If you're against any sexism regardless of the target why is it you just spent an entire post trying desperately to derail from discussing the actions of a political/social movement with "you horrible woman-hater you!", emotionally charged assertions, personal attacks, and disproven canards? A group of people literally fighting to keep rape legal and throw half of all domestic violence victims under the bus is hardly the "least-dangerous gender discrimination", nor does having a problem with the political/social movement behind that have anything to do with being "insecure and scared of the menace of women". Likewise the fact half of all domestic violence victims are more likely to be arrested than their abuser is hardly a "small wrinkle".
As for the rest of your canards the wage gap myth has been debunked at least a dozen times and men are a huge majority of the homeless and virtually all workplace deaths, prisoners, and suicides. They're also over 10x as likely to go to jail for the same crime as a woman is (far larger than the difference between whites and blacks) and get far more severe sentencing than women. Meanwhile women are nearly 2/3rds of college graduates and utterly dominating the entire education system. And don't even try to bring up that supposed "STEM gap" which is actually only in one or two majors, one of which is a mere 10% of all degrees conferred.
As for "men" running the world... "men" don't run the world. "Men" are not some fungible borg-like monolith. Your problem is with social and economic class, not with gender.
First off CompSci accounts for about 10% of all degrees conferred, just to put things in perspective. Second women earn nearly 2/3rds of all degrees and either dominate or are near parity in virtually every major other than CompSci and Engineering as well as utterly dominating every single measure we have for the education system.
CompSci, Engineering, IT... all of these fields commonly require people to make great personal sacrifices to pursue them, giving up any semblance of a work/life balance and throwing themselves into their major and career. They also all tend to carry a great social stigma, being dominated by stereotypes of men pathologized for being unattractive or failing to conform to traditional hypermasculine extroverted gender norms.
So you've got three factors at work: The first is that women have time and again been shown to actively prioritize work/life balance and non-monetary compensation such as time off or flexibility because they're allowed to pursue that unlike men. The second is the "eww gross nerds" effect of hostile stereotyping backfiring and making the field appear unattractive. The third is fearmongering by con artists that try to control women through fear and disempowerment.
Women also tell us that people like you are con artists using fear to control women and inflammatory rhetoric to create a moral panic. Why should we listen to you and not them?
Yes clearly the logical conclusion is a massive global conspiracy and it's not simply that the rest of the world is increasingly fed up with idiots obsessed with trivial bullshit (in the words of Aayan Hirsi Ali). Clearly the problem isn't that IT and similar fields are textbook examples of exactly the kind of extreme hours and lack of work/life balance that women are empirically proven to be repelled by time and time again. Clearly it's got nothing to do with the ever more extreme fearmongering and disempowering rhetoric that's created an orwellian culture of fear. Clearly we shouldn't listen to women actually in the field who have repeatedly called bullshit on people like you.
Now control for hours worked, seniority, time off, education, and all other important demographic factors and watch that difference completely disappear.
Think about all the asinine stupidity coming out of tumblr and why you'd never want to hire one of those people. Now imagine someone got duped into doing exactly that and because that person's position let them filter all of your correspondence you never got to find out how badly they were fucking things up with your community.
By the time your shortscreen monitor gets to 1920x1200 my 4:3 will be at 2048x1536 and displaying pages very comfortably side by side WITHOUT needing me to constantly scroll for want of vertical space.
it's about moral ones. If we make a perfectly simulated animal brain and it works just like the real thing does that mean we've made an animal? Do we consider that animal to be alive? Does it have less "worth" than a flesh and blood creature? Better that we answer these questions now than when we have robots asking us if they have a soul.
Just look at how google has consistently fucked up UIs by removing functionality and making things more difficult and less efficient in the name of "design" in their other products. The only good thing I can say is that they're not alone, this is a pretty universal trend of idiocy.
I begrudge widescreen monitors because they're not widescreen, they're shortscreen. A 4:3 of the same diagonal will give you more usable space and more efficiently use your visual field than a 16:9 or 16:10.
It's a combination of this and the cultural offensiveness of the device. Google Glass as it exists is functionally nothing more than wearing a recording device and tiny external screen attached to your head for $1500, wearing one is like walking around very conspicuously pointing a camera at everyone near you all the time. Now compare that with the Eyetap, which has been around for decades at this point. The Eyetap actually processes and enhances your vision in realtime giving you a HUD or displaying information in the world and letting you see outside the normal spectrum.
