But I'm sure you meant that what they we want is some kinda imagined matriarchy, where special rights are reserved for one half the population. Which is dumb. And while people with all sorts of self-labels say all sorts of dumb things, it is not a suggestion made by anywhere near a large percentage of feminists.
To clarify, in this case they claim that netflix doesn't do enough to encourage the production and consumption of Canadian entertainment, a requirement they place on other distributors.
So they're, in theory, doing exactly what you say, just in less harsh terms. They want to ensure the continued interest of Canadian producers, and not American.
And they're using arbitrary leverage like demanding subscriber lists to push netflix to obey. It's not neat or nice. But they're kinda being upfront that it's just leverage not genuine interest in the records.
China more or less manages that, only they still allow limited access to the outside. You'd be surprised what an entire nation can do, if it puts it mind to it.
And so you use that strawman, in response to me saying people like you strawman, and you cite no evidence it's real.
Good fucking job.
You can impugn my character all you want. Calling out people who are perpetuating lies on the internet is seen as perfectly reasonable in other discussions, but so you random ACs will bring the wrath of god if you ever dare to call misogynistic shitfucks on it.
It's flamebait to imply anything other than feminism is evil and actively attacking poor helpless men. Sorry you didn't know that. It antagonizes the misogynists.
I don't get why they're so sensitive about it, but just a puff of genuine concern for gender equality(and the rather large body of evidence surrounding it) is seen as an attack.
I don't actually understand the motivations of the mods, but I've come to expect that hypersensitive behavior, regardless of my own understanding. Actual thought out replies to the concerns are missing for me to fill in the gaps.
Oh yeah, you sound totally informed about whatever thing you're talking about. Not like you're talking out your ass at all. Yep, just some feminazi. No particular person, that'd make you accountable for your claim.
What really gets me is how slashdot eats up shit like this, and only when it comes to feminism.
It is true that women are more likely to report sexual assault(these days) than men. But the differences aren't tremendously dramatic. Google scholar is being awful and not helping me find the study, but I seem to recall it was in the neighborhood of 30% for women and more like 20% for men.
That's a dramatic enough difference to be quite concerned about how we treat male sexuality, but not so much as to cover the differences seen here.
And that's a recurring problem in these discussions. That the sexists will imagine a strawman version of the methodology in order to dismiss it. Strawmanning these kinds of concerns is one of two tools in their toolbox. The other is "ignore this, there's [other vaguely comparable problem] so it's balanced" as if the correct thing to do isn't addressing both issues.
Well, the real truth is that some of the best predictors of adult success, as far as parenting practices are concerned, is simply time spent together in infancy and early childhood.
Those other things are almost all certainly good ideas, but it mostly comes down to parental engagement.
(sufficiently disengaged parents are thought to be one of the primary causes of psychopathy)
It helps if you don't live in some sprawled out suburban hellscape devoid of both nature and culture, like the kinds of places people who think minecraft is good for kids think is good for raising kids.
Hell, I just did some newly published online "training" for my giant employer, and they made direct reference to their second life island in the AD 20 fucking 14.
Uh, yes, it's totally creative. It doesn't actively encourage creativity, but it still lets you make things, and you absolutely see children making "roller coasters" or interesting architecture, or sometimes even some light pixel art.
It's like calling legos "not creative" because you can use your imagination with action figures too. It's not radically creative, but it's a little more creative than most games.
Creativity is one important skill children need to develop. I think this kind of effusive praise willfully ignores that sometimes these activities can and do take the place of other important childhood activities in some cases.
And that brings me to how I kind of lament the lack of textual information in modern games. I learned a rather large amount of reading(and vocabulary) skills by trying to understand what games were saying as a child.
The universality of voice acting harms how much children can develop by reading.
Way back in the now closed Sarkeesian thread, you made the claim that she made up the threats and that there was no police report.
Since this has now been proven to be a factually incorrect statement... I want to know if being objectively wrong about Sarkeesian causes you to reevaluate your views. Or whether you'll just drift over to a new excuse.
It almost seems like an accident, though. They need to move to HTML5 because Microsoft supports its technologies like high school students support their relationships.
It's just a coincidence that HTML5 also broadens deployment targets a little.
They'll go back to DRM because they can make it so they have the only music store on many peoples' phones and tablets. No choice in vendor, helping insure they get their music from apple, then no choice in players so they must buy apple devices to listen to iTunes music. It's not a cornered market, but purposeful vendor lock-in isn't exactly unheard of.
I have no idea where you might live where there is no only one, but multiple, local hardware stores. I remember when the last non-Bigbox hardware store in the county I grew up in vanished.
If I have a problem with US intelligence organizations(and I do), it's that their mission transformed from being pragmatic and getting useful, accurate assessments to military and law enforcement branches in the US to being paranoid about the theoretical possible threats that might exist to US interests in some way shape or form.
That paranoia fuels some of the worst excesses, like universal monitoring, or toppling democracies that might potentially ally with other nations.
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Oh, I'm sorry, that's a completely different area where you're objectively wrong, for different reasons.
But good job on making the connection.
You're right; feminists don't in general, push for only that, because legalistic bias isn't the only kind that's harming people. You can see object evidence of how systemic bias hurts women Or objective evidence that certain kinds of cultural media measurably cause those biases. Standing against that, in spite of having nothing to do with the law, is morally justified, and even necessary.
But I'm sure you meant that what they we want is some kinda imagined matriarchy, where special rights are reserved for one half the population. Which is dumb. And while people with all sorts of self-labels say all sorts of dumb things, it is not a suggestion made by anywhere near a large percentage of feminists.
