Gadgetfairy Archive

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1	Judge Judy left speechless by welfare mom Greed is just as rampant at the bottom as it is at the top. That's not even true in capitalist societies. We have empirical studies showing how not true that is. Wealth is greedogenic, so to speak.	/r/MensRights	06/03/15 10:06 AM
6	Outlaw circumcision, dick tip cannot ever be brought back Cutting off a child's arms is similar to circumcision? And here I thought you guys weren't crazy. I'm not one of the guys here. Seriously. I'm not an MRA. That said: Both are a mutilation done because "he should look like me!", which is enough for the analogy to work. You'd be in favour of prison for mutilation of an infant in many other cases. Presumably you are against infibulation, but there are (indigenous) cultures where that's done. Presumably you think parents should not carve up the skin…	/r/MensRights	26/02/15 02:09 PM
3	Outlaw circumcision, dick tip cannot ever be brought back Outlawed? I'm sorry but no. My kid, my decision. I am glad I was circumcised and I think my son will be too. But you'd rather I be put in jail for that? I'd rather you be put in jail for mutilating your son, yes. Just as you would if you heard about that one-armed-man who proceeded to chop off his sons arm two days after being born. Banning things doesn't prevent or erase those things. It only makes it more expensive and difficult to get. The existence of criminals is not an argument against law…	/r/MensRights	26/02/15 01:59 PM
6	Kenyan men organizing sex boycott to protest whippings, beatings and castrations by women - Washington Post [...] How would it feel if you're friends always let you win cuz they didn't want to see you upset or thought you couldn't handle it? You'd want to be able to fight fair and want them to treat you as an equal. This is essentially what is happening in out courts, unfortunately. I think the idea your interlocutor has is wrong especially given the universality they imply, but what you describe here still constitutes a measure of control because it provides power, and a mechanism for that power to b…	/r/MensRights	11/02/15 05:49 AM
1	An example of sexism against men- the Austrian conscription vote. Women using institutional power to discriminate against men. True, I used the term as offered by OP.	/r/MensRights	10/02/15 03:53 AM
2	An example of sexism against men- the Austrian conscription vote. Women using institutional power to discriminate against men. Age isn't further discriminated, the "youngest" category is "under 29". In that category 59% of men and 72% of women voted against conscription. Having looked at the data again now (the last time I looked was when the whole thing happened) I have to correct the political affiliation bit: Correlations aren't ÖVP in favour, everyone else against, but more right of centre in favour, everyone else against. I'll correct this momentarily, then I'm going home and to bed. Have a good night. edit: Intere…	/r/MensRights	09/02/15 11:00 PM
1	An example of sexism against men- the Austrian conscription vote. Women using institutional power to discriminate against men. The general statistics are on the BMI site, and SORA did an analysis that can be found on [their website](www.sora.at/fileadmin/downloads/wahlen/2013_Volksbefragung_Wahlanalyse_Grafiken.pdf) but both are in German.	/r/MensRights	09/02/15 10:43 PM
1	An example of sexism against men- the Austrian conscription vote. Women using institutional power to discriminate against men. Almost everything. It's true that Austria voted to keep conscription as opposed to switching to a professional army in 2013. It isn't true that women overwhelmingly voted for conscription, or at least more than men; in fact the opposite is true. People voted for/against conscription along party lines; age was also a highly correlated factor, with older people more likely to vote in favour of conscription; as well as gender, with men being significantly more likely to vote in favour of conscripti…	/r/MensRights	09/02/15 10:29 PM
0	An example of sexism against men- the Austrian conscription vote. Women using institutional power to discriminate against men. He is wrong. I'm not sure how that should influence your post, but it is important to be reality-based in one's beliefs.	/r/MensRights	09/02/15 10:17 PM
24	An example of sexism against men- the Austrian conscription vote. Women using institutional power to discriminate against men. The vote spread is interesting to, 60-40....I'm willing to bet that a very high majority of women voted yes, while a less high majority of men voted no...maybe 90/10 yes/no for women, and 25/75 yes/no for men. So, essentially, women voted for male conscription. Well congratulations on being wrong. In truth, people who vote right (ÖVP, FPÖ, BZÖ) voted for conscription, people who vote anything else voted against it (SPÖ, Grüne, also many smaller parties such as KPÖ) . Further, young people were m…	/r/MensRights	09/02/15 10:16 PM
9	I think it says a lot about feminism that Sweden is a very feminist country yet has zero legal recognition, services or shelters for male victims of domestic violence. A woman can literally walk up to her husband in their house and start hitting and kicking him and physically injuring him, and it's 100% legal. This is not a society I want to live in. Good, because that's not the society Sweden is. Sweden has laws against battery. To think otherwise is insane.	/r/MensRights	09/02/15 04:01 PM
