again we have the Misogynerd Narrative in full swing, and this time it's working not only to trivialize the skills necessary to program a computer but to demonize cannabis flower.
Feminism: you have blood on your hands if you join forces with Jeff Sessions on this one. But of course you don't care, do you feminism? If it works to oppress black women, that's just fine with you. If it takes medicine out of the hands of people who need it, you've already demonstrated with trans women that's fine with you.
If I may paraphrase Azetbur: "Feminism." Why, the very name is sexist. Feminism is no more than a white upper class cisgendered woman only club.
The Russians had nothing to do with wrapping the US around the transgender bathroom axle for a year.
You're correct. That would be the fruits of 30 years of effort on the part of feminism paying off and making you think that people who are transgendered are guys who want to rape women in the bathroom.
So...
Why then do so many guys get so upset when I need to take a piss and head into the men's room?
I spent the first 20 years of my life as a guy, so I think I know the correct etiquette in the men's room. This is not a problem my actions are causing. This is a problem that is caused because I just simply fucking look like a woman.
Yeah, dude looks like a lady. And I don't mean just long hair. I mean cleavage. I mean my face. I mean body language.
It's no longer about how feminists intimidated and threatened me in college. I refuse to feel bad any more when I make a man uncomfortable when I'm in the men's room.
YOU CAN GO TO HELL WHEN I AM USING THE BATHROOM YOU YOURSELVESDEMAND I USE.
Never judge a book by it's cover Or who you gonna love by your lover Sayin' love put me wise to her love in disguise She had the body of a Venus, Lord imagine my surprise.
Slight nitpick before I launch into crazy mode: You jumbled some letters in bowdlerization (redirects to that page).
Just for the peanut gallery:
The term derives from Thomas Bowdler's 1818 edition of William Shakespeare's plays, which he reworked in order to make them more suitable, in his opinion, for women and children. He similarly edited Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
The puritans have been at this for a while, and they're not going to stop any time soon. The real world is not childproof. etc etc. If anything, I would fault the Abrahamic religions with this. Political Correctness really is just an extension of puritanism, Victorianism, etc. That's how I really feel anyway.
Crazy mode engage!
San Francisco was going through a phase where the public libraries were Bolwderizing Mary Poppins so that the slang spoken by the Black maid was converted to a more respectable kings english. Original copies were pulled from the libraries.
You're behind the times, you LUDDITE! We freak out about transSEXuals now! They're editing everything so that nobody is allowed to identify within the gender dichotomy! All pronouns are being replaced with zie and zem and zhey! It's the end of the world! Your daughters are being raped in the bathroom by transgendered Illuminati lizard people!
Why don't you pay for your own prison-industrial complex and pay for your interventionist foreign policy and military-industrial complex when you have it?
To conservatives everything is great if somebody else is paying for it.
This is the point where you've been told enough that you're an arrogant elitist who just thinks every else is stupid that you begin to realize that all the people saying that really are stupid and have every reason to be defensive and insecure about it because THEY ACTUALLY ARE THAT GODDAMNED FUCKING STUPID!
the other is put into separate accounts and you are entitled to get this back when you get old
You really don't have any clue how SS works, do you?
That line item on your W2 goes to SS recipients today.
There is nothing to "get... back when you get old." If you're young (under 40-ish), there's basically 0% chance you're ever going to receive a single dime from SS. Just doing a random DuckDuckGo search gives me an estimate by the National Center for Policy Analysis that SS will be bankrupt in 2033.
I won't be eligible under current SS regulations until some time after 2045/2050 or so to get anything "back" (because I'm not getting anything "back," I'd be getting it from young people's paychecks then), and even then they're always raising the age. It'll probably be 90 before somebody born when I was can claim benefits. Well, I might get a dime or two if I can live as long as my great-grandmother. I'm getting bupkis if I only live as long as the other side of the family.
SS is not a 401(k). It's not a retirement plan. It's not a savings account. It's a scam. At the very least, I should be able to put the money in my 401(k) instead of supporting the "great" generation. Yeah, "great" all right. Great at stealing from me, and great at being completely irresponsible with their retirement and dependent on Old Folks' UBI! (OMG Socialism!) Also a good reason to vote Libertarian. Fuck the "great" generation and their "socialism for me and fuck all for you."
