Blinkdog Archive

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1	"Mostly women and children killed" but actually more men than women died. Sometimes I wonder if part of the reason they specify women but not men comes from the old anglo-saxon words for man, woman and human. 'Man' used to be the word for 'human being'. A male human was a 'Werman' (Where the 'Wer' in werewolf comes from) and a female human was a 'Wifman' (Wif being the root of Wife). Using that convention, you'd say 10 men died, 5 wermen, 5 wifmen. Nowadays, thanks to lazy usage, the neuter 'man' now refers to the male human, while female humans still have their disti…	/r/MensRights	12/03/12 02:39 PM
9	The entire world is programmed against women...apparently. Exactly. Women must act like women, men must act like men, or the PATRIARCHY will rain down woe upon them.	/r/MensRights	28/02/12 06:08 PM
19	The entire world is programmed against women...apparently. It goes both ways: http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4123	/r/MensRights	28/02/12 03:59 PM
2	Had A Painful Conversation With This Girl Today Sorry, I didn't really understand the first part of your comment, it was hard for me to parse. I apologize for the confusion, I was trying to answer a rhetorical question that was tangential to my main point, which was a mistake on my part. I should have clarified my position, rather than try to literally fill his request for information.	/r/MensRights	13/02/12 08:48 PM
3	Had A Painful Conversation With This Girl Today Nothing wrong with your statement. I was trying to provide an answer to a rhetorical question, which was a mistake on my part. I apologize, please let me clarify my position. My argument isn't that a liberal arts education is the only thing you need. My argument is that a liberal arts education can improve a student's performance in a variety of situations far outside the bounds of the subject written on their degree. Will they still require job-specific training or education? Of course. But in …	/r/MensRights	13/02/12 08:25 PM
5	Had A Painful Conversation With This Girl Today It's a free webpage that presents a searchable sortable database, not a mobile phone application. I forget sometimes that the meaning of the word 'app' has changed. I found it with a google search for employment statistics by college major. If I was getting paid for this I'd have spent more time trying to find something that broke down the statistics for what majors are employed in what industries.	/r/MensRights	13/02/12 07:57 PM
4	Had A Painful Conversation With This Girl Today You don't have to BE the best, you just have to convince the guy who is doing the hiring/promoting that you ARE the best, even if that is not true. Which is probably why humans suck at hiring: we are better at bullshitting.	/r/MensRights	13/02/12 06:15 PM
9	Had A Painful Conversation With This Girl Today You don't hire a degree. You hire a person who has a degree, which indicates they have education that meets certain criteria, as well as the aptitude and drive to achieve that education. That person usually also comes with a whole suite of skills, education, experience and abilities unrelated to their degree. If you want statistics on employment, The Wall Street Journal has an interesting app that shows employment statistics by college major, sortable and searchable. For anecdotes (which aren't …	/r/MensRights	13/02/12 05:52 PM
0	Had A Painful Conversation With This Girl Today Reading comprehension! Another incredibly valuable skill best learned through liberal arts, thank you for the demonstration!	/r/MensRights	13/02/12 05:33 PM
1	Had A Painful Conversation With This Girl Today My favorite math teacher considered himself an applied philosopher, and I'm inclined to agree with him.	/r/MensRights	13/02/12 05:26 PM
1	Had A Painful Conversation With This Girl Today Which classes did you learn those skills in though? Were they science and math courses, or were they humanities courses?	/r/MensRights	13/02/12 03:41 PM
3	Had A Painful Conversation With This Girl Today Well yes. Those are just additional benefits. The value they have standing on their own should be self-evident, and anyone who doesn't recognize that probably isn't going to believe you when you tell them.	/r/MensRights	13/02/12 03:40 PM
5	Had A Painful Conversation With This Girl Today Broad perspective: Finding a job. Critical thinking: How to get that job. Coherent arguments: Convincing the interviewer you are the one for the job.	/r/MensRights	13/02/12 03:35 PM
20	Had A Painful Conversation With This Girl Today They teach children that with hard work and perseverance they can accomplish anything, and then teach them nothing about either of those things.	/r/MensRights	13/02/12 03:29 PM
