cpolito87 Archive

Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

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1	Can drunk people consent to sex? If you do something then generally you're consenting to it. It may be a bad idea, and you may not do it without alcohol, but free will isn't suddenly gone because you've had a couple drinks. I've had girlfriends who start and consent to sex when they were intoxicated. If a person is conscious and coherent they can consent.	/r/MensRights	20/06/11 02:26 AM
0	Can drunk people consent to sex? Seeing as drunk people can initiate sex, then I think that logically they can consent to it.	/r/MensRights	19/06/11 07:49 AM
6	My best friend is a feminist. What do? And no I can't just not be her friend. I'm looking for arguements AGAINST this article. The article makes a lot of really good points against the pay gap itself. I looked at the stats it's based on a while back, and IIRC, women averaged something like 80% of the hours men averaged annually. Once industry and education were controlled they were making about 80% what men were making annually. You should verify that with the raw data. Otherwise, the article points out that much of the difference is based on sex-based self-segregation. Self-segregation doesn't sound like discrimination…	/r/MensRights	18/06/11 06:22 AM
2	Objectifying gaze" makes helpless women lose math ability. Feminist researchers suggest stricter harassment laws to persecute men. No attempt to empower women so their brain would not suffer from a 10 second gaze. This whole "objectifying gaze" seems likely to be explained by stereotype threat. Simply reminding people that they're part of a stereotyped group can lead them to conforming to the stereotype. It's been demonstrated with men, women, and a whole slew of different races. So, it makes sense that if you remind women that they're WOMEN right before a math test then it is likely to have a negative effect. This isn't really new, and the idea that it's somehow harassment is laughable.	/r/MensRights	11/04/11 01:53 AM
1	As Promised: My Response to the Rape Lies Printed by My Campus Paper Well written critique. As someone else said, I don't think that a 50% rate of false accusations is realistic, but I appreciate your argument for it. As a Wash U grad student I don't pay much attention to studlife and whatnot, but I'm fairly surprised that they'd publish such a shoddy article.	/r/MensRights	07/04/11 07:38 PM
7	Judge rules that its too late, and a man must continue to pay child support for a child he didn't father. This seems like another case of the law not keeping up with the times. When a lot of child support laws were passed there was this stupid presumption that the husband is always the father if the child was born while the mother was married. Before DNA testing could identify the father 100% this may have made sense, but now it should be changed. I see a lot of blame for the judge here and in the comments on that site, but he could be handcuffed by the law of the state. It'd be an easy judgment to …	/r/MensRights	31/03/11 12:52 AM
1	What do you guys think about women characters in video games? Again, I'd ask for a citation for the demographic breakdown of game purchases. The 2010 ESA Report says that women purchase 46% of all games. That may include mothers buying for children, but I haven't seen any other sources refuting it. Simply stating that the stats I've provided are false and I'm out of touch isn't exactly an argument method. Personally, I'd just like to see the medium mature a bit as a whole. 75% of gamers are 18 or older, but the industry seems to still be stuck pandering to…	/r/MensRights	24/03/11 02:31 PM
1	What do you guys think about women characters in video games? See my above post about the actual demographics of games. Women buy 48% of all video games as of 2009, so I'm not sure it's too much for them to ask that maybe developers think about their demographic in the design of future games. The video game and movie industry both seem to think that men between 15-25 are the only people who spend money on their products and thus target a huge amount of their design and advertising toward that single demographic (think the Dante's Inferno ads or the more re…	/r/MensRights	24/03/11 05:10 AM
2	What do you guys think about women characters in video games? Citation? According to this article women make up 40% of the game-playing demographic and 48% of the game-purchasing demographic. I mean I understand that 60% is "still mostly men" but we're approaching parity, and the masculinity of games isn't exactly slowing down. I'm a male and I am passionate about games, but I will admit that I wouldn't mind seeing more variety including games that actually show some depth of character both female and male.	/r/MensRights	24/03/11 05:00 AM