The simple fact is Google Glass was a huge step backwards.
Go back to redpill... because I'm listening to (and have linked to) multiple feminists including the transgender intersectional feminist that was SO "social justice" they wanted trigger warnings on the Great Gatsby. I don't think you've thought this through very thoroughly.
That's a nice straw man. Very misogynist though, paternalistic towards women and treats them like fragile flowers instead of equal to men who get random trolls sending un-credible threats all the time.
Have you ever noticed they're almost always relatively well off white men and women, and usually hipsters? Oppression is like bling to them, they fetishize it. But because they're often so sheltered and privileged they really have no sense of perspective about anything, so they're perpetually taking even mere disagreement as "harassment" and traumatizing.
The thing is when you've lived through things like people trying to kill you over your race and religion you get a different perspective on things.
I can't get the story of GamerGate straight. And do you know why I can't get GamerGate's story straight? Because GamerGate themself can't get their story straight. GamerGate's story keeps changing every day.
It's been the same since day one, with new information coming to light as things like the GJP mailing list (which even Jimbo Wales himself admits proves gamergate's claims) as investigations produce results. The people BEING investigated for corruption, bribery, blacklisting, and collusion however have been doing everything in their power to try and distract or plaster over that.
Maybe the problem, as I've repeatedly demonstrated, is that you're just incredibly poorly informed to the point of getting even the most basic facts wrong.
I assure you, this is absolutely the first time I've heard anyone from GamerGate even claim that they have addressed corruption around Shadows of Morder... And you are the first person I've met who claims that GamerGaters have addressed this...
This is frankly ridiculous. TotalBiscuit broke the shadows of mordor story and just googling his name shows it filling the news cycle. Literally just googling this shows one of the most prominent public figures supporting gamergate was literally behind breaking the entire scandal. Even mainstream media like Forbes cited TotalBiscuit on this. You literally can't get even this most basic of facts about what happened and when right and yet you continue to insist that you are completely reliably informed about gamergate because some random people, who you have no proof of even existing, totally told you otherwise.
Mcvos do you have any idea how ridiculous it looks for you to keep insisting "But, uh, random people TOTALLY told me otherwise! I'm not making this up I swear!" without any proof at all while I keep citing back to tons of hard evidence?
But maybe they have. Still, they're not giving remotely as much attention to it as they're giving to Depression Quest.
First off they're barely giving any attention to depression quest in the first place, and even then the attention is because Grayson and Depression Quest are both at the heart of the powderkeg of deplorable conduct going back to last year. Deplorable conduct so offensive to basic human decency that it singlehandedly drove the Escapist to overhaul its policies so it would never happen again and publicly apologize for the part they played in stirring up a vicious lynch mob against a community for people at severe risk of self-harm and suicide. Yknow... exactly the people Depression Quest was supposed to be about and help?
Second you're literally asking why gamergate isn't doing journalists' jobs FOR them. That's a self-answering question. Even though gamergate DID provably give significant attention to Shadows of Mordor (getting its own feature on a youtube channel with two million subscribers).
...and yet all the slurs I've seen first-hand, have come from people defending GamerGate.... Everybody I know who has criticized GamerGate (and of all the gamers I know, nobody supports it) is quite the opposite of that....
Again you're insisting "But it's totes real, HONEST!" without any proof in the face of multiple statistical analyses proving 80-90% of gamergate tweets even directed at those they oppose most strongly are neutral to positive and overwhelming evidence documented across twitter itself and dedicated websites contradicting you here. Leigh Alexander, Arthur Chu, Ian Cheong, Ben Kuchera, Devin Faraci, all of the major leading figures in gaming journalism and on the other side have repeatedly publicly condoned doxing and called people everything from pissbabies to members of the KKK... a cruel irony given the deliberate targeting of black men and other minori
So disproving the claim that gamergate is attacking and harassing people isn't disproving the claim that gamergate is attacking and harassing people because you don't know what synonyms are. Gotcha.
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If you're against any sexism regardless of the target why is it you just spent an entire post trying desperately to derail from discussing the actions of a political/social movement with "you horrible woman-hater you!", emotionally charged assertions, personal attacks, and disproven canards? A group of people literally fighting to keep rape legal and throw half of all domestic violence victims under the bus is hardly the "least-dangerous gender discrimination", nor does having a problem with the political/social movement behind that have anything to do with being "insecure and scared of the menace of women". Likewise the fact half of all domestic violence victims are more likely to be arrested than their abuser is hardly a "small wrinkle".
