That was my first thought as well. Except for apple's treadmill tablets have hit a point where they're "good enough" for whatever most people use them for and they're only going to get replaced when that finally changes.
Did you seriously just ask if I read people literally saying "Boys are penalized unless they behave like girls" as measuring a gender based prejudice?
The data show, for the first time, that gender disparities in teacher grades start early and uniformly favor girls. In every subject area, boys are represented in grade distributions below where their test scores would predict.
Since there used to be more women in CS there must be some explanation for the decline, and women tell us it's because of various factors putting them off. We can address those things, while not ignoring the other problems, so I don't see why you are getting your knickers in a twist so badly.
We can, but we're NOT. What we're doing is actively harming and excluding boys. That's literally what this entire submission is about, a school refusing to submit to feminist demands and policies that actively harm and exclude and already extremely at-risk group of students.
Only on Slashdot does the "because of problem A we must ignore problem B" logic seem to fly. Only on Slashdot do people expect everyone to address what they perceive as the biggest problem to the exclusion of all others, and berate them for even trying to fix the other issues.
You're projecting animojo, that's how feminists react whenever someone brings up men being half of all rape and domestic violence victims when you stop using Mary Koss' rigged-to-exclude-men definition of the term "rape".
A domestic abuser that lied to start a vicious bullying campaign against a suicide support forum and has been caught red handed retweeting offers from the GNAA to pay up to $20 for fake tweets "threatening" her, a mentally unstable pathological liar who publicly admitted to running fake accounts and has been proven to have been lying about leaving her home, and xbox-live where research such as PEW's has proven MEN face significantly more, more violent, and more severe harassment.
Those are your three examples. And you use them to support the misogynist argument that women are weak and need special treatment because they can't handle the same or even anywhere near the level of trolling and harassment men face on a constant basis.
OR maybe it's got more to do with the fact that CS is a mere 10% of all degrees conferred, is essentially a dying field, and the combination of demonizing and pathologizing nerds along with fearmongering like yours is what's keeping women away.
Women are within 5% of parity in Math, Statistics, and the Physical Sciences three years ago. They're nearly SIXTY PERCENT of all biology graduates and at least that many if not a full 2/3rds or more of fucking EVERYTHING else.
The only one changing the subject here is you and the other shameless FUD spreaders trying to wave a red herring like CompSci that's only 10% of conferred degrees. You're a bunch of mendacious dissemblers screaming "pay no attention to literally every measure of academic success and every other degree out there, look only at our dishonest cherry picked outliers!".
It is an indisputable fact that women absolutely DOMINATE every aspect of the US education system from start to finish and top to bottom. There is no disparity anywhere in the education system which FAVORS men, only disparities ranging from profound to catastrophic which harm them, and it's disgusting that this is still not enough for people like you. It's not fucking derailing to point this out on a news story specifically about boys being openly thrown to the wolves.
And in one post you demonstrate exactly the problem. Even when we're talking about men getting utterly fucked AND blamed for it at the same time women are the real victims.
Here's a thought experiment: Disprove an accusation of "objectification". You can't, because it's no different than "you're a witch" or "you're a communist".
CS is 10% or less of conferred degrees, thank you for demonstrating exactly the kind of mendacious red herring people rely on to derail from the facts though.
Nerd culture isn't remotely plagued by sexism, it's one of the least sexist cultures out there. That's nothing more than the latest straw man in a long line of straw man invented by bullies to justify shitting all over nerds as the root of all evil. A hundred years ago pinball made people alcoholics and gamblers, thirty years ago D&D made people worship satan and molest children, ten years ago videogames made people violent, and today it's the misogyny-apocalypse on the internet.
Meanwhile actual female nerds say the opposite, and are promptly called "house ni**ers" and doxed by the latest round of hipsters who've found a new target for their bullying and mendacious handwringing.
they really should be reversing most of those programs. Girls are utterly dominating every aspect of education, including almost all STEM fields, to the point of being nearly 2/3rds of college graduates. At this point they're not "helping" girls, they're blatantly doing nothing more than sabotaging boys even further.
