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Those scummy Independents and their partisan politics!
/r/MensRights29/08/15 04:33 AM
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More significantly it looks to me like the 28% number comes from a poll that restricted answers to yes or no, although it's not made certain. While the 18% poll gives you the choice of yes, no, not sure and refusal. If you compare the 18% yes to the 52% no in that poll, you get about 26% yes, which is just about what it was 2 years ago.
/r/MensRights29/05/15 07:04 PM
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This hashtag really conflicts with my campaign to express gratitude to Dr. Su for the successful operation, I am so much more confident in myself now.
/r/MensRights15/05/15 03:19 PM
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Really should post to /r/kotakuinaction and /r/gamerghazi , you know, to spread the word.
/r/MensRights03/04/15 07:21 AM
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I think it's brilliant, wink wink wink wink wink
/r/MensRights03/04/15 12:32 AM
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Doesn't the article argue against the quoted text? I'm a little confused what you two are debating. Good article anyway, I skimmed it and it seems to avoid the fallacies that feminists and MRAs both fall into on this subject.
/r/MensRights22/01/15 06:41 AM
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I could not disagree more with the STEM arguments. The idea that women are being encouraged to ignore their "natural needs and wants" by doing STEM is doing just what the article argues against. There's no evidence that women are at a significant natural disadvantage in STEM skills that corresponds to the degree of a gender gap in that field. It is merely assumed that because the gender gap exists that it is "natural." It is then assumed that women are more likely to drop out of STEM fields beca…
/r/MensRights22/11/14 11:13 AM
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Premise: A is not necessarily caused by B. Premise: A could be caused by C. Supporting Evidence: ? Conclusion: A is caused by C, not B.
/r/MensRights09/10/14 09:20 PM
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Yeah I clicked back after the same line.
/r/MensRights02/08/14 04:41 PM
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Nothing just a tongue in cheek reference to silly made up labels. Obviously we don't have a blank slate and I think they use that more with gender roles and weird sex stuff than academic aptitude. But you all think the slate has been chiseled far more than I do regarding preinclinations for stem.
/r/MensRights01/08/14 03:53 AM
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I disagree, he acknowledged the studies, gave more detail on them than I usually see, and moved on with competing studies. He didn't ignore them at all, I just think they are more valuable than he does, but that's my opinion and it'd take way too damn long to go looking up every study on the subject. can't we account for individual choice here too? Again, I'm not dismissing the idea as women choosing, but...really...what is the aim of all of this? What is the goal? The goal of getting women into…
/r/MensRights01/08/14 02:24 AM
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I don't doubt that we have biological differences that influence even our career choices, but that doesn't mean they aren't compounded by social factors. It could be that in a magical social vacuum only 30% of women would do computer science as a major, but for reals it's only 20% or so. I think it's worth figuring out what is causing the remaining deficit and seeing if it's feasible to address it. I've seen that documentary but it's been a few years I'll have to re-watch it. And I'm not sure wh…
/r/MensRights01/08/14 02:06 AM
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Bullshit. Check out the incentives you talk about a sentence later, it's not barring, but it may be discouraging. In addition, check out the bias in grades boys receive compared to girls in early education; you bet'cher ass that doing poorly in grade school just because you are a boy is going to have ramifications later in life, hell, you made the same claim about girls already. I'm not saying the under representation of men in college as a whole is not a problem, I'm saying it is a problem; sim…
/r/MensRights01/08/14 01:59 AM
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There's nothing barring men from going to college as often as women in general either, but that doesn't mean its a non-problem. The women only incentives are helpful but only do so much, they don't nurture an interest in stem in girls before college, at least not directly. I'm not going to pretend to have all the answers but I think its just a little defeatist to be like "well we tried looks like women are just naturally against stem."
/r/MensRights31/07/14 11:31 PM
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Yes it's not all sexism (though I think he undervalued studies that show there is a degree of bias against women), but I don't agree with how this issue is usually just dismissed as women making choices so it's okay as it is - and if you think otherwise you're telling women what to do you arrogant femocommunist! (ok I've never heard anyone called that before) Women's choices are influenced by their upbringing like everyone elses, and they can be encouraged to see STEM as a more attractive opport…
/r/MensRights31/07/14 10:40 PM
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I never said nor implied they weren't filtered as well. Even with "affirmative action" however, women are filtered more (less encouragement to do math, far more likely to avoid post-grad for family, etc.). Your anecdotes contradict a study mentioned in the article you just linked which more or less implies that women are generally even better than they are perceived to be on paper. They also contradict the views of the APS and the (former chair of Harvard physics)[http://www.aas.org/cswa/status/…
/r/MensRights23/07/14 02:40 AM
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Something about biological determinism or some such - it's mentioned in your article in the OP.
/r/MensRights21/07/14 02:59 PM
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Like most physicists and physics students my wife is a huge Feynman admirer, and has a similarly nuanced view as the blogger (hers is probably more forgiving, given his first wife's tragic death). It's surprising that there was any issue taken with this particular blog post, and I suspect most of the cause for the bloggers dismissal is probably related to his other post that sounds far more controversial.
