First off, I wasn't attempting to knock him/her down. I don't know that who I was talking to was a woman, I assumed they were male from a previous comment they had made.
"Just because your wife can make you do the dishes does not mean that women as a global class are empowered. This is the kind of folsky wisdom that is hilarious when it's in a "Cathy" comic, but when applied to reality, it's a dangerous denial"
I'm not married, and Cathy is a horrible excuse for a comic. I wasn't implying that women don't have a hard time in aspects of todays society and especially in some cultures, but I think society in general has moved forward much faster than some believe. I'm sure that's mostly politics though... squeaky wheel gets the grease and all.
"as many as 95% of domestic violence perpetrators are male"
Great statistic, it shows that many men are short tempered dicks and that too many women stay in abusive relationships. Although, it doesn't account for the men whom are too embarassed to report violence against them, I doubt they would change the figure much... maybe closer to 90%.
"Most women (I would claim the vast majority) would gladly pick 'Not being objectified, cat-called, occasionally terrorized, and generally humiliated based on my gender'"
Again, I say that being thought of sexually isn't objectification. I think of my girlfriend sexually, yet not as an object.
Maybe that's just me and how I was raised, sex is something people do together, not something somebody does on somebody else. Thinking of somebody sexually makes me want to engage in activities with them, not on them.
I think that idea is based on long time standards of male dominance where their satisfaction was key and a womans role was subservient. I think it's safe to say that, for the most part, sex isn't a man acting upon a woman anymore.
"that gets back to the fact that you don't seem to have a very clear understanding of what feminists really want, as opposed to what some random women you know want."
On the contrary, I had the esteemed pleasure to have http://orion.njit.edu/merlin/people/ricki/ as a professor. If you look through her publication list, you'll see she is very focused on the area of gender bias. I think the amount of papers I've read on the issue and discussions give me a good basis on what feminism is about.
You'll find that equity through inequality is a major theme supported by feminism. Much like affirmative action. Where the historically subservient class is given an advantage over the historically ruling class.
My personal opinion is that this method doesn't work. But I have no evidence for or against that.
"I think it bears notice that it is Men in a position of power over Women pretty much the world over."
You must not have had many relationships... Not meant as in insult, it's just that any man whose been in relationships with women know that this is completely false.
"So, yes, there is a problem of inequality between men and women which makes the actions of men against women more atrocious than an identical action of women against men."
Ahhh yes, bringing about equality through inequality. "I WANT TO BE TREATED THE SAME AS A MAN! NOW HOLD THAT DOOR OPEN FOR ME!"
I do agree that historically, women have been given the shaft (figuratively speaking), but breaking the glass ceiling isn't gonna come about by climbing a pile of shackled men.
what is really Striking here is hOw foRward thinking and pRogressive the government is there. whY, don't other countRies follow sUit behiNd the great and powerFul cOuntRy of chIna? i am always amazed aT that.
Except the beatles don't get any money for their music any more. Michael Jackson does.
He own's the rights to the beatles music.
"It seems to me that copyrights are turning from a temporary privilege into an actual property right, despite all indications that only a self-interested minority of our society wants that. So when are copyright holders going to pay property tax on their holdings?"
Damn straight. This whole "democracy" thing would work if it actually listned to the majority of the people instead of the rich people.
"I don't know why you geeks have such a downer on Microsoft for writing buggy software. If it didn't, do you have any idea about how many of you would be out of a job?"
Since this article deals with web developers... are you implying that without Microsofts buggy software, there wouldn't be an internet? There would be no browsers?
If MS wrote quality bug-free software, there would be no internet... I see.
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Dear Lt. Kerrigan,
Make sweet, sweet love to me for days on end.
Yeah, nothing says that you're serious about an issue like getting naked!
Activity.
My friends dad got a varsity letter for library club...
Excellent comments.
First off, I wasn't attempting to knock him/her down. I don't know that who I was talking to was a woman, I assumed they were male from a previous comment they had made.
"Just because your wife can make you do the dishes does not mean that women as a global class are empowered. This is the kind of folsky wisdom that is hilarious when it's in a "Cathy" comic, but when applied to reality, it's a dangerous denial"
I'm not married, and Cathy is a horrible excuse for a comic. I wasn't implying that women don't have a hard time in aspects of todays society and especially in some cultures, but I think society in general has moved forward much faster than some believe. I'm sure that's mostly politics though... squeaky wheel gets the grease and all.
"as many as 95% of domestic violence perpetrators are male"
Great statistic, it shows that many men are short tempered dicks and that too many women stay in abusive relationships. Although, it doesn't account for the men whom are too embarassed to report violence against them, I doubt they would change the figure much... maybe closer to 90%.