To clarify, in this case they claim that netflix doesn't do enough to encourage the production and consumption of Canadian entertainment, a requirement they place on other distributors.
So they're, in theory, doing exactly what you say, just in less harsh terms. They want to ensure the continued interest of Canadian producers, and not American.
And they're using arbitrary leverage like demanding subscriber lists to push netflix to obey. It's not neat or nice. But they're kinda being upfront that it's just leverage not genuine interest in the records.
China more or less manages that, only they still allow limited access to the outside. You'd be surprised what an entire nation can do, if it puts it mind to it.
And so you use that strawman, in response to me saying people like you strawman, and you cite no evidence it's real.
Good fucking job.
You can impugn my character all you want. Calling out people who are perpetuating lies on the internet is seen as perfectly reasonable in other discussions, but so you random ACs will bring the wrath of god if you ever dare to call misogynistic shitfucks on it.
No, we clearly saw the OP redefine the terms, and the first reply chastise the liar.
You can make up a narrative like that for yourself, if you wish, but I was clearly correct in this particular case.
So, shut up.
It's flamebait to imply anything other than feminism is evil and actively attacking poor helpless men. Sorry you didn't know that. It antagonizes the misogynists.
I don't get why they're so sensitive about it, but just a puff of genuine concern for gender equality(and the rather large body of evidence surrounding it) is seen as an attack.
I don't actually understand the motivations of the mods, but I've come to expect that hypersensitive behavior, regardless of my own understanding. Actual thought out replies to the concerns are missing for me to fill in the gaps.
"There was some feminazi that went on a tear"
"It was all a load of mindless victimology."
Oh yeah, you sound totally informed about whatever thing you're talking about. Not like you're talking out your ass at all. Yep, just some feminazi. No particular person, that'd make you accountable for your claim.
What really gets me is how slashdot eats up shit like this, and only when it comes to feminism.
It is true that women are more likely to report sexual assault(these days) than men. But the differences aren't tremendously dramatic. Google scholar is being awful and not helping me find the study, but I seem to recall it was in the neighborhood of 30% for women and more like 20% for men.
That's a dramatic enough difference to be quite concerned about how we treat male sexuality, but not so much as to cover the differences seen here.
And that's a recurring problem in these discussions. That the sexists will imagine a strawman version of the methodology in order to dismiss it. Strawmanning these kinds of concerns is one of two tools in their toolbox. The other is "ignore this, there's [other vaguely comparable problem] so it's balanced" as if the correct thing to do isn't addressing both issues.
No, it's the fucking denialism makes you guilty.
"Oh they must be mismeasuring, because the results challenge my assumptions!" is not a hallmark of rationalism.
Well, the real truth is that some of the best predictors of adult success, as far as parenting practices are concerned, is simply time spent together in infancy and early childhood.
Those other things are almost all certainly good ideas, but it mostly comes down to parental engagement.
(sufficiently disengaged parents are thought to be one of the primary causes of psychopathy)
It helps if you don't live in some sprawled out suburban hellscape devoid of both nature and culture, like the kinds of places people who think minecraft is good for kids think is good for raising kids.
Hell, I just did some newly published online "training" for my giant employer, and they made direct reference to their second life island in the AD 20 fucking 14.
Uh, yes, it's totally creative. It doesn't actively encourage creativity, but it still lets you make things, and you absolutely see children making "roller coasters" or interesting architecture, or sometimes even some light pixel art.
It's like calling legos "not creative" because you can use your imagination with action figures too. It's not radically creative, but it's a little more creative than most games.
Creativity is one important skill children need to develop. I think this kind of effusive praise willfully ignores that sometimes these activities can and do take the place of other important childhood activities in some cases.
And that brings me to how I kind of lament the lack of textual information in modern games. I learned a rather large amount of reading(and vocabulary) skills by trying to understand what games were saying as a child.
The universality of voice acting harms how much children can develop by reading.
Way back in the now closed Sarkeesian thread, you made the claim that she made up the threats and that there was no police report.
Since this has now been proven to be a factually incorrect statement... I want to know if being objectively wrong about Sarkeesian causes you to reevaluate your views. Or whether you'll just drift over to a new excuse.
It almost seems like an accident, though. They need to move to HTML5 because Microsoft supports its technologies like high school students support their relationships.
It's just a coincidence that HTML5 also broadens deployment targets a little.
They'll go back to DRM because they can make it so they have the only music store on many peoples' phones and tablets. No choice in vendor, helping insure they get their music from apple, then no choice in players so they must buy apple devices to listen to iTunes music. It's not a cornered market, but purposeful vendor lock-in isn't exactly unheard of.
I have no idea where you might live where there is no only one, but multiple, local hardware stores. I remember when the last non-Bigbox hardware store in the county I grew up in vanished.
And I don't even like tools.
Well, considering the two of them ran all the small local hardware stores out of business, enjoy shopping at Lowes, instead.
Some people associate autodiadicism with overconfidence that proper education doesn't cause to same degree.
If I have a problem with US intelligence organizations(and I do), it's that their mission transformed from being pragmatic and getting useful, accurate assessments to military and law enforcement branches in the US to being paranoid about the theoretical possible threats that might exist to US interests in some way shape or form.
That paranoia fuels some of the worst excesses, like universal monitoring, or toppling democracies that might potentially ally with other nations.
Okay, and that'd be perfectly reasonable, if there was any way I was supposed to understand that source for the figures.
To put it another way, how was I supposed to know it wasn't armchair in the context of information available in this thread?
Flickr already missed the boat on being the social media image sharping app of choice.
So now they're missing the next boat by trying to be that instead. It's like the microsoft infinite loop, but now yahoo instead.