/r/MensRights21/07/14 04:20 AM
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I strongly disagree, female physics faculty are often excellent due to the natural filtering that occurs on the path to a PhD and through postdocs affecting them even more, only the most dedicated generally make it through.
/r/MensRights21/07/14 04:14 AM
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Well /r/Feminism ripped this statistic apart already, and the study itself is not available on the internets from what I've seen, so I'd say it's pretty meaningless.
/r/MensRights20/07/14 06:47 AM
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oh fuck, you just got called out /r/mensrights
/r/MensRights19/07/14 05:52 AM
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Fun fact: he was a star player on the MIT hoop-and-stick team, where he was affectionately nicknamed B-Tuck.
/r/MensRights19/07/14 05:49 AM
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Yeah but if we don't say they're running amok then we can't justify obstructing them. If it weren't for the obstructing much amok would be run upon.
/r/MensRights19/07/14 05:45 AM
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Oh shit it's gonna be a Marx-off.
/r/MensRights19/07/14 05:42 AM
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For one, the problem is not intractable, women have been increasing their presence in STEM fields in the last few decades. And just because one approach is not completely successful, does not mean "well I guess women's brains naturally just aren't so good at math." There are a ton of "nurture" effects that shape who we are and what we like and what we do well. "Opportunity" is vague, does someone who is raised in Mogadishu have the same opportunity to become successful as someone raised in Minne…
/r/MensRights12/07/14 04:30 AM
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Yes it's the World Bank so it's a very general approach, but at least you were able to take from it that there is a feedback effect, though you don't see it as problematic, at least not enough for "forcible intervention." One point of encouraging (not forcing), in this case, women into STEM fields is to weaken that feedback effect. Not for that specific woman who benefits from the scholarship or whatever, but for those who may follow her.
/r/MensRights12/07/14 04:20 AM
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That's clearly what I'm saying and not at all a straw man of snark +2. I think it's reasonable to care why women are less likely to be interested in an incredibly important skill like mathematics, beyond just saying "well they just don't like it, their brains are a third the size of a man's. It's science." Ok, that's a straw man too - but you get the point, it's not good enough to just say they're naturally averse to it and leave it at that.
/r/MensRights12/07/14 03:45 AM
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They are the exception, not the rule, and probably exceptional students. My wife's been doing STEM in academia for almost a decade now, and very few students receive that kind of treatment unless they are already very bright. Generally you have to already have an interest in the field to even know about such specific scholarships, much less be awarded it. You could argue that these scholarships encourage students to stick with programs they find they don't enjoy - but that goes for all program s…
/r/MensRights12/07/14 03:36 AM
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That is possible, but rather than just an opinion, is there evidence behind that? http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2012/Resources/7778105-1299699968583/7786210-1315936222006/chapter-5.pdf pages 230-240 are most relevant. Well that is what his research produced. It may be flawed, but again just attacking it as counter to a desired result isn't a good practice. The problem isn't that women are more likely to hate math, it's that he suggests they just do as if there's nothing that can or sh…
/r/MensRights11/07/14 09:31 PM
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This is such a horseshit oversimplification. It's based on the false assumption that there are no negative effects of having highly segregated career paths. And that women's ladybrains just totally hate math. Then goes on to some straw man about how giving women a few scholarships is akin to forcing women to work in fields they don't want to because feminism. It would also be nice if men were more encouraged to do a field like nursing, which while it requires schooling, does not require you to b…
/r/MensRights11/07/14 08:52 PM
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ouch
/r/MensRights11/07/14 08:06 PM
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It's presumptuous to assume they were being particularly risky, even if most of the time the situation caused by poor use of contraception. If you get into a car accident, we don't assume without further knowledge you were doing anything more risky than driving a car. Regardless, insurance covers lots of risky behaviors. I got a friend climbing a fucking volcano next week, his insurance is covering any injuries. So if a lady wants to get it on but messes up the contraception that seems like a ba…
/r/MensRights01/07/14 06:49 PM
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That's a bit of an unfair argument, women don't choose to have more expensive health care. Their parts are just higher maintenance than ours, especially during fertile years.
/r/MensRights01/07/14 06:25 PM
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Not exactly, but they are more in the spirit of universal health care and government regulation/spending that would make conservative and libertarians head's spin if enacted here.
/r/MensRights01/07/14 06:23 PM
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It's not that simple, usually the woman isn't sure if the contraception method worked, and is more likely to take a chance if it costs a lot of money to do anything about it.
/r/MensRights01/07/14 06:15 PM
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From what I read, the court's decision does not limit it to morning after pills, i.e. Hobby Lobby can deny any contraception if it wants to (they choose not to deny all, but claimed the ability to if they so desire). Please correct me if I misinterpreted it.