14	Had A Painful Conversation With This Girl Today Hands-on get-shit-done skills are best taught by getting your hands on and shit done. They are valuable, but not ideal for teaching in a university environment. That said, the ability to think critically, take in a broader perspective, and to articulate your thoughts is a useful and worthwhile skill set for anyone both on and off the job, no matter what that job might be. The mess that is the american higher education system has not been able to do as good a job as it should in teaching these sk…	/r/MensRights	13/02/12 03:16 PM
14	Had A Painful Conversation With This Girl Today They just need to use more textbooks with content like this: http://i.imgur.com/k0AV9.jpg	/r/MensRights	13/02/12 02:33 PM
66	Had A Painful Conversation With This Girl Today Seems like their teachers did not succeed in imparting those students with critical thinking skills.	/r/MensRights	13/02/12 02:01 PM
128	Had A Painful Conversation With This Girl Today As a typical engineer, this always puzzled me, until a particularly good english teacher explained it to me. A liberal arts education is not vocational training. You could go on to get a job in that field, yes, but that is not the primary intent. The liberal arts teacher hopes to impart the following things to their students: Critical thinking skills. A broader perspective of the world. The ability to construct sound arguments to defend or promote their ideas. These skills can help the student b…	/r/MensRights	13/02/12 01:34 PM
14	TV Tropes: Rape Is Okay When It Is Female on Male Also, don't click on ANY of the links in a TVtropes article. They're not malicious or anything, but unless you've got a clean schedule for the rest of the day you will regret it.	/r/MensRights	10/01/12 02:51 PM
1	Domestic violence groups claim the use of logic by men is abuse Exactly. The problem isn't any individual document, it's the organization itself, and organizations like it. Why pick at branches when you can rip it out at the root? I guess only focusing on organizations would be kind of dull though. Holding up each new insult for scrutiny helps keep the fire burning, reminds everyone what needs to be done. Seems like I was using too much logic and not enough practical thinking. Thanks for helping me get a better perspective on things, keep fighting the good f…	/r/MensRights	28/10/11 09:00 PM
1	Domestic violence groups claim the use of logic by men is abuse I agree with your point. I was arguing with your argument (which seems like a silly thing to do in retrospect). As for the cats and dogs, I was just using them to illustrate subsets of a larger group (pets), and how when an organization focused specifically on one of those subsets releases documentation regarding that subset, it does not necessarily mean that documentation applies only to that subset. And you are also right about humans being fairly uniform across genders re: abusive behaviors. …	/r/MensRights	28/10/11 03:13 AM
1	Domestic violence groups claim the use of logic by men is abuse Being fair, the organization's focus is to stop men abusing women. Should there be a sister organization that focuses on stopping women abusing men, or a broadening of scope to include all forms of abuse? Yes. Given the limited scope of the organization as-is though, both of those interpretations are a bit of a stretch. It's like a dog obedience school putting out a list of things an untrained dog can do to damage your house and complaining that it implies that cats cannot do these things. Stret…	/r/MensRights	27/10/11 07:18 PM
2	Domestic violence groups claim the use of logic by men is abuse Agreed, context is always important.	/r/MensRights	27/10/11 04:55 PM
3	Domestic violence groups claim the use of logic by men is abuse A clear example would be a cult leader using twisted logic and false truths to control emotionally vulnerable people. To someone who is emotionally stable, it might seem silly, but it works and can cause real harm to someone. A significant other doing the same thing is just as harmful. I think it would be better to word it 'using twisted logic and falsehoods stated as fact to manipulate others is abuse'.	/r/MensRights	27/10/11 03:10 PM
1	Domestic violence groups claim the use of logic by men is abuse My thoughts exactly. Using what appears to be logic (but is twisted to ones own ends) is abusive. Claiming something that is not true is The Truth is also abusive. Dr. Palmatier ignores the qualifiers signified by the quotation marks and instead takes a purely literal interpretation, building a rant against the MSV (and women in general it seems ಠ_ಠ ) with that flawed reading. Misinterpreting communication and overreacting? That's an abuse of intelligence. I guess you could have abusive logic th…	/r/MensRights	27/10/11 04:23 AM