A critique would be wonderful. I have to say this now that my prophecy about MyLo came true. This was the worst played game of mafia I have ever seen on both sides. It was hilariously bad. I am not exempt. Entertaining game to say the least.
Left is right. The more difficult the battle the more satisfying the victory.
I can't give everyone the same gift. People would talk.
Happy birthday, friend. I got you existentialism. Who are you?
I am against this.
ITP: Projection
Yes, exactly.
The fact that a great deal of humanity still believes in free will and/or selflessness.
Hmmm... I'm sure there's a way to do it but it's probably not easy. Ah well. Side note: If large results are an issue then you could have a maximum height and only display the full posts on click or something to that effect.
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I am saying that exceptions are not common enough to change the culture as a whole. Privilege doesn't hurt anyone. That's a misnomer. Privilege is any circumstance or lack of circumstance that saves one from suffering relative to the circumstances for others. Some of the circumstances surrounding females put them in a position to undergo less suffering than males or be unable to empathize with the suffering of males. You would call that female privilege. Two people can have 'privilege' in various areas of their lives. Fear of sexual assault is one where males have privilege because they experience it, are pressured to it, and generally worry far less than females. Notice how I use 'males' and 'females'. Groups. Not individuals. I use these generalizations because if you look at the data, there is one factor that correlates heavily with one's fear of sexual assault. It's sex. If I were to play a guessing game where I had to guess someone's sex purely by their fear of sexual assault, my results would be accurate enough to prove my point, especially on the more extreme cases in either direction. I would inevitably get a handful wrong, but that's not important since it does not contradict the correlation to sex itself. Almost no scientific studies have unanimous results. That doesn't make the results unusable. We can still isolate a highly important factor and use it to predict what someone will be like with significantly improved accuracy. My position comes from culture. Culture is made up of trends. The trends suggest that upon meeting someone who is female, the prudent thing to do is avoid undermining sexual assault as a problem and to avoid making them feel threatened. The trends also suggest that upon meeting someone is male, the prudent thing to do is undermine the seriousness of any kind of violence and establish one's own fearlessness. If someone meets you, they will expect you to adhere to the same standard because it makes sense to them that if you grew up in that culture, you would mirror it. Relative to culture, you are an outlier. The majority of your sex are not like you. It's more likely that your fear is a result of nature more than nurture because it contradicts the trends of nurture. Most cultures nurture women into a position of fear and men into a position of bravado. The US's culture definitely does. You'll have to constantly correct peoples' expectations because culture doesn't care for individuals. It's all about expectations that become self-fulfilling prophecies.
The level of anxiety is caused by the environment. Laurence's anxiety exists and is as strong as it is because of the culture she grew up in. If you haven't experienced the things she has, that's one thing. If you have experienced those things and they didn't bother you, then we can talk. The male privilege I referenced is not being subjected to those kinds of pressures and worries throughout life. I thought that Laurence's emotionally charged anecdote might drive the point home better than my cold description. It makes it more real to know that these things affect real people so strongly. Compare: Which of these does a better job of making the problem real to you?
http://imgur.com/gallery/KUNRp70 Hope this helps.
Pretty sure it's not discriminatory. There's no reason for it to be.
Straw man argument: An argument against a position that is like the opponent's, but is easier to attack than their actual position. e.g. "You believe that the Middle East has legitimate reason to be angry at the U.S.? You must support terrorism." Straw man in bold. The term is a metaphor for someone who beats up a straw effigy of an opponent instead of facing the real thing. It's in the first post. It didn't specify.
Thanks, Laurence. May I quote that later if I need to explain male privilege to someone? On that note, the post was not talking about the subject. It was not inviting a discussion on the page about the subject. It was, as far as I can tell, a one-time call for people on the page to voluntarily click a link and take part in preventing sexual assault. The people who complained are tired of people wanting to put an end to sexual assault? Are tired of being reminded that feminism exists? What is it? Because it's definitely not people talking about it.
Great. I told you to stop this. Rape is considered one of the worst things to do on paper, but if you bring up a particular instance of rape people become far more divisive. They can't agree that it was rape. Many say that the victim invited it because they could have prevented it. If I say, 'If someone was raped, how would you feel about it?' you would say, 'I would feel horrible.' That's a hypothetical. Easy to take in and make a judgment on. What if I bring up a specific case with real people? My guess is you would be skeptical and want to hear both sides. You might have trouble accepting that it was a rape or might want to see it as a double fault. Similarly, everyone believes that police brutality is bad in theory. But bring up an actual accusation and most people will see it as justified, even with video footage. The best argument against products like that is that they entrench acceptance of rape rates into the culture. It's a fact that they put the burden on the victim to protect themselves. Unfortunately, there is no way around that. Rape is the hardest crime to prove in a court of law that I know of. The argument against them is based in righteous outrage that the rape victim is at a disadvantage both socially and legally. Rape forces all of the responsibility onto the victim by necessity. The purpose of these arguments is to increase that outrage in the hopes that it might effect some kind of change. Socially, if not legally.[DOUBLEPOST=1411247307][/DOUBLEPOST] I'm implying that these people wouldn't have complained aloud if the page started posting unrelated comic strips. Those who didn't like it would just leave. They have a problem with the subject matter in particular. They dislike this particular type of post. Not all unrelated content.
Read the comments again. There's a constant trend of "I don't like feminism" "feminism is bad" "this page must be full of sjw, which are bad". All of these stem from a comment about stopping sexual assault. Not a comment about feminism or social justice. These people are obviously anti-feminists who associate anti-rape with feminism and social justice. They see it as a package deal. And they believe that the whole package is bad. It's not an argument. They're not inviting discussion or entering a debate. They're defaming the page with their own straw men (being against sexual assault makes you a feminist and/or sjw) and threatening to unlike the page if it doesn't stop. In other words they are threatening to not take part in any discussions at all.[DOUBLEPOST=1411246320][/DOUBLEPOST] If no one thinks it is bad, why do they associate it with feminism and SJW in a tone that implies those things are bad?
