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The fact that people with an agenda desinged to keep the unbalanced status quo when it comes to men and women, that they love to seize on something post-modernists say and warp it beyond all proportion tells us more about them than what they are criticizing. That gender is 100% cultural is extreme. That it is 0% cultural is extreme. Only imbecilic…[Read more]

Unseen you seem to think that rape is exclusively committed by a male against a female. That is not the case. Any sexual act where one party doesn’t consent is rape. Yes, we live in a time now a days where it is highly recommended you have clear consent from both parties. That is by far the safest route both for the other partner (who for a myriad…[Read more]

Equal opportunity is only possible when HR department heads no longer suffer blatant discriminatory practices or unconscious biases to the point where they are more likely to hire a straight white man than any other even when the other is more qualified. Enough studies have been done to show that when pictures or minority identifying names are…[Read more]

@Simon. This is the case in all studies. What is a shame is that some people specifically try (and to some degree succeed) in discrediting an entire field of study by showcasing the terrible few. I don’t see it happening with fields like history or psychiatry (and there are MORE than enough examples in psychiatry to easily play that game).

If…[Read more]

Unseen, why do intellectual charlatans do and say stupid things? I could ask the same about Jordon Peterson. Or post-modernist philosophers. Or nobel prize winning scientists who become believers in alternative medicine. Because they have an agenda that overrides their ability to use reason and critical thinking. The point is, they represent a…[Read more]

I’ve never read a non-post-modern work by someone in gender studies which denies biological differences. What they argue is that much of it has been blown all out of proportion, especially considering the number of matriarchal societies that have been encountered on multiple continents. Biological differences only need be considered in a very very…[Read more]

Many women don’t do these jobs because they are difficult to get into (the HR staff won’t hire women) and those who do manage to secure those jobs face an extremely toxic working environment (much worse than the men already face) full of sexual harassment, an extremely antagonistic environment, no end to vicious constant sleazy comments,…[Read more]

Simon I love the way you can just dismiss an entire study, of which you know next to nothing and have made no effort to get to know further. From what you’ve said, it’s clear that the extent of your knowledge of gender-studies is parroting the kind of bullshit Jordon Peterson says.

Gender studies is useful in countless ways. For one it studies…[Read more]

The oatmeal has two very good articles on how murderous cats are:

How much cats actually kill

and

Is your cat plotting to kill you

Clinton always came across to most non-Americans as a highly reasonable and qualified candidate and the absolute ferocity of Republican opposition to her seemed to me extremely exaggerated and petty and mostly due to the fact that she was a woman. It was utterly baffling. She was kind of candidate that would have restored a little faith to the…[Read more]

A huge portion of American society are really the ultimate bootlickers of the western world. I don’t know anywhere else that gets such a hard on for abusive authoritarian harsh uniformed alpha males. Despite power hungry overbearing police, systematically abusive prison guards and soldiers ready to kill Iraqis at the slightest provocation…the…[Read more]

And men aren’t attracted to witty, ultra-intelligent, funny women unless they are sexy.

This is the kind of nonsense that holds people back from finding a partner because they assume that because they or a few of their friends have a certain type (or worse express what they say is their type even when it doesn’t accurately represent what they a…[Read more]

I wouldn’t say that gender imbalance “benefits men”, it simply makes things harder for women. I think a lot of men who live difficult lives don’t feel particularly in benefit of the system, it’s simply that they don’t have to climb up as much of a ladder as a lot of women do to reach the same destination. I think phrasing things correctly is…[Read more]

Simon the “all men are evil” trop is mostly a hyper-counter reaction by some men who cannot handle the fact that women are pointing out the high prevalance of sexual harassment, assault, domestic violence and inequality in the work place. Yes, there is a very tiny minority of women who say stupid things like “all men are pigs” but that is…[Read more]

Men’s rights activists are overwealmingly toxic and unpleasant people Simon. If you take individual men who advocate for a specific issue that men face, like say, testicular cancer or father’s rights during divorce proceedings, then yes, I agree, they are ordinary people advocating for an issue they care about. However, and this is important, the…[Read more]

Cancel culture is a fear word that mostly reactionary conservatives have used and promoted to create people using social platforms to call out outright biggotry and discrimination as some sort of boogeyman. It takes a few cases where things are excessive, like someone inadvertently wording things badly and the fall out that comes with it, as being…[Read more]