As for the rest of your canards the wage gap myth has been debunked at least a dozen times and men are a huge majority of the homeless and virtually all workplace deaths, prisoners, and suicides. They're also over 10x as likely to go to jail for the same crime as a woman is (far larger than the difference between whites and blacks) and get far more severe sentencing than women. Meanwhile women are nearly 2/3rds of college graduates and utterly dominating the entire education system. And don't even try to bring up that supposed "STEM gap" which is actually only in one or two majors, one of which is a mere 10% of all degrees conferred.
As for "men" running the world... "men" don't run the world. "Men" are not some fungible borg-like monolith. Your problem is with social and economic class, not with gender.
Yes, and torturing people is a war crime. Good luck getting either enforced.
Actually it's about equality.
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The republican party is in the middle of one of the most unprecedented popular vote losing streaks in history. I don't think they care.
First off CompSci accounts for about 10% of all degrees conferred, just to put things in perspective. Second women earn nearly 2/3rds of all degrees and either dominate or are near parity in virtually every major other than CompSci and Engineering as well as utterly dominating every single measure we have for the education system.
CompSci, Engineering, IT... all of these fields commonly require people to make great personal sacrifices to pursue them, giving up any semblance of a work/life balance and throwing themselves into their major and career. They also all tend to carry a great social stigma, being dominated by stereotypes of men pathologized for being unattractive or failing to conform to traditional hypermasculine extroverted gender norms.
So you've got three factors at work: The first is that women have time and again been shown to actively prioritize work/life balance and non-monetary compensation such as time off or flexibility because they're allowed to pursue that unlike men. The second is the "eww gross nerds" effect of hostile stereotyping backfiring and making the field appear unattractive. The third is fearmongering by con artists that try to control women through fear and disempowerment.
Women also tell us that people like you are con artists using fear to control women and inflammatory rhetoric to create a moral panic. Why should we listen to you and not them?
Yes clearly the logical conclusion is a massive global conspiracy and it's not simply that the rest of the world is increasingly fed up with idiots obsessed with trivial bullshit (in the words of Aayan Hirsi Ali). Clearly the problem isn't that IT and similar fields are textbook examples of exactly the kind of extreme hours and lack of work/life balance that women are empirically proven to be repelled by time and time again. Clearly it's got nothing to do with the ever more extreme fearmongering and disempowering rhetoric that's created an orwellian culture of fear. Clearly we shouldn't listen to women actually in the field who have repeatedly called bullshit on people like you.
Now control for hours worked, seniority, time off, education, and all other important demographic factors and watch that difference completely disappear.
Think about all the asinine stupidity coming out of tumblr and why you'd never want to hire one of those people. Now imagine someone got duped into doing exactly that and because that person's position let them filter all of your correspondence you never got to find out how badly they were fucking things up with your community.
The fact that I'm STILL getting less screen space and lower resolutions overall than if I'd had a 4:3.
The last one is pretty much what happened to Mighty Number 9, they lost a lot of money to chargebacks.
Don't forget the newer versions aren't just less functional, they're also larger, slower, and take up more space to do less.
By the time your shortscreen monitor gets to 1920x1200 my 4:3 will be at 2048x1536 and displaying pages very comfortably side by side WITHOUT needing me to constantly scroll for want of vertical space.
it's about moral ones. If we make a perfectly simulated animal brain and it works just like the real thing does that mean we've made an animal? Do we consider that animal to be alive? Does it have less "worth" than a flesh and blood creature? Better that we answer these questions now than when we have robots asking us if they have a soul.
Just look at how google has consistently fucked up UIs by removing functionality and making things more difficult and less efficient in the name of "design" in their other products. The only good thing I can say is that they're not alone, this is a pretty universal trend of idiocy.
I begrudge widescreen monitors because they're not widescreen, they're shortscreen. A 4:3 of the same diagonal will give you more usable space and more efficiently use your visual field than a 16:9 or 16:10.