2	Replacing "men" with "Jews" in feminist Anita Sarkeesian's tweets is quite revealing... they essentially conflate their metaphysical beliefs with their ethnicity, We can show that Ashkenazim at least are a distinct ethnic group	/r/MensRights	25/01/15 10:49 PM
1	New male genital mutilation law in Norway - Since January 1st, all of Norway’s state-run hospitals have become legally obliged to offer circumcision of newborn baby boys. Isn't in the Muslim religion there is something about circumcising boys and girls as well? Female circumcision is cultural, rather than religious. As far as I know Islam doesn't require female circumcision.	/r/MensRights	23/01/15 03:51 PM
5	German court upholds tenant's right to pee standing up. Uric acid etches marble. Usually this happens with animal urine - cats have notoriously caustic urine - but in principle I see no contradiction in claiming that peeing on marble damages it.	/r/MensRights	22/01/15 09:39 PM
1	Good little boys, not hitting women. I thought about this for a while and I decided (As a woman) that what would probably happen is that the boy would get slapped almost every time. And the boy would try not to cry of course. I don't think so. Girls may not explicitly told to not hit boys, but children in general are usually reluctant to hit others and are also taught, at least I was, that violence is a last resort. If girls would hit boys on command that would probably tell us more about how boys and girls differ in dealing with a…	/r/MensRights	07/01/15 05:28 AM
2	Great post from /r/4chan about SJWs But not using the word, any word, means they win. It means that they have effectively changed the way you express yourself, the way you live. If I want to say fag because it doesn't mean anything to me, I think I should. Who is those "they" that control our lives? The reason I don't use "nigger", "kike", "fag", or similar words, inappropriately is because their use can be hurtful to many people, and I'm not keen on hurting people. That has nothing in itself to do with social justice, it's a matt…	/r/MensRights	10/12/14 08:53 AM
-1	Boris Johnson on The Shirt: "It was like a scene from Mao’s cultural revolution when weeping intellectuals were forced to confess their crimes against the people." A woman "self-objectifying" is not the same as a man "objectifying" women either. [...] We are, after all, concerned about "messages sent" to the youth of today that supposedly alter their consciousness and affect their desires. Depicting women as sexually appealing (ostensibly) influences women into thinking they can't do anything else. If that's the message, then sexy women on a shirt or a sexy woman on a magazine cover are different in little more than semantics. That's an angle I haven't pre…	/r/MensRights	17/11/14 11:23 PM
-12	Boris Johnson on The Shirt: "It was like a scene from Mao’s cultural revolution when weeping intellectuals were forced to confess their crimes against the people." He was bombarded across the internet with a hurtling dustcloud of hate, orchestrated by lobby groups and politically correct media organizations. Much of the "dustcloud of hate" came from private persons and was not orchestrated by an third party. It’s the hypocrisy of it all that irritates me. Here is Kim Kardashian – a heroine and idol to some members of my family – deciding to bust out all over the place, and good for her. No one seeks to engulf her in a tweetstorm of rage. But why is she hel…	/r/MensRights	17/11/14 06:09 PM
5	How common is non-paternity? There seems to be a range of figures, from less than 1% to up to 30% Current tests show a 10-16% non-paternity rate (e.g, Letter from the CSA but the numbers are consistent in the US and Canada) but that's only counting situations where the tests were done. Since at least some cases of non-paternity would never be questioned by the father and no test would be done, the actual number likewise is actually higher. That is completely backwards. The selection bias in paternity testing favours false paternity, meaning that the numbers are too high.	/r/MensRights	16/11/14 04:59 PM
2	So this is what I'm taking from shirtstorm/shirtgate - please correct me if I'm wrong. You don't have to look very hard to see scientific disciplines being dominated by men, Depends on the discipline. Overall, there are more women in the sciences than men as a function of there being more women in colleges than men. Society is difficult because we constantly interact with people in ways we don't intend to. That's true. That's why I think Matt Taylor apologized. His shirt adds an iota of resistance to prospective women of science. [...] He didn't cry because he was bullied [...] Do…	/r/MensRights	16/11/14 04:52 PM
1	This. This so much. I don't think we can discuss objectification without a working definition of it. I'll just say that my spouse is a woman who would say otherwise (but that is anecdotal and not useful for generalisation either), and I want to clarify the following: And in no way did I insinuate that women should "be afraid, be very afraid!" Not sure why you thought that. I did not mean to say that you specifically said that. I'm claiming that this happens generally. Women are told all their lives - sometimes with…	/r/MensRights	15/11/14 10:20 PM