Are there big pushes elsewhere to get more men into female-dominated professions?
There is a push to get men into homecare/home health and nursing careers. RNs and even home health aides can make decent money. You would have to be subscribed to industry newsletters to be aware of it, though. I'm only aware because I occasionally get the accidental subscription. One of them even has a regular feature that spotlights a male caregiver or home health aide of the quarter.
The media isn't interested in it. Instead, we see the "misogynerd narrative" plastered all over the place.
I know that I am sick and fucking tired of being held collectively and severally accountable for bullshit from gaslighting asshole managers. Know what I do about sexually harassment? I tend to unscrew the sexual harasser's head and shit down his neck. I don't know why feminism needs this passive-aggressive smear campaign and the collective+several punishment bullshit. It doesn't do a single damned thing to any gaslighting asshole manager.
Thanks to feminism and its insistence on collective+several punishment, the gaslighting assholes who are responsible for this shit walk free. Think it makes them feel bad at all when there's yet another article about how all assigned males in tech are sexual harassers? Nope. Think it does anything to them? Nope. The only way to deal with a sexual harasser is to tear his head off and shit down his neck, figuratively speaking.
The misogynerd narrative! Push it! I need more misogynerd narrative! Tell me why sexual harassment is the only reason! Tell me why I'm a rapist who merely hasn't been caught in the act yet!
Wall Street must be absolutely free of sexual harassment! Nobody ever gets sexually harassed on Wall Street! Otherwise we'd hear about how sexist Wall Street is and how there's a huge push to get more womyn-born-womyn investment bankers!
Build it up! Build it up! Build it up!
When abortion becomes illegal, this will be instrumental in the retribution feminism is planning.
You keep making films like The Dark Knight and Interstellar, and I'll keep watching them in the theater! I really enjoyed watching Interstellar in 3D.
Memento, The Prestige, Inception... all good films imho, but I'm not sure what the theater would add. I regret going to the theater for The Dark Knight Rises. Actually Inception was interesting in the theater, but it just wasn't the movie I thought it was going to be.
I'll bet Inception would be really good in a cannabis club with a theater room. There's an idea for those of you out there in Denver.
Two points of view: 1. The sun rises in the East. 2. The sun rises in the West.
Now which is correct?
Neither are true. I heard this from an AC on the red site, so I'm certain this is actually what's going on. The sun doesn't rise, and it doesn't set either. It's an optical illusion caused by the atmosphere. Don't tell me you're still listening to all the fake news about the ball Earth model that the lizard people want you to believe!
The Earth is actually flat, and the sun circles around the middle of the earth, which in the ball Earth model is called the "north" pole. If you look at the logo for the U.N., you'll note that it's a true map of the Earth, something known as an "azimuthal equidistant projection." Also it doesn't make any sense that airplanes would follow complicated, curved paths. They actually fly in straight lines, as you can see by viewing any air traffic map on an azimuthal equidistant map. The lizard people are dangling the truth right in front of all of us!
Plus, if you remember Pizzagate, pizzas are the exact same shape as the Earth! They're discs with a ridge along the outer edge that represents the Antarctica Ice Wall, beyond which is the todash darkness! This proves that cheeze pizza is an endorsement of the lizard people's pedophilia!
If the neighborhood next door has a long-term infestation of head lice that just won't subside, do you do something to help them out of it, or just sit on your porch saying "look at all those dirty people."?
They're religiously objecting to washing their hair. I've tried explaining to them over and over again that the reason we don't have head lice is because we wash our hair on a daily basis. I've also tried pointing out to them that their holy book says that they shouldn't eat bacon either, but that they have no problem eating bacon.
I just can't get through to them. They think they'll go to hell if their wash their hair. This one guy even started screaming and gesticulating at me the other day while I was buying shampoo, going off about how I'm some ivory tower liberal elitist devil worshipper. He was adamant that his god infested him with lice because of how angry I make his god every time I buy shampoo.
Do you have any suggestions for how to get through to these people and help them see that washing one's hair is just as acceptable as eating bacon? I even tried quoting from the second half of their holy book about their prophet Eli and the parable of the good barber! I'm at my wits' end!