It's a combination of this and the cultural offensiveness of the device. Google Glass as it exists is functionally nothing more than wearing a recording device and tiny external screen attached to your head for $1500, wearing one is like walking around very conspicuously pointing a camera at everyone near you all the time. Now compare that with the Eyetap, which has been around for decades at this point. The Eyetap actually processes and enhances your vision in realtime giving you a HUD or displaying information in the world and letting you see outside the normal spectrum.
The simple fact is Google Glass was a huge step backwards.
"Outrage Pornography".
Go back to redpill... because I'm listening to (and have linked to) multiple feminists including the transgender intersectional feminist that was SO "social justice" they wanted trigger warnings on the Great Gatsby. I don't think you've thought this through very thoroughly.
That's a nice straw man. Very misogynist though, paternalistic towards women and treats them like fragile flowers instead of equal to men who get random trolls sending un-credible threats all the time.
Have you ever noticed they're almost always relatively well off white men and women, and usually hipsters? Oppression is like bling to them, they fetishize it. But because they're often so sheltered and privileged they really have no sense of perspective about anything, so they're perpetually taking even mere disagreement as "harassment" and traumatizing.
The thing is when you've lived through things like people trying to kill you over your race and religion you get a different perspective on things.
I can't get the story of GamerGate straight. And do you know why I can't get GamerGate's story straight? Because GamerGate themself can't get their story straight. GamerGate's story keeps changing every day.
It's been the same since day one, with new information coming to light as things like the GJP mailing list (which even Jimbo Wales himself admits proves gamergate's claims) as investigations produce results. The people BEING investigated for corruption, bribery, blacklisting, and collusion however have been doing everything in their power to try and distract or plaster over that.
Maybe the problem, as I've repeatedly demonstrated, is that you're just incredibly poorly informed to the point of getting even the most basic facts wrong.
I assure you, this is absolutely the first time I've heard anyone from GamerGate even claim that they have addressed corruption around Shadows of Morder... And you are the first person I've met who claims that GamerGaters have addressed this...
This is frankly ridiculous. TotalBiscuit broke the shadows of mordor story and just googling his name shows it filling the news cycle. Literally just googling this shows one of the most prominent public figures supporting gamergate was literally behind breaking the entire scandal. Even mainstream media like Forbes cited TotalBiscuit on this. You literally can't get even this most basic of facts about what happened and when right and yet you continue to insist that you are completely reliably informed about gamergate because some random people, who you have no proof of even existing, totally told you otherwise.
Mcvos do you have any idea how ridiculous it looks for you to keep insisting "But, uh, random people TOTALLY told me otherwise! I'm not making this up I swear!" without any proof at all while I keep citing back to tons of hard evidence?
But maybe they have. Still, they're not giving remotely as much attention to it as they're giving to Depression Quest.
First off they're barely giving any attention to depression quest in the first place, and even then the attention is because Grayson and Depression Quest are both at the heart of the powderkeg of deplorable conduct going back to last year. Deplorable conduct so offensive to basic human decency that it singlehandedly drove the Escapist to overhaul its policies so it would never happen again and publicly apologize for the part they played in stirring up a vicious lynch mob against a community for people at severe risk of self-harm and suicide. Yknow... exactly the people Depression Quest was supposed to be about and help?
Second you're literally asking why gamergate isn't doing journalists' jobs FOR them. That's a self-answering question. Even though gamergate DID provably give significant attention to Shadows of Mordor (getting its own feature on a youtube channel with two million subscribers).
...and yet all the slurs I've seen first-hand, have come from people defending GamerGate.... Everybody I know who has criticized GamerGate (and of all the gamers I know, nobody supports it) is quite the opposite of that....
Again you're insisting "But it's totes real, HONEST!" without any proof in the face of multiple statistical analyses proving 80-90% of gamergate tweets even directed at those they oppose most strongly are neutral to positive and overwhelming evidence documented across twitter itself and dedicated websites contradicting you here. Leigh Alexander, Arthur Chu, Ian Cheong, Ben Kuchera, Devin Faraci, all of the major leading figures in gaming journalism and on the other side have repeatedly publicly condoned doxing and called people everything from pissbabies to members of the KKK... a cruel irony given the deliberate targeting of black men and other minori
Learn to use a dictionary.
So disproving the claim that gamergate is attacking and harassing people isn't disproving the claim that gamergate is attacking and harassing people because you don't know what synonyms are. Gotcha.
So what you're saying is gaslighting and emotional abuse aren't domestic abuse? I'm just going by feminist standards here.