/r/MensRights01/07/14 05:51 PM
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Actually, it kind of does. The "least restrictive" requirement asks if the government can achieve their compelling interest in a non-discriminatory manner. The government admits it can, because it provides a non-discriminatory option for nonprofits. By this logic, the government has established a least restrictive precedent that applies to every possible conflict of this sort because they "can" just pay for it themselves because they chose to this one time with this one group. The court tries to…
/r/MensRights01/07/14 05:47 PM
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If women want to use those contraceptives, they have to pay for them on their own. How does this violate their rights? It doesn't violate their rights. That's not what this case was about. Plus, Hobby Lobby still has to pay for 14 of the 18 contraceptives, so they're still getting free contraceptives from somebody else's money. No, Hobby Lobby only challenged the 4 of them - the others they elected not to challenge directly, but they argued that their case would apply to all contraceptives if th…
/r/MensRights01/07/14 05:14 PM
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The court didn't really address why it doesn't apply to a religious for-profit refusing to pay for vaccines or for women to be paid equally on religious grounds. Kennedy implied it only applies to this specific circumstance but I never saw any compelling argument to back that up, and can see how a company could easily use this case to refuse paying for vaccines. And there is a difference between non-profit religious organization that serves a community of believers and a for-profit commercial en…
/r/MensRights01/07/14 04:52 PM
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I think that's overstated, and that brain differences mainly contribute to a sort of snowball effect where girls realize they are slightly worse at math and then internalize and socialize it over time creating a vast gender difference where only a slight one existed initially. In fact in wealthy SE Asian countries there is virtually no gender gap in math at all.
/r/MensRights01/07/14 05:16 AM
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There's no need to force anything. But shouldn't we ask why women aren't as good at math? It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem (are women bad at math thus hate it, or do they hate it thus are bad at math), but I think it's important to address what leads women to avoid mathy fields. Just today my wife, a physics grad student, was giving feedback to women undergrads doing presentations in some of the more female-dominated sciences. The undergrads all started having that "ugh I hate math!" conv…
/r/MensRights01/07/14 03:50 AM
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If we accept her arguments and sources, what's her point? What are the implications of establishing that women tend to prefer hard sciences less than men? That we should say "no problems here" and move on? It just seems like some straw feminism "it's the patriarchy" stuff was debunked, as if it's difficult. Isn't there a concern among this sub-reddit's followers that men are increasingly under-represented in primary and secondary education? Is that not little more than due to gender preferences?…
/r/MensRights01/07/14 03:18 AM
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Could you link to what you're basing the 12 month vs. lifetime discrepancy on if you get a chance?
/r/MensRights23/06/14 04:57 PM
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I think /u/Steampunk_Moustache is referring specifically to the extreme end of Munchausen by proxy , which is overwhelming a female perpetrated abuse. Of course, men abuse and kill their children as well, which is your point, but /u/Steampunk_Moustache is not making the claim that they don't. However, I don't agree with his implication (that I perceived, at least) that dads are somehow not as bad because they kill their kids for different reasons.
/r/MensRights19/06/14 05:05 PM
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Men commit the vast majority of suicides. "So stop killing yourselves."
/r/MensRights19/06/14 04:53 PM
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I guess my only question is if there was evidence that the dude was significantly less drunk than the girl. I didn't see anything that indicated the levels of intoxication either way, but could have missed something. It seems like a rather crucial detail though.
/r/MensRights05/06/14 04:37 PM
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This is such an overstated, slippery slope argument. These kinds of laws are to some extent already in the books, even in red states. If someone had the willpower and ability to abuse them they could have, yet if anything the opposite has happened: they are hardly enforced (as gun advocates frequently like to point out).
/r/MensRights28/05/14 03:23 AM
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I think women are significantly more likely to face resentment from their peers for being in a position of authority, even temporarily. But if I wanted to come up with the most counterproductive way to address this issue this would probably be it.
/r/MensRights11/03/14 01:43 PM
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I'm sure there's a lot of male nurses that would rather be fishing.
/r/MensRights01/01/14 09:38 PM
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Had some experiences similar to this and know it's not always very helpful when people just say "get out of it" like you didn't think of that. You still care about her and are probably worried about her despite what she did to you. In your case, it sounds like her parents will support her through this, which you can use to your advantage to keep yourself separated for a few days while you clear your mind. After a few days of "out of sight, out of mind" it will be easier to make the right call, a…
/r/MensRights05/05/13 02:09 PM
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That's so messed up I just want to rationalize it as being girls too dumb to cognitively process and then discard some fucked up evolutionary sexual attraction to attractive hyper-aggressive men only a few women have. I've seen similar things happen to murderers in prison and the women who do it are almost always astoundingly stupid, so please let it just be that.
/r/MensRights03/05/13 09:48 PM
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Pretty sure it's a conservative anti-feminist making this claim. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerned_Women_for_America
/r/MensRights03/05/13 09:27 PM
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Unfortunately we only have two real parties, so