2	What Dr. Matt Taylor would be known for in a world without radical feminism. No, I'm not. Even benign criticism can be overwhelming when it comes in the form of a massive deluge. That's one thing, and what I meant with a consequence of the conditions and structures in which we communicate If you call me an idiot for saying something stupid, that won't do much to me. If thousands of tweets are addressed to me saying that, and a few thousand more indirectly addressing me via a newly minted hashtag, that's different. I don't necessarily fault people for that, but we still h…	/r/MensRights	15/11/14 09:53 PM
2	What Dr. Matt Taylor would be known for in a world without radical feminism. It's the mode of discourse, not a trollish minority. With those I have trouble regardless. In part that's just a consequence of the conditions and structures in which we communicate.	/r/MensRights	15/11/14 09:09 PM
2	What Dr. Matt Taylor would be known for in a world without radical feminism. Can you not accept that mens rights would be objecting to men being depicted as buffoon in a professional setting on a woman's shirt, and we would be saying what an infantile, stupid and defensive woman she is? Do you not know there is a push against women being depicted as sex objects and scenery in tech? Sure, and if he had worn a shirt saying something like "women are only good for sex", I'd have objected to that. He wore a shirt with (either within specific subcultures I'm tangentially invol…	/r/MensRights	15/11/14 09:00 PM
2	What Dr. Matt Taylor would be known for in a world without radical feminism. You edited your original post after I had already opened it. I'll address your questions there in a minute. Its not unreasonable to be agitated by numerous people debating about something being objected to, while having little or no idea why its being objected to I understand why it is being objected to, I don't agree with the alleged seriousness of the violation of social custom. What I am mostly actually against is the disproportional response. That isn't an issue I have only with this situati…	/r/MensRights	15/11/14 08:55 PM
2	What Dr. Matt Taylor would be known for in a world without radical feminism. I don't think so. My first objection to your post was one objecting to a lack of nuance when you compared what I consider to be not sexist with something that is explicitly and intentionally sexist. You seem to be unreasonably agitated. I'm not sure why that is relevant, but clearly we've reached the point of debating our relative personalities rather than the issue.	/r/MensRights	15/11/14 08:27 PM
2	What Dr. Matt Taylor would be known for in a world without radical feminism. Okay. I gave an alternative - and in my opinion more fitting - example to your "men are buffoons"-example by exaggerating women as sex objects. If a gamer woman were to wear a Henpecked-Hou-shirt from Jade Empire in your edu-setting I'd find that inappropriate also, but not a big deal. Not enough to overshadow whatever the accomplishment, nor reason to pile onto her.	/r/MensRights	15/11/14 08:19 PM
4	What Dr. Matt Taylor would be known for in a world without radical feminism. Yes I know what he wore, for fucks sake. I don't doubt that, I was trying to point out that there is a difference. The mens movement is trying to oppose men being seen and depicted as sex objects instead of peers in science, just like feminists aren't trying to oppose women being shown as incompetent buffoons on tv. I don't understand what you are trying to say here.	/r/MensRights	15/11/14 07:24 PM
4	What Dr. Matt Taylor would be known for in a world without radical feminism. We would make the same argument if a female head of education wore a men are buffoons trope supporting t-shirt to speak at a future of edu. event. He wasn't wearing a shirt that said "women are cumdumpsters", he wore a shirt with women drawn in a pin-up style on it. I assume that he is in some way connected to the rockabilly scene. And if a woman were to wear a shirt with yaoi-characters on it, I'd say the same thing I am saying now: It's inappropriate, not sexist, and not a big deal.	/r/MensRights	15/11/14 06:55 PM
5	This. This so much. I personally don't really care what that man wears, but this is a dangerous viewpoint. "He did xxx, so he can do whatever he wants." Just because someone is smart or a fantastic athlete or singer or what have you, doesn't mean they get a free pass. That would be a horrible way to gauge a person's worth or value. Read comments like that more charitably. Of course nobody is suggesting that being the lead scientist of a team furthering the knowledge of humanity (or an athlete, rockstar, or what hav…	/r/MensRights	15/11/14 05:31 PM
2	SJWs bullied scientist Matt Taylor to tears. He apologized for "offending" people by his shirt. I am out of words. "If you wish to know who rules over you, look to who you cannot criticize" Voltaire i believe. Nah, Kevin Strom, talking about International Jewry.	/r/MensRights	15/11/14 12:26 PM