Advances in renewables, particularly PV, are what will lead to electric cars going mainstream eventually. When you get to the point that someone's solar panels can cover their entire house's electrical consumption AND charge their car every night there's no more room for argument.
You can "hold" a knife by the blade by barely touching the edge too, the same for a broken piece of glass. No reasonable person would consider that a substantive reliable grip however.
Why are you bashing something for being different? None of your complaints are even valid, 2/3 disprovable with simple searches.
Translation "I actually couldn't even make up a dishoenst response to this one like I did the other 2 so I'm going to bluff and hope nobody actually clicks those links and thinks critically about what they're seeing". Different does not mean good.
For inventing a phone that's not only even easier to crack the screen on than a regular smartphone but also can't be held on both sides AND can't use a protective case.
1. Yes, sometimes words are used by people to mean different things. This is generally called "semantics" and is a tactic very popular among the more social justice inclined, who often redefine words sometimes even on the fly to make their arguments unfalsifiable or otherwise justify their actions. For most of the world we have a dictionary and if you're using a word to mean something outside it's standard meaning it's YOUR job to clarify your meaning, not everyone else's to telepathically divine it.
You didn't "define a missing actor", you tried to claim that even the alternative interpretation I proposed was proof of feminism's Patriarchy theory. Your exact words were "that seems like a tremendous win for the patriarchy". Patriarchy as a theory boils down to the assertion that men are privileged and women are oppressed. Your argument was that evidence of the opposite STILL supports patriarchy... Because. Just because. Because you say it does. The problem is that makes Patriarchy theory unfalsifiable, it makes literally every single possible thing that could ever happen something which supports the existence of a Patriarchy. It means that no matter what we will never NOT live in a Patriarchy because even men getting screwed is still Patriarchy.
That's just as logically invalid as saying "Heads I win, Tails you lose".
2. Again they're criticising Karl Popper's organized philosophical school of Falsificationism, not the very core of basic logical validity itself that states something must be disprovable in the first place, aka the principle of falsifiability... as in the ability to BE falsified at ALL.
Falsfiability, as in disprovability, IS the end of all arguments. If something can't ever be disproven it is inherently not a valid proposition. "God did it" is not a valid logical or scientific theory, it's a religious assertion. "I'm right because I say I'm right" is not a valid argument because it is circular. "Patriarchy is the system which privileges men and oppresses women... but when men are oppressed and women privileged that's patriarchy too" is not valid.
3. This is pure speciousness, you're making personal commentary (and insults) about me to try and deflect from your failure of even basic logical validity.
4a. Requiring that things NOT be completely undisprovable circular bunk is not a "ridiculous standard of logical completeness", it's the very foundation of basic rational thought and logic.
4b. I am not attributing everything to some "unnamed ugly, self-sustaining, omnipotent invisible force". That's feminism's Patriarchy theory you're thinking of. Yknow, that thing you cited in your very first post and which I pointed out is a logically invalid theory.
bonus round: The only people who don't want things to change are people who adhere to Patriarchy theory, that's why it's unfalsifiable in the first place. If everything is always patriarchy then they always have an excuse to claim victimhood and oppression and then use that "Victim Cred" as a rhetorical and social weapon against others. That is the very core of social justice tactics.
I said falsifiability, not falsificationism. Since you apparently don't even know the difference allow me to explain it in words of two syllables or less: Any theory you can't disprove is not a valid theory. You can't make a claim that can never be wrong and say it's valid logic.
Get it now? If I flip a coin and say "heads I win, tails you lose" that's not valid. If you make a theory that can never be wrong because it claims every outcome supports it your theory is not valid.
Funny that it's feminists who most viciously gender-police nerds and non-conforming males, as with the "neckbeard" slur and accompanying straw man/caricature that's been escalated to practically minstrel levels of absurdity.
