Crake

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by Crake 12y ago
>By conflating their gender with the feminist movement ...what? The author is a feminist. The whole site is. From the site's FAQ: "Feminism and fat acceptance have always been, and will always be at the heart of this blog.&quot
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by Crake 12y ago
>Given that, why would we expect feminists to be talking about the effect of sexual assault on males? Because "feminism fights for men too!" is something we hear all the time. >It's not their responsibility to do so, an
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by Crake 12y ago
>What does it mean for you? Someone who believes something or another about women's rights, and is statistically more likely to dismiss or suppress any discussion of men's issues.
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by Crake 12y ago
>men have to deal with the fact that they're more likely to be rasped by another man Not really. From a comment below: One of the studies of the Bureau of Justice data notes that in a certain subset of the data, 46% of the male vict
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by Crake 12y ago
>Aaaaaaand it's flagged off the front page. Any discussion of men's issues is usually quickly suppressed by the usual parties. :/
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by Crake 12y ago
>these hypothetical feminists you speak of >citing no evidence whatsoever to back up the statement >outright fabrication I provided a link to the source. I recommend you review both it and the hundreds of comments agreeing with it.
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by Crake 12y ago
Please explain how "many feminists" is a "weasel phrase." >That's a terrible state of affairs, but not for the reasons you think. Explain.
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by Crake 12y ago
>Any feminist will tell you that most rape does not fit the "large stranger overpowers a woman in the streets" scenario. If that is truly the case, then why do many feminists believe that every man on the street must be treated
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by Crake 12y ago
Feminists, mostly.
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by Crake 12y ago
Men are 77% of the homeless population [1]. This doesn't mean that no women are homeless, just that women are much less likely to end up homeless (presumably as a result of the much greater amount of resources dedicated to disadvantage
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by Crake 12y ago
>prostitution I think most couples would be pretty offended if you called the girlfriend a prostitute for letting their boyfriend financially support them. >Every study I've seen shows that women are paid less in than men in equi
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by Crake 12y ago
Women have an easier time finding somewhere to stay because they are considered more valuable to society. Men are disposable, which is why far fewer resources are devoted to helping them. Women also can just get a boyfriend if they lose the
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by Crake 12y ago
>I ended up at private nationally accredited program "Nationally" accredited is scam school code for "not accredited."
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by Crake 12y ago
>disadvantaged minorities always have to consider this. It's probably one of the biggest privileges that white males have in day to day life White males can be minorities, too.
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by Crake 12y ago
I actually moved from the midwest to NYC for exactly that reason. I can't afford the in state public university in my home state, so I had to move here, as ridiculous as that sounds. Luckily, NYC is not nearly as expensive as people ma
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by Crake 12y ago
Well, the most you can take out is $5,500 as an 18 year old. They're more than happy to legally deny you any other loans if you don't have the support of a rich family to cosign some private ones for you.
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by Crake 12y ago
You need to have the money upfront to pay for the first two years of college, though. You can't use money you won't earn for another two years to pay a tuition bill that's due now. At the amount I was getting paid in 2007, it
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by Crake 12y ago
These easy opportunities aren't really available to my generation. :/ I was born in a poor rural area, and for a while the only job I could find actually paid less than state minimum wage. It's hard to pay rent and buy food
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by Crake 12y ago
There's a $57,500 lifetime limit on federal student loans for undergraduates. The people you see on the news complaining about their $200,000 english degree debt are people who have rich family who cosigned a bunch of private loans for
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by Crake 12y ago
> The guy's recommendation to "subtract 1000" from whatever your balance is is totally infeasible for a large portion of the population. I liked how the example used $1000, too. As if poor people even have that much in to
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by Crake 12y ago
In my experience, wealthy people will usually define wealth in such a way as to exclude themselves from being categorized as wealthy.
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by Crake 13y ago
Right, because gay people have civil rights but black people and women don't... Then again "queer" these days often means "straight but wants tumblr oppression points," so your perspective might be different from an
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by Crake 13y ago
You must not have met many feminists. They hate egalitarians much more than they hate misogynists, in my experience.
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by Crake 13y ago
One guy sarcastically suggests getting rid of a term, and you reply by seriously suggesting we get rid of people . Just curious, if you were in charge--how would you choose to "dispose" of these undesirables?
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Attacks over the (lack of a) gender gap in tech salaries(qz.com)
6 points by Crake 13y ago|0 comments
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Social Justice Warriors: Do Not Engage(sjwar.blogspot.com)
2 points by Crake 13y ago|0 comments
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by Crake 13y ago
>Seems like the "pretty rational" behavior of keeping women out of the water fails to account for "unclean" men and animals as well. I really doubt that they'd let a guy bleeding out everywhere do much of anythin
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by Crake 13y ago
>Judaism, Protestants and Muslims all believe sex is a normal healthy thing. LOL. Might want to give their religion's source material a read.
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by Crake 13y ago
Yup. That's why old testament practices like male genital mutilation are no longer practiced by Christians today.
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by Crake 13y ago
>The vast majority of Christians would agree that this doesn't apply to Christians today. Jesus disagrees with that, as these people would learn if they ever actually read their holy text.

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