2	New feminist theory on why women don't do as good at math as mens. Guess who is to blame. I don't think that the theory of stereotype threat is necessarily feminist or new. I remember studying it in undergrad, and it had a lot of implications for all sorts of racial and gender stereotypes, including white men. Furthermore, it can have positive effects if the underlying stereotype is one of a positive nature. So, I wouldn't blame men for women doing poorly on these math tests since anything that would remind them that they're women and women are stereotypically worse at math would hav…	/r/MensRights	01/02/11 09:00 AM
3	r/mensrights, I have a question regarding protecting the identity of the accused in rape cases. These are my thoughts exactly. Prior bad acts are generally inadmissible in criminal court, but we make an exception in rape cases because a small subset of accused rapists are serial criminals. I think that neither party should have any of their personal details disclosed or published until the case has been completely adjudicated. That way each case can stand on its own evidence, and afterward prior victims of either party can step forward for their own day in court.	/r/MensRights	19/01/11 05:14 AM
1	Black woman who insists that providing evidence of her statements is unnecessary, because those standards of evidence are "eurocentric" and created by white men[xpost from /r/philosophy] Same here. I almost lost it 2 minutes in when she was going on about how "some people" want you to be able to "back up" what you say with things like "facts" or "statistics."	/r/MensRights	22/12/10 09:59 PM
1	Husband's a nurse, and I'm pissed on his behalf. Men =/= child molesters. I'm really ignorant in the world of infant care; how old does a kid have to be to qualify for most daycares? Also FMLA mandates 12 weeks of unpaid leave so where does your 6 weeks keep coming from? I totally agree that this unpaid leave is deficient, even at 12 weeks. I haven't read up much on international standards, but I believe it's customary to give closer to 20 weeks and oftentimes that paid leave at least partially.	/r/MensRights	13/12/10 02:01 AM
1	SCOTUS to hear child support contempt case: Turner V Price The major hurdle in this case is as Ma99ie points out, civil contempt proceedings aren't classified as criminal proceedings. This is essentially an end run around due process since there is no explicit guarantee of a right to counsel in civil proceedings in the Constitution. The 6th amendment right to counsel only applies to criminal cases. And, even then the court can legally refuse to appoint counsel as long as they don't incarcerate you at the end. That means if the choice of penalties is bet…	/r/MensRights	13/12/10 01:31 AM
0	List of Rights that are being denied to Western Women that Feminists are fighting for. look at Walmart admitting they pay their female employees more I'd appreciate a citation here since last I knew the Supreme Court just granted Cert to decide class-status in the largest class-action employment discrimination case in history. Said discrimination was actually against women. I'll be shocked if the class action survives the conservative Roberts court, but as far as I know the case is still out there. And I maintain that it's not a matter of corporate culture. It's a matter of the ac…	/r/MensRights	10/12/10 07:18 PM
0	List of Rights that are being denied to Western Women that Feminists are fighting for. I'm afraid my initial point has gotten lost at this juncture. I set out to show that men couldn't be fired for taking their federally mandated leave (which hasn't actually been refuted). You pointed out that women are better at "rallying the troops" though I'm not sure how much that matters in an employment investigation. And at this point we're debating something else entirely and that's whether or not men "feel" that they can or are able to take that leave because of some sort of external pres…	/r/MensRights	10/12/10 07:55 AM
0	List of Rights that are being denied to Western Women that Feminists are fighting for. The gap between childcare use is significantly smaller (6%) which is what the post that started this discussion was about. I think that the 16% gap is an indication that significantly more women use the time for either personal medical needs or to take care of sick family members. Now that might be a societal norm that perhaps needs addressing, but it wasn't what the original post was talking about. Furthermore you make assumptions that I haven't seen backed up. Assuming that FMLA somehow benefi…	/r/MensRights	10/12/10 04:52 AM