All I can do is sit on my porch, crack open a b33r, and laugh at them. Otherwise I would weep.
At least they're not as bad as those heathens that use Emacs!
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Well, it's never actually happened to me, personally, but that's because I heeded well the warnings I was given during the presentation that was mandatory for all those assigned to the male gender at birth to attend during university orientation. Attendance for womyn-born-womyn was optional.
For example, I was specifically warned to not ever be seen within 20 feet of any womyn-born-womyn after dark.
That worked out pretty well for me. I was also told that if I even thought about using the restroom of the gender I look like (female), I'd be expelled for attempted rape, and my transcript would be permanently sealed. I hadn't even asked if I'd be able to use the womyn-born-womyn bathroom! It was merely what the feminist club on campus assumed. I've never felt a compelling need to use a specific restroom, since I have no idea what the fuck is in the women's room that isn't in the men's room.
Rather than waste more money on a university that was obviously run by transphobic feminists, I dropped out. I only realized later that I probably had a pretty good Title IX lawsuit (focusing on the sexist orientation policy--far be it from me to attempt to press the bathroom issue these days), but only recently have I had the resources to even think about starting a lawsuit with a university. Oh well.
BUT! Why the fuck did I just try to communicate something to you? Am I fucking stupid? Yes, I must be fucking stupid. Let me FTFY!
Be careful, or "welcoming and inclusive" becomes sexual harassment.
No it doesn't. Whatever it was you did to upset that particular cisgendered woman, whether it was telling her that she didn't get the right answer on her algebra homework because she didn't apply the theorem correctly, or whether it was telling her that her computer program didn't produce the correct answer because she didn't perform her analysis correctly, and because I'm a sexually frustrated white night who's desperate for pussy, I'm totally not going to quote Ada Lovelace:
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with.
So, since I'm convinced that I'm the One Good Man and how dare you imply that My Hunnies are less than perfect!!!, I'm totally not going to quote ADA LOVELACE HERSELF, nope!
Anyway, where was I. Right! You are only a sexual and financial object for womyn-born-womyn. You are an incomplete being that was not created with a womb. Therefore, you are, by all definition handed to me by Yahweh's alter ego, the goddess Diane, a completely useless being, completely useless at servicing womyn-born-womyn, no matter how capricious their needs, which is your sole reason for existence, so you deserve whatever came to you.
And you'd know, wouldn't you, seeing as how it's ALWAYS one of you gaslighting asshole managers or a fucker in a CxO position who is DOING the sexual harassment!
Scrolling through the comments. Just wow.
Looks like we've got a bunch of boys over here giving feminism and the misogynerd narrative plenty of ammo by freely admitting that they're unable to control their own urges.
Additionally, the little boys over here seem to be more than willing to allow feminism and the media to frame the narrative such that these sexual harassers are technologists in technical careers.
Fail.
Ah yeah. I'm a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to those things, so I didn't mean to give the impression I thought the electoral college was a bad idea. Besides being in a demographic that's supposed to make me beholden to the D team, Hillary was the first time I voted for either an R or a D for POTUS. I usually go Libertarian.
What I'd meant to express was that all this whinging about the electoral college is bullcrap. I don't think Hillary even showed up once to campaign in my state, which went to Sanders in the primary.
Well, the DNC sure didn't help Sanders. Locking his campaign out of fundraising data it should have had access to for a few days there was lovely. What other internal politics didn't we hear about that contributed to the Coronation? I also wonder who decided to sick #BLM on Sanders?
Also, this bullcrap about the electoral college. Seems to me that states where Sanders won flopped and went for Trump. I don't think the DNC or Hillary's campaign were correctly playing the electoral college game.
In the end, I voted for Hillary as well.
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I think that problem is that America just isn't ready for a Lizard Person-American as president yet. There are a lot of things that people don't understand very well about the lizard people, and I initially had some of the same misapprehensions when I voted for Sanders in the primary. For example, Hillary is a natural born citizen just like you or me, even if she's of Thubani heritage. That's one of the things that makes America great, imo. Whether one's ancestors are from thousands of miles away across an ocean or hundreds of light years away across a star ocean, we're all Americans together.
