Simon Paynton

Unseen wrote:
I’m not sure that’s true. It sounds like something someone who wants it to be true might say.

I think it’s somewhat true.  A happy worker is also more committed to the organisation.

There has to be a balance or trade-off between the demands of employment versus workers’ convenience and enjoyment.

Unseen wrote:
unless both considerations coincide.

Quite often, they do.  A happy and healthy worker is a productive worker.

Davis wrote:
it’s a Marsist analysis of how capitalism works, basically.

It may be, but it’s not necessarily a full and accurate picture.

Employers need to invest in their resources.

What gives a business a duty to help an employee raise children? As just stated, a business exists to benefit the owners. The purpose of of employees is to help them.

Employers depend on employees being in good shape, in which case they can get more use out of them.

It seems that there are a number of reasons why women get paid less on average than men, for example:

• actual negative discrimination.
• women tend to shoulder the bulk of child care responsibilities.
• women tend to work in lower-paid jobs like the caring professions.
• statistically, women are higher in “agreeableness” and therefore find it…

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@davis – that sounds like about the size of it.  The backlash is real.  Why stop, just because there is a backlash?

https://dplore.fandom.com/wiki/Third-Wave_Feminism

This sounds like a bunch of hysterical nonsense.  Yes, there have been abuses and excesses.  That’s to be expected in any liberation struggle.  Some people do have too much time on t…[Read more]

“Misandry”, lol  https://imgur.com/gallery/JeC5Glr

Why are you comparing 3rd-wave feminism to a religion?  It sounds like a cheap put-down – “they blindly believe in bullshit”.

@davis – there’s this:

I would have thought that a gender studies degree counts against the person who holds it, considering the terrible reputation the subject has, in serious academic circles.

I count myself as a feminist, apparently this isn’t allowed by some activists, but I don’t care.  For me it’s about empowering women and liberating men, rather than victimhood and self-hate.

_Robert_ wrote:
I am not ready to give up the presumption of innocence.

I have a presumption of “I don’t know”.  But when there are multiple accusers, all giving the same modus operandi, then the guy is in trouble.

I think all this really makes the men look worse than the women.  Of course there are going to be a few malicious accusations.  An…[Read more]

There are excesses in feminism, and where there are weaknesses in a system, unscrupulous or malicious or power-crazy people will exploit them.  This doesn’t invalidate the general feminist message.

I don’t want to be offensive, but do I detect some misogyny in the air?  Women aren’t as stupid and greedy as people are making out.  Or if they are, only to a similar degree to men.

Simon Paynton wrote:
Maybe the gender theoreticians don’t want to justify traditional gender roles and traits by saying that anything is innate.

I think we can compare the situation to race.  We don’t say that there might be innate differences between races, because in white majority countries, black people tend not to do as well as white pe…[Read more]

If Camille Paglia is right, and, shall we say, many gender theoreticians maintain that gender traits are 100% culturally constructed – maybe it is because traditional gender roles are oppressive, especially to females.  Maybe the gender theoreticians don’t want to justify traditional gender roles and traits by saying that anything is innate.

Unseen wrote:
it is absolutely poisonous to SHOWCASE them, and as Jordon Peterson does and a large number of alt-right and ultra-conservative and anti-feminist people do,

But this is a special kind of nonsense, unique on its own (claiming that gender is 100% culturally constructed).  So that’s why it is highlighted and showcased.

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