0	List of Rights that are being denied to Western Women that Feminists are fighting for. I'm honestly not really sure what your point is. You're saying that women are what, more sympathetic, more able to get public outcry for some sort of wrongdoing, what? I'm not really sure I can disagree on that point, but on this issue I don't think it really matters. My point was that there's a gender neutral law that seems to be getting used fairly evenly. I mean a split of 58% to 42% isn't too bad in my mind, but feel free to disagree. And as for specifically for childcare leave the split is …	/r/MensRights	10/12/10 03:23 AM
0	List of Rights that are being denied to Western Women that Feminists are fighting for. 49 states are employment at will. Yes employers can fire you for a pretextual reason. Yes you would have to sue them and at least persuade the jury that the real reason you were fired was because you exercised a federally mandated right. At which point you'd be eligible for damages including attorneys fees. However, I'm not really sure what made my previous post worthy of downvotes. Nothing I actually said was untrue, unless you count my statement "you can't be fired." Which legally is true, and…	/r/MensRights	09/12/10 08:55 PM
4	List of Rights that are being denied to Western Women that Feminists are fighting for. FMLA provides for 12 unpaid weeks of leave per year for a number of things including the birth, adoption, or placing of a foster child. It's available to either parent equally. It's generally seen as weaker than comparable laws in other countries that usually give paid leave and often a longer time period.	/r/MensRights	09/12/10 07:17 PM
-1	List of Rights that are being denied to Western Women that Feminists are fighting for. I'm pretty sure that you can't be fired for exercising your rights under federal law. I'm not sure that FMLA has an anti-retaliatory provision specifically, but I'm pretty sure that it would violate state law if nothing else. The torts of retaliatory discharge or wrongful termination would probably be options.	/r/MensRights	09/12/10 07:15 PM
1	Using an "Order of Protection" for extortion. IANAL, but many states have Temporary Restraining Orders that can be given without a hearing that you'd even have to be present for. Granted they're generally short lived, but they can be used to help secure a longer lasting order. If she files for a full order of protection there'd have to be a hearing that you got served for and whatnot. My advice, talk to a lawyer, get certified copies of the texts from your phone company, and look into divorce.	/r/MensRights	21/11/10 08:22 AM
42	Feminist decries the use of DNA testing Wasn't this on the front page like... a week ago? Also this is just one woman's opinion. Most of the women over at r/feminism also thought this author was pretty much completely wrong.	/r/MensRights	09/11/10 12:55 AM
1	Penalty for False Rape and Sexual Assault Accusations I think that there are at least one major distinction we want to draw. There's a huge difference between an accuser who knowingly makes a false accusation, and one who makes an accusation that they believe is true but the defendant is found not guilty for whatever reason including actual innocence. In the first case the accuser should face serious criminal (2+ years in jail minimum) and civil penalties ($100,000+ actual damages and extensive punitives) as well as making a public apology and admi…	/r/MensRights	05/11/10 12:05 AM
8	DNA testing disempowers women? I came to post this same point. I didn't see a comment in r/feminisms that supported this article. The gamut ran from "DNA tests aren't anti-feminist, and it's wrong to devalue true fathers like that" to "the article is a load of shit." Glad we can all unite in our believe that Melanie McDonagh got this way off the mark.	/r/MensRights	30/10/10 05:37 AM
3	This is the face of a false rape accuser Agreed. There was no claim of rape anywhere in there.	/r/MensRights	28/10/10 03:38 AM
1	Why Young Women Should Understand "Opportunity Cost," Choose Good Men, and Marry Young The people I know seem to follow what they're role-modeled by their parents as far as marriage practices go. My parents were 27 and 29 when they got married, and I know for a fact that I won't be married anytime before I'm 25 (I'm 23). While my friends whose parents were married at 18-24 are all engaged and/or married by age 23-24. It also seems to me that people who have divorced parents are more likely to divorce. Of course, all of this is anecdotal, but it seems that there is some "teaching" …	/r/MensRights	26/10/10 04:18 PM