To paraphrase Chancellor Gorkon, I see that our two species have a long way to go.
</sarcasm>
That makes it make sense.
It also demonstrates how the misogynerd narrative works.
Nobody wants to actually address the problems of sexual harassment, if there are any. What it's about is dragging an entire gender caste in a certain profession through the mud in the press repeatedly.
Feminism is at best a group of trolls, and the misogynerd narrative is trolling. At worst, feminism is a hate group based on its behavior towards trans women, but as concerns the general charge of sexual harassment against an entire gender caste, it's trolling.
(Why gender caste? Because feminism believes that we live in a caste system like in India, where one's station in life is determined at birth according to the letter they put on one's birth certificate. At its core, it's artificial and has really nothing to do with gender or body parts in a physiological sense at all. I suppose I might as well just call it the feminist caste system. I should also mention it's predicated on the idea that gender is merely a social construct, which is demonstrably false.)
Of course, the end goal of all that is to drive down wages and cement the impression in the mind of the general public that anybody can code the same as anybody can flip burgers.
Then why don't you do something about SV, jackass? SV isn't the whole tech sector.
You know that I have been specifically denied opportunities because of my assigned gender at birth? Let me guess, that's not sexism because it's impossible to be sexist against assigned males. I've been sexually harassed. Let me guess, not sexism because it's impossible to sexually harass an assigned male?
What about molestation? I've been molested by a womyn-born-womyn. Let me guess, my own feelings of being violated don't count because you're a horny cisgendered heterosexual dipshit who thinks that all assigned males are as shitty of a person as you are.
You believe that every womyn-born-womyn who has attempted to do my job has failed because I'm part of some crazy conspiracy of half the planet's population to exclude them from programming careers, huh? Do you also buy into the bathroom rape theory? Do you think I'm out there using my advanced infiltrator transsexual capabilities to invade the women's restroom and rape them?
It's never occurred to you that programming is actually difficult. All assigned males in the whole world except for you and you alone (as the One Good Man) are conspiring against womyn-born-womyn, huh?
Bet you don't even realize that trans men exist, do you? Yeah, that's right, one of your "Hunnies" (as you undoubtedly think of them) might undergo gender transition and live as a man. I'll bet you didn't even think of that. What would you even do? Would you finally admit that somebody assigned the female gender at birth who transitions to living as a man doesn't need your help? How does that play out in your world? Does that person become a rapist the second they begin testosterone HRT? Or didn't you even think that was possible?
Womyn-born-womyn are merely sexual objects to you, aren't they? Womyn-born-womyn are all helpless princesses in another castle that need you to ride in on a white horse to save them from evil bathroom invaders like me, huh? They're not individuals with hopes and dreams and challenges to you, are they? And let me guess,
- lesbians exist solely for your sexual pleasure too
- gay men are by definition misogynists because they don't date women
- trans women are metaphysical rapists with woman suits who are lurking in every bathroom just waiting to rape one of your "Hunnies"
- trans men don't exist, amirite? Gender transition is just something for mentally ill assigned males. The pure, virginal womyn-born-womyn princess you worship would never do something like eschew being sex objects for you to live as men. Doesn't even exist in your world, does it?
People like you really, really get under my skin. You do realize that assholes like you are no different from the assholes at Uber? You just wave a different flag.
What, were landlines free for you fuckers?
Aren't you just a little snowflake? I see you're all about getting handouts and participation awards. Your sense of entitlement to other people's hard work is disgusting.
If I can buy a house without needing my hand held, anybody can do it except for pussies like you apparently. Snowflakes like you don't understand the value of hard work and sacrifice. It's all about safe spaces, isn't it? Can't get your pwecious little feelings hurt when the man in the bank says you need a down payment. Gotta run home to mommy and daddy like a pussy.
tl;dr I should have used sarcasm tags. I forget this place is like the big city. I'm more used to the red site now which is like a small town where everybody knows everybody else. And now the part that's too long:
Well, I did miss the MWMF closing down at first I admit, being (basically) a trans woman (with complications thanks to TERFs) who would point to MWMF as proof that all feminism is trans-exclusionary but not giving enough of a shit to actually join Camp Trans (learned about that from a trans woman I met at tech convention). BarbaraHudson did fill me in after MWMF had to shut down when I used to post here more. Mostly I post to the red site these days where some of my posts are even serious! (Though increasingly as AC when I'm not posting about something that'll immediately give me away.)