The traits that lead to success in tech aren't masculine traits, they're non-SJW traits of resilience, internal locus of control, tolerance, and personal responsibility. It's traits that lead to someone being a hard worker who accepts and even relishes in adversity and views their failures or difficulties as a sign they need to work harder rather than externalizing them on an unfalsifiable and often circular conspiracy theory.
What part of "unfalsifiable" did you not understand? The problem is that you are trying to claim something whose definition is "men are privileged" is harming and oppressing men. That doesn't work because that makes your theory unfalsifiable.
Because you can't have an unfalsifiable theory. The way your claim works everything is patriarchy no matter what it is, even if it hurts men, therefore nothing will ever NOT be patriarchy.
Step 1: Stigmatize the traits that lead people to excel in tech fields, men posessing those traits, and anyone in tech Step 2: Watch as that stigmatization isolates and ostracizes people in tech as "nerds" "dweebs" "dorks" "losers" and so on Step 3: "WHY AREN'T THERE MORE WOMEN IN TECH?!!!!"
Tech fields aren't some fortress designed to keep women out, they're a ghetto that unattractive or non-conforming men were shoved into. That's why the "neckbeard" stereotype is pushed so hard these days, nobody wants to give up bullying these people but they need to find some way to JUSTIFY it that also covers for the fact that bullying is exactly why the gender gap exists in the first place. So they invent this massive straw misogynist "neckbeard" caricature and start pushing it everywhere. Now it's not just that nerds are losers, it's that they're misogynist losers and that's why it's totally ok to bully them because it's all their fault anyway.
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That was my first thought as well. Except for apple's treadmill tablets have hit a point where they're "good enough" for whatever most people use them for and they're only going to get replaced when that finally changes.
Did you seriously just ask if I read people literally saying "Boys are penalized unless they behave like girls" as measuring a gender based prejudice?
The data show, for the first time, that gender disparities in teacher grades start early and uniformly favor girls. In every subject area, boys are represented in grade distributions below where their test scores would predict.
And the entire rest of the article goes on to explain how that's a gender based prejudice.
Since there used to be more women in CS there must be some explanation for the decline, and women tell us it's because of various factors putting them off. We can address those things, while not ignoring the other problems, so I don't see why you are getting your knickers in a twist so badly.
We can, but we're NOT. What we're doing is actively harming and excluding boys. That's literally what this entire submission is about, a school refusing to submit to feminist demands and policies that actively harm and exclude and already extremely at-risk group of students.
Only on Slashdot does the "because of problem A we must ignore problem B" logic seem to fly. Only on Slashdot do people expect everyone to address what they perceive as the biggest problem to the exclusion of all others, and berate them for even trying to fix the other issues.
You're projecting animojo, that's how feminists react whenever someone brings up men being half of all rape and domestic violence victims when you stop using Mary Koss' rigged-to-exclude-men definition of the term "rape".
A domestic abuser that lied to start a vicious bullying campaign against a suicide support forum and has been caught red handed retweeting offers from the GNAA to pay up to $20 for fake tweets "threatening" her, a mentally unstable pathological liar who publicly admitted to running fake accounts and has been proven to have been lying about leaving her home, and xbox-live where research such as PEW's has proven MEN face significantly more, more violent, and more severe harassment.
Those are your three examples. And you use them to support the misogynist argument that women are weak and need special treatment because they can't handle the same or even anywhere near the level of trolling and harassment men face on a constant basis.
OR maybe it's got more to do with the fact that CS is a mere 10% of all degrees conferred, is essentially a dying field, and the combination of demonizing and pathologizing nerds along with fearmongering like yours is what's keeping women away.
FTFY: http://www.randalolson.com/201...
Women are within 5% of parity in Math, Statistics, and the Physical Sciences three years ago. They're nearly SIXTY PERCENT of all biology graduates and at least that many if not a full 2/3rds or more of fucking EVERYTHING else.