"Most women (I would claim the vast majority) would gladly pick 'Not being objectified, cat-called, occasionally terrorized, and generally humiliated based on my gender'"
Again, I say that being thought of sexually isn't objectification. I think of my girlfriend sexually, yet not as an object.
Maybe that's just me and how I was raised, sex is something people do together, not something somebody does on somebody else. Thinking of somebody sexually makes me want to engage in activities with them, not on them.
I think that idea is based on long time standards of male dominance where their satisfaction was key and a womans role was subservient. I think it's safe to say that, for the most part, sex isn't a man acting upon a woman anymore.
"that gets back to the fact that you don't seem to have a very clear understanding of what feminists really want, as opposed to what some random women you know want."
On the contrary, I had the esteemed pleasure to have http://orion.njit.edu/merlin/people/ricki/ as a professor. If you look through her publication list, you'll see she is very focused on the area of gender bias. I think the amount of papers I've read on the issue and discussions give me a good basis on what feminism is about.
You'll find that equity through inequality is a major theme supported by feminism. Much like affirmative action. Where the historically subservient class is given an advantage over the historically ruling class.
My personal opinion is that this method doesn't work. But I have no evidence for or against that.
"I think it bears notice that it is Men in a position of power over Women pretty much the world over."
You must not have had many relationships... Not meant as in insult, it's just that any man whose been in relationships with women know that this is completely false.
"So, yes, there is a problem of inequality between men and women which makes the actions of men against women more atrocious than an identical action of women against men."
Ahhh yes, bringing about equality through inequality. "I WANT TO BE TREATED THE SAME AS A MAN! NOW HOLD THAT DOOR OPEN FOR ME!"
I do agree that historically, women have been given the shaft (figuratively speaking), but breaking the glass ceiling isn't gonna come about by climbing a pile of shackled men.
what is really Striking here is hOw foRward thinking and pRogressive the government is there. whY, don't other countRies follow sUit behiNd the great and powerFul cOuntRy of chIna?
i am always amazed aT that.
Except the beatles don't get any money for their music any more. Michael Jackson does.
He own's the rights to the beatles music.
"It seems to me that copyrights are turning from a temporary privilege into an actual property right, despite all indications that only a self-interested minority of our society wants that. So when are copyright holders going to pay property tax on their holdings?"
Damn straight. This whole "democracy" thing would work if it actually listned to the majority of the people instead of the rich people.
Very true... I guess the world will never know.
Much like the often pondered quandry, "how many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?"
I demand solid figures from the powers that be!
I wonder how RSS plays into this...
slashdot.org is #32, but that doesn't take into account all hits at the subdomains. For example apache.slashdot.org or apple.slashdot.org.
And BBC is #10 now.
I also conceed that I could be very far off in my guess since it is a... ummm... guess.
I check bbc daily also from the US.
Although I don't find much difference from what you get on CNN which I also check daily.
BBC does have more on "football/american soccer" though, not that I care.
I really hate when BBC has a slow news day though. You get 10 of the same article, with the same exact paragraphs just in a different order.
I'd be willing to wager that /. has more than 2 Library of Congress's of bandwidth more usage.
I thought maybe he was talking about licensing. Which I assume would be GPL also right?
Either way I guess it's yes.
Very funny.
"I don't know why you geeks have such a downer on Microsoft for writing buggy software. If it didn't, do you have any idea about how many of you would be out of a job?"
Since this article deals with web developers... are you implying that without Microsofts buggy software, there wouldn't be an internet? There would be no browsers?
If MS wrote quality bug-free software, there would be no internet... I see.
No. But I saw it in a pr0n once...
Congress has just passed legislation permitting the RIAA the use of spike strips and road blocks to curb illegal file sharing.
You can be sure I'll be making those mp3's in advance so I can play them quickly.
Maybe the terrorists are planning to put anthrax in the polar ice caps on mars...
We must beat them there!
OUCH! That's one clear blogosphere smear right here!
ahhh yes... but can your baby run linux?
"...OO.o's...OO.o"
hehehe that's awesome...
I want some ooooo dot O!
I use OO.o at home and it's fine for what I do. Even when I'm forced to switch between office and OO.o it handles it nicely.
First off, I'm sorry for your loss.
Secondly, this sounds similar to when the soldier died and Yahoo wouldn't release access to his email account to the family.
"...and everybody in Australia likes to play with snakes."
I assume you mean when they get tired of riding kangaroos right?
I submit the previous post as exhibit "A" in my case against employment!
We now have hard, scientific evidence that employment leads to lower intelligence.