1	A male feminist asked teenage boys why they don't like feminism, these are the four reasons they came up with........ No, but it shows why it is nonsensical. It is applicable to conspiracy theories about international Jewry, leftism, rightism, whatever you want, when the issues are truth and kindness in many cases.	/r/MensRights	14/11/14 10:03 PM
-3	A male feminist asked teenage boys why they don't like feminism, these are the four reasons they came up with........ Well we know Voltaire's quote "if you want to know who rules over you, look at who you cannot criticize". That is a quote of Kevin Strom, white supremacist and racist activist. You can imagine whom he meant. It is often misattributed to Voltaire.	/r/MensRights	14/11/14 09:00 AM
2	After blaming GamerGate, feminists are now blaming MRA's for the Anita Sarkeesian school shooting threat...by claiming feminist phrases are actually "MRA language"? You can't make this up. What does that even mean? Speak up against her for what? She's doing exactly what film critics do to video games. Well those that don't watch the films they are analysing at least ;) MRAs are certainly open about their dislike of Sarkessian, but they are incapable of providing cogent reasons for that hatred. And because they can't provide good reasons, people are going to assume its misogyny. Now for a more serious answer: it isn't just that MRAs "can't come up with a cogent reason", which I'd d…	/r/MensRights	16/10/14 10:34 PM
2	My professor tried to lecture objectively about circumcisions, but I feel she was leaning more towards our way of looking at it. She surveyed the students, these were the results. I don't see it as barbaric, though. It's normal for them. It's dismissive to feel that because we are a first world country (US I'm assuming) traditions that are strange to us are automatically bad. Not automatically. There are good reasons why some traditions are bad. Look a Thai people stabbing their faces. Yeah we would never do that here, but that doesn't mean there is anything wrong with it. Adults can do what ever they please to themselves.	/r/MensRights	16/10/14 09:54 PM
9	My professor tried to lecture objectively about circumcisions, but I feel she was leaning more towards our way of looking at it. She surveyed the students, these were the results. The difference between FGM and circumcision is great, both its purpose and who receives them. Is it? Which type of FGM are you comparing to which type of MGM? FGM isn't really a hallmark of orthodox Christians. I don't see how that's relevant.	/r/MensRights	16/10/14 09:53 PM
0	"Emergency food rations... made available first and sometimes exclusively to women as ‘female heads of households.'" We have these miraculous things called computers and databases. Easy fix for double-dipping: take ID or a piece of mail as an address listing, turn away after the first instance of the address. Allow for individual judgment calls on going over the head of the computer to account for multifamily dwellings and the like. This is especially possible in impoverished areas after major humanitarian disasters, where everybody has ID, and electricity, too! One could almost assume they didn't need any hel…	/r/MensRights	13/10/14 10:00 PM
1	France: Feminists Demands Removal of Sculpture “Unconditional Surrender” from the Caen Memorial Consent was given regardless of whether she wanted to be kissed just as you consent to be sent spam by virtue of having an email account even though you'd rather not get any. Unsolicited spam is illegal in my country You can't say "Only send me email I want" in the case of cat calling "only speak to me if I am attracted to you" Well I can say a variation of the former. In any case those are different, as neither e-mail generally, nor being spoken to, requires prior consent in the kind of normal …	/r/MensRights	12/10/14 06:56 PM
2	France: Feminists Demands Removal of Sculpture “Unconditional Surrender” from the Caen Memorial This was taking place during a celebration of the end of the war. A lot of strangers were kissing each other in public in much similar ways. If this "victim" had been opposed to this sort of thing happening she could easily have removed herself from the scene. She didn't and she also confirmed the behaviour did not bother her. She said that she did not want to be kissed. A lack of consent is enough to make it sexual assault, no matter if it bothered her or not. Usually people in this sub - and I…	/r/MensRights	12/10/14 05:10 PM
3	France: Feminists Demands Removal of Sculpture “Unconditional Surrender” from the Caen Memorial Well that and the actual woman has said she was fine with it. In retrospect she doesn't care, but the actual woman also said that she did not know the soldier nor wanted to be kissed by him - in other words, she was sexually assaulted. Even an evil feminist sometimes gets something right. Also, that statue is ugly and should be removed on those grounds alone.	/r/MensRights	12/10/14 10:23 AM
6	Crowdfunding campaign to "Pay back the money women lose from the 'wage gap'." How many times does this idea need to be proven wrong to stop the idiocy? The first title is basically saying the wage gap exists; it does not. The wage gap exists, but largely not because of direct discrimination.	/r/MensRights	09/10/14 08:37 PM