The only one changing the subject here is you and the other shameless FUD spreaders trying to wave a red herring like CompSci that's only 10% of conferred degrees. You're a bunch of mendacious dissemblers screaming "pay no attention to literally every measure of academic success and every other degree out there, look only at our dishonest cherry picked outliers!".
It is an indisputable fact that women absolutely DOMINATE every aspect of the US education system from start to finish and top to bottom. There is no disparity anywhere in the education system which FAVORS men, only disparities ranging from profound to catastrophic which harm them, and it's disgusting that this is still not enough for people like you. It's not fucking derailing to point this out on a news story specifically about boys being openly thrown to the wolves.
And in one post you demonstrate exactly the problem. Even when we're talking about men getting utterly fucked AND blamed for it at the same time women are the real victims.
Here's a thought experiment: Disprove an accusation of "objectification". You can't, because it's no different than "you're a witch" or "you're a communist".
CS is 10% or less of conferred degrees, thank you for demonstrating exactly the kind of mendacious red herring people rely on to derail from the facts though.
No, it's definitely teachers actively screwing boys. They're literally being graded worse just for being boys.
Nerd culture isn't remotely plagued by sexism, it's one of the least sexist cultures out there. That's nothing more than the latest straw man in a long line of straw man invented by bullies to justify shitting all over nerds as the root of all evil. A hundred years ago pinball made people alcoholics and gamblers, thirty years ago D&D made people worship satan and molest children, ten years ago videogames made people violent, and today it's the misogyny-apocalypse on the internet.
Meanwhile actual female nerds say the opposite, and are promptly called "house ni**ers" and doxed by the latest round of hipsters who've found a new target for their bullying and mendacious handwringing.
they really should be reversing most of those programs. Girls are utterly dominating every aspect of education, including almost all STEM fields, to the point of being nearly 2/3rds of college graduates. At this point they're not "helping" girls, they're blatantly doing nothing more than sabotaging boys even further.
Advances in renewables, particularly PV, are what will lead to electric cars going mainstream eventually. When you get to the point that someone's solar panels can cover their entire house's electrical consumption AND charge their car every night there's no more room for argument.
A ziplock, really?
lots of cases [google.co.nz]
Which aren't protective cases like otterbox...except the one that is an otterbox, but is a different phone
http://cdn01.androidauthority.... [androidauthority.net]
You can "hold" a knife by the blade by barely touching the edge too, the same for a broken piece of glass. No reasonable person would consider that a substantive reliable grip however.
Why are you bashing something for being different? None of your complaints are even valid, 2/3 disprovable with simple searches.
Translation "I actually couldn't even make up a dishoenst response to this one like I did the other 2 so I'm going to bluff and hope nobody actually clicks those links and thinks critically about what they're seeing". Different does not mean good.
Or, as PC gamers have known since the Quake era, you render the game at 60fps or higher and the human eye will blur moving things entirely on its own.
For inventing a phone that's not only even easier to crack the screen on than a regular smartphone but also can't be held on both sides AND can't use a protective case.
1. Yes, sometimes words are used by people to mean different things. This is generally called "semantics" and is a tactic very popular among the more social justice inclined, who often redefine words sometimes even on the fly to make their arguments unfalsifiable or otherwise justify their actions. For most of the world we have a dictionary and if you're using a word to mean something outside it's standard meaning it's YOUR job to clarify your meaning, not everyone else's to telepathically divine it.
You didn't "define a missing actor", you tried to claim that even the alternative interpretation I proposed was proof of feminism's Patriarchy theory. Your exact words were "that seems like a tremendous win for the patriarchy". Patriarchy as a theory boils down to the assertion that men are privileged and women are oppressed. Your argument was that evidence of the opposite STILL supports patriarchy... Because. Just because. Because you say it does. The problem is that makes Patriarchy theory unfalsifiable, it makes literally every single possible thing that could ever happen something which supports the existence of a Patriarchy. It means that no matter what we will never NOT live in a Patriarchy because even men getting screwed is still Patriarchy.