I forget if that was before or after I scrambled the password to my old UID on both sites. Haha, nearly had a change of heart there about feminism (thank you AmiMoJo, BarbaraHudson, and Azuma Hazuki for at least attempting to get through my thick skull), but then some local TERFeminists (I suspect but cannot prove, events were just too weird to be random chance) gave me a smack down that wound up forcing me to drive a 300 mile round trip to see a doctor over something THAT OBAMACARE DID! Argh!!!eleven!1!
These days I've said essentially "fuck it." I'm not certain that TERFs actually are a minority voice in feminism, and I'm certain they're not a minority in my neck of the woods! I understand that transfeminism is a thing, but... I've just been put through too much shit because of the misogynerd narrative (was interesting because it was before gamers were dead and misogynerd came into usage), because of rape culture, because of you-name-it. You can stitch it together based on my posts on the red site.
If all feminists were like the three that I named in this post that at least proved to me that not all feminists are TERFs (and then... only one has the fucking status to say that as a feminist, sorry to the other two, and even then I don't know that. On the internet, nobody knows you're a T-900 advanced infiltrator from the post-apocalyptic future!), I would probably be a feminist. Unfortunately, they're not. The misogynerd narrative has gotten so ridiculous, especially the personal shit it's caused me, that I'm going to be lucky if I don't find out in a month's time from now that I'm also transphobic and homophobic in addition to being a misogynist.
Yep, I'm a certified misogynist according to one TERF I still see on a daily basis solely because of my assigned gender at birth. Because of a fucking letter on a fucking legal document that may or may not even be the current fucking legal document I'd pull out if you asked me to. It's all my fault (hence the collective and several part of my other post) that there are no womyn-born-womyn programmers, that compilers emit error messages, and fucking Garbage In Garbage Out is all my fault.
Yep, that's right! Garbage In Garbage Out is the fault of all assigned males (including trans women) EVEN THOUGH LOVELACE HERSELF FIRST PUT FORWARD THE NOTION (in her Notes)!!!!!eleven!1! Argh!!eleven!
They don't even fucking comprehend her Notes, and they have the arrogance to proclaim that command lines and compilers themselves are tools of the patriarchy specifically designed by assigned males to be inaccessible to womyn-born-womyn!! TERFeminists can get fucked. No, they can get raped for all I care. Not just because of the misery they've caused me, not just because of the misery they've caused all trans women, but because they and their fucking misogynerd narrative and their insistence that "coding" is "easy" (did not read the other article on that subject) or would be if not for some grand conspiracy... they are the ones most directly responsible for the lack of women progr
Not nearly good enough, you misogynerds! It's all the fault, collectively and severally, of you inferior beings who can't give birth to a child that there are no womyn-born-womyn in tech careers!
Nothing is good enough until the womyn-born-womyn programmers start precipitating out of the æther!
Go feminism!
I'm disappointed, grrls! You can do better than this! I count only 7 mentions of "Bradley" in the comments and 21 mentions of "confuse" in 302 comments.
Show those misogynerds that Bradley is a man with a mental illness no matter how confused he is. He needs psychiatric treatment, not to have his body butchered in an attempt to rape the female form. Drive it home to this rapist that he's an incomplete being and never will be a womyn-born-womyn no matter how delusional he expects the rest of us to be.
Folks on the red site thought I was trolling when I said that feminism considers cannabis flower a date rape drug.
Once again we have the Misogynerd Narrative in full swing, and this time it's working not only to trivialize the skills necessary to program a computer but to demonize cannabis flower.
Feminism: you have blood on your hands if you join forces with Jeff Sessions on this one. But of course you don't care, do you feminism? If it works to oppress black women, that's just fine with you. If it takes medicine out of the hands of people who need it, you've already demonstrated with trans women that's fine with you.
If I may paraphrase Azetbur: "Feminism." Why, the very name is sexist. Feminism is no more than a white upper class cisgendered woman only club.