1	Emma Watson called out in the New York Post I don't believe it is ever morally impermissible to disconnect the violinist, and certainly should not be illegal. Okay, but this is again not self-evident. You own your own body. Just because it's a shitty situation that the violinist will die if you pull the plug and leave him, that doesn't mean that you lose your rights to act as you please with your own body. Doesn't it? I'm already restricted in doing as I please with my body. I am not permitted to use it to murder, for example. How is that…	/r/MensRights	01/10/14 10:32 AM
1	Emma Watson called out in the New York Post the number is closer to 92 or 94% when all factors are taken into account, although it's not a perfect number In the context of the discussion both this and the 77% percentage are useless. The question is: given couples where one person stays at home and the other doesn't, how many of those will be women? The answer is neither 77% nor 92%, not only because they are additional factors other than wages, but also because couples probably don't neatly partition along wage lines (i.e. the absolute pa…	/r/MensRights	30/09/14 02:50 PM
1	Emma Watson called out in the New York Post Again, your autonomy only applies to you. Exactly. And that's why women are free to have the fetus disconnected from their body. No person is forced to provide blood, nourishment, or any other use of their body to anyone else. This isn't as self-evident as you think. If you take the famous violinist analogy, there are quite good arguments why it is both impermissible to connect a person to the violinist without consent, and said person disconnecting the violinist. That is to say, the act of conn…	/r/MensRights	30/09/14 02:45 PM
1	Zoe Quinn responds to recent events I'll answer tomorrow, I need to go to bed now.	/r/MensRights	17/09/14 01:01 AM
6	Are video games sexist? [Christina Hoff Summers -Factual Feminist] I saw that video many times. Still, she likes some games, but doesn't see herself as a "gamer". What is a "gamer", for you? She also said repeatedly that she is a gamer, especially in the old series. There is some tension here. Some may even say lying.	/r/MensRights	17/09/14 12:58 AM
1	Zoe Quinn responds to recent events so questioning the integrity of the reporters, then? why aren't they being called into question for letting their sex life impact their work? That isn't really the issue. There's unfortunately a huge and somewhat murky swamp of context I can't present in a couple of lines on reddit. On the journalism side, the problem isn't their sex life per se, but rather journalistic ethics, and undisclosed nepotism, and financial entanglements. On these being unveiled, the gaming media in question decided to…	/r/MensRights	16/09/14 11:02 PM
4	Zoe Quinn responds to recent events just like questioning her integrity No, the integrity and journalistic ethics of the gaming media.	/r/MensRights	16/09/14 08:49 PM
2	First attempt at discussion with a radfem. Looking for critiques and comments on my form and rational. The analogy should be a comparison to theft. If you put your valuables out of view and lock your car doors, you're protecting yourself from theft... but if someone is out looking for things to steal, it just means he walks past your car and goes for the one with a laptop sitting in the passenger seat, or the one with the door unlocked. The analogy is fine, given the initial argument. I still think that rape attempts are less covert especially when discovered as described in the facebook post. Pr…	/r/MensRights	15/09/14 09:46 AM
6	First attempt at discussion with a radfem. Looking for critiques and comments on my form and rational. The seatbelt analogy fails; seatbelts don't prevent accidents, they mitigate the consequences. Anti-rape nail polish prevents rape. I haven't read further because I need to sleep and I don't wish to read more. Also: preventing a rape doesn't imply that therefore another rape must happen. There is no universal rape quota rapists desperately need to fulfil (lest the world ends or something).	/r/MensRights	15/09/14 02:45 AM
6	Former Occupy organizer on feminists: "They were never interested in paying their end of the bargain in helping out labor, because that would require making peace with people who aren’t radical enough The whole page lists as contributers people who are either right-wing (among others people associated with the Charles Koch institute, and a self-styled reactionary(!)) or conspicuously don't mention their political slant in their respective personal blurbs. The author of that article's "about"-section reads: Author: Ezra Jones A man who likes cheese. Born and raised in southeastern Massachusetts, Mr. Jones found no sense of meaning to the existence of the area (nor saw a future for his generati…	/r/MensRights	08/09/14 10:48 PM
1	Will the Guardian newspaper ever take a day-off from having a go at men? So if a drunk driver causes a 15 car pile up, and I drive by and look at it, am I aiding and embedding in "vehicular homicide culture"? For the analogy to be more fitting you'd have had to deliberately drive to the scene of the pile-up in order to look at it.	/r/MensRights	08/09/14 12:54 AM