That's just as logically invalid as saying "Heads I win, Tails you lose".
2. Again they're criticising Karl Popper's organized philosophical school of Falsificationism, not the very core of basic logical validity itself that states something must be disprovable in the first place, aka the principle of falsifiability... as in the ability to BE falsified at ALL.
Falsfiability, as in disprovability, IS the end of all arguments. If something can't ever be disproven it is inherently not a valid proposition. "God did it" is not a valid logical or scientific theory, it's a religious assertion. "I'm right because I say I'm right" is not a valid argument because it is circular. "Patriarchy is the system which privileges men and oppresses women... but when men are oppressed and women privileged that's patriarchy too" is not valid.
3. This is pure speciousness, you're making personal commentary (and insults) about me to try and deflect from your failure of even basic logical validity.
4a. Requiring that things NOT be completely undisprovable circular bunk is not a "ridiculous standard of logical completeness", it's the very foundation of basic rational thought and logic.
4b. I am not attributing everything to some "unnamed ugly, self-sustaining, omnipotent invisible force". That's feminism's Patriarchy theory you're thinking of. Yknow, that thing you cited in your very first post and which I pointed out is a logically invalid theory.
bonus round: The only people who don't want things to change are people who adhere to Patriarchy theory, that's why it's unfalsifiable in the first place. If everything is always patriarchy then they always have an excuse to claim victimhood and oppression and then use that "Victim Cred" as a rhetorical and social weapon against others. That is the very core of social justice tactics.
I said falsifiability, not falsificationism. Since you apparently don't even know the difference allow me to explain it in words of two syllables or less: Any theory you can't disprove is not a valid theory. You can't make a claim that can never be wrong and say it's valid logic.
Get it now? If I flip a coin and say "heads I win, tails you lose" that's not valid. If you make a theory that can never be wrong because it claims every outcome supports it your theory is not valid.
Funny that it's feminists who most viciously gender-police nerds and non-conforming males, as with the "neckbeard" slur and accompanying straw man/caricature that's been escalated to practically minstrel levels of absurdity.
The traits that lead to success in tech aren't masculine traits, they're non-SJW traits of resilience, internal locus of control, tolerance, and personal responsibility. It's traits that lead to someone being a hard worker who accepts and even relishes in adversity and views their failures or difficulties as a sign they need to work harder rather than externalizing them on an unfalsifiable and often circular conspiracy theory.
What part of "unfalsifiable" did you not understand? The problem is that you are trying to claim something whose definition is "men are privileged" is harming and oppressing men. That doesn't work because that makes your theory unfalsifiable.
Because you can't have an unfalsifiable theory. The way your claim works everything is patriarchy no matter what it is, even if it hurts men, therefore nothing will ever NOT be patriarchy.
Step 1: Stigmatize the traits that lead people to excel in tech fields, men posessing those traits, and anyone in tech
Step 2: Watch as that stigmatization isolates and ostracizes people in tech as "nerds" "dweebs" "dorks" "losers" and so on
Step 3: "WHY AREN'T THERE MORE WOMEN IN TECH?!!!!"
Tech fields aren't some fortress designed to keep women out, they're a ghetto that unattractive or non-conforming men were shoved into. That's why the "neckbeard" stereotype is pushed so hard these days, nobody wants to give up bullying these people but they need to find some way to JUSTIFY it that also covers for the fact that bullying is exactly why the gender gap exists in the first place. So they invent this massive straw misogynist "neckbeard" caricature and start pushing it everywhere. Now it's not just that nerds are losers, it's that they're misogynist losers and that's why it's totally ok to bully them because it's all their fault anyway.
Maybe they figured cannonball guy and the guy with the cannon were in cahoots.
They do sometimes but generally alligators tend to eat (stupid) tourists.