The Russians had nothing to do with wrapping the US around the transgender bathroom axle for a year.
You're correct. That would be the fruits of 30 years of effort on the part of feminism paying off and making you think that people who are transgendered are guys who want to rape women in the bathroom.
So...
Why then do so many guys get so upset when I need to take a piss and head into the men's room?
I spent the first 20 years of my life as a guy, so I think I know the correct etiquette in the men's room. This is not a problem my actions are causing. This is a problem that is caused because I just simply fucking look like a woman.
Yeah, dude looks like a lady. And I don't mean just long hair. I mean cleavage. I mean my face. I mean body language.
It's no longer about how feminists intimidated and threatened me in college. I refuse to feel bad any more when I make a man uncomfortable when I'm in the men's room.
YOU CAN GO TO HELL WHEN I AM USING THE BATHROOM YOU YOURSELVES DEMAND I USE.
Never judge a book by it's cover
Or who you gonna love by your lover
Sayin' love put me wise to her love in disguise
She had the body of a Venus, Lord imagine my surprise.
Slight nitpick before I launch into crazy mode: You jumbled some letters in bowdlerization (redirects to that page).
Just for the peanut gallery:
The term derives from Thomas Bowdler's 1818 edition of William Shakespeare's plays, which he reworked in order to make them more suitable, in his opinion, for women and children. He similarly edited Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
The puritans have been at this for a while, and they're not going to stop any time soon. The real world is not childproof. etc etc. If anything, I would fault the Abrahamic religions with this. Political Correctness really is just an extension of puritanism, Victorianism, etc. That's how I really feel anyway.
Crazy mode engage!
San Francisco was going through a phase where the public libraries were Bolwderizing Mary Poppins so that the slang spoken by the Black maid was converted to a more respectable kings english. Original copies were pulled from the libraries.
You're behind the times, you LUDDITE! We freak out about transSEXuals now! They're editing everything so that nobody is allowed to identify within the gender dichotomy! All pronouns are being replaced with zie and zem and zhey! It's the end of the world! Your daughters are being raped in the bathroom by transgendered Illuminati lizard people!
I'm not really accusing conservatives of being defined by the immigrant hating, pro-violence, alt-right movement.
Maybe you should be, because that's what conservatives are these days.
Principled conservatism is dead. Modern conservatives want you fucking dead but are just too chickenshit to attempt following through on it.
But transSEXuals!
Why don't you pay for your own prison-industrial complex and pay for your interventionist foreign policy and military-industrial complex when you have it?
To conservatives everything is great if somebody else is paying for it.
Yep.
This is the point where you've been told enough that you're an arrogant elitist who just thinks every else is stupid that you begin to realize that all the people saying that really are stupid and have every reason to be defensive and insecure about it because THEY ACTUALLY ARE THAT GODDAMNED FUCKING STUPID!
That and I don't need no steenkin grammar.
the other is put into separate accounts and you are entitled to get this back when you get old
You really don't have any clue how SS works, do you?
That line item on your W2 goes to SS recipients today.
There is nothing to "get... back when you get old." If you're young (under 40-ish), there's basically 0% chance you're ever going to receive a single dime from SS. Just doing a random DuckDuckGo search gives me an estimate by the National Center for Policy Analysis that SS will be bankrupt in 2033.
I won't be eligible under current SS regulations until some time after 2045/2050 or so to get anything "back" (because I'm not getting anything "back," I'd be getting it from young people's paychecks then), and even then they're always raising the age. It'll probably be 90 before somebody born when I was can claim benefits. Well, I might get a dime or two if I can live as long as my great-grandmother. I'm getting bupkis if I only live as long as the other side of the family.
SS is not a 401(k). It's not a retirement plan. It's not a savings account. It's a scam. At the very least, I should be able to put the money in my 401(k) instead of supporting the "great" generation. Yeah, "great" all right. Great at stealing from me, and great at being completely irresponsible with their retirement and dependent on Old Folks' UBI! (OMG Socialism!) Also a good reason to vote Libertarian. Fuck the "great" generation and their "socialism for me and fuck all for you."
You see the problem here?
Are there big pushes elsewhere to get more men into female-dominated professions?
