Lars

  • 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]

  • Davis replied to the topic Cats: Threat or Menace? in the forum Science 5 years, 11 months ago

    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

     

  • Thanks Reg!

  • 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]

  • That’s a cop out. Things are worse in other countries so it’s not a big deal? Cause that’s what I see when people respond like that. The answer is: we can and must do better.

    I mean come on, people suffer pointlessly because of it…and its effects can easily be diminished by meaningful action. It starts with acknowledging it. It’s not that hard to do.

  • The live and let live myth is a total complete utter fantasy. A silly illusion. It is most evident by the anger that white people feel when the mere possibility that their country isn’t the tollerant biggotry free paradise they think they live in. The idea that just because they don’t see overt racism, homophobia (and even sexism) means its solved…[Read more]

  • Absolute free speech is an American concept Simon. It has never existed in Europe/Canada/Aust/NZ/Japan/S.Korea. And the only British (and European people) I know who advocate it are conservative or far-right people who are annoyed they are no longer able to vilify and discriminate against groups  of people they despise. A just and free society…[Read more]

  • Hitchens was not always adept distinguishing between the offensive and the destructive. Criticizing a set of ideas is one thing. Promoting discriminatory toxicity is another. And its funny because he was always the defender of the marginalized but, uncommonly for a brit, was an absolute free speech crusader. I just look at Poland right now, the…[Read more]

  • Ha, Reg!  That last line of yours was excellent!  Ladies of London, eh?

  • I love that reply, @davis. Especially your mums position. That made me grin.

  • My parents are both atheists though my mother does tend towards the “there is some greater meaning in the universe” though it is completely undefined and she has no position on an afterlife other than “hopefully it’s something nice”. My father believes we become dust. Which I think should be, really, the default position. Unlike a lot of religious…[Read more]

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