There is a push to get men into homecare/home health and nursing careers. RNs and even home health aides can make decent money. You would have to be subscribed to industry newsletters to be aware of it, though. I'm only aware because I occasionally get the accidental subscription. One of them even has a regular feature that spotlights a male caregiver or home health aide of the quarter.
The media isn't interested in it. Instead, we see the "misogynerd narrative" plastered all over the place.
I know that I am sick and fucking tired of being held collectively and severally accountable for bullshit from gaslighting asshole managers. Know what I do about sexually harassment? I tend to unscrew the sexual harasser's head and shit down his neck. I don't know why feminism needs this passive-aggressive smear campaign and the collective+several punishment bullshit. It doesn't do a single damned thing to any gaslighting asshole manager.
Thanks to feminism and its insistence on collective+several punishment, the gaslighting assholes who are responsible for this shit walk free. Think it makes them feel bad at all when there's yet another article about how all assigned males in tech are sexual harassers? Nope. Think it does anything to them? Nope. The only way to deal with a sexual harasser is to tear his head off and shit down his neck, figuratively speaking.
The misogynerd narrative! Push it! I need more misogynerd narrative! Tell me why sexual harassment is the only reason! Tell me why I'm a rapist who merely hasn't been caught in the act yet!
Wall Street must be absolutely free of sexual harassment! Nobody ever gets sexually harassed on Wall Street! Otherwise we'd hear about how sexist Wall Street is and how there's a huge push to get more womyn-born-womyn investment bankers!
Build it up! Build it up! Build it up!
When abortion becomes illegal, this will be instrumental in the retribution feminism is planning.
You keep making films like The Dark Knight and Interstellar, and I'll keep watching them in the theater! I really enjoyed watching Interstellar in 3D.
Memento, The Prestige, Inception... all good films imho, but I'm not sure what the theater would add. I regret going to the theater for The Dark Knight Rises. Actually Inception was interesting in the theater, but it just wasn't the movie I thought it was going to be.
I'll bet Inception would be really good in a cannabis club with a theater room. There's an idea for those of you out there in Denver.
Two points of view:
1. The sun rises in the East.
2. The sun rises in the West.
Now which is correct?
Neither are true. I heard this from an AC on the red site, so I'm certain this is actually what's going on. The sun doesn't rise, and it doesn't set either. It's an optical illusion caused by the atmosphere. Don't tell me you're still listening to all the fake news about the ball Earth model that the lizard people want you to believe!
The Earth is actually flat, and the sun circles around the middle of the earth, which in the ball Earth model is called the "north" pole. If you look at the logo for the U.N., you'll note that it's a true map of the Earth, something known as an "azimuthal equidistant projection." Also it doesn't make any sense that airplanes would follow complicated, curved paths. They actually fly in straight lines, as you can see by viewing any air traffic map on an azimuthal equidistant map. The lizard people are dangling the truth right in front of all of us!
Plus, if you remember Pizzagate, pizzas are the exact same shape as the Earth! They're discs with a ridge along the outer edge that represents the Antarctica Ice Wall, beyond which is the todash darkness! This proves that cheeze pizza is an endorsement of the lizard people's pedophilia!
Q.E.D.!
If the neighborhood next door has a long-term infestation of head lice that just won't subside, do you do something to help them out of it, or just sit on your porch saying "look at all those dirty people."?
They're religiously objecting to washing their hair. I've tried explaining to them over and over again that the reason we don't have head lice is because we wash our hair on a daily basis. I've also tried pointing out to them that their holy book says that they shouldn't eat bacon either, but that they have no problem eating bacon.
I just can't get through to them. They think they'll go to hell if their wash their hair. This one guy even started screaming and gesticulating at me the other day while I was buying shampoo, going off about how I'm some ivory tower liberal elitist devil worshipper. He was adamant that his god infested him with lice because of how angry I make his god every time I buy shampoo.
Do you have any suggestions for how to get through to these people and help them see that washing one's hair is just as acceptable as eating bacon? I even tried quoting from the second half of their holy book about their prophet Eli and the parable of the good barber! I'm at my wits' end!
All I can do is sit on my porch, crack open a b33r, and laugh at them. Otherwise I would weep.
At least they're not as bad as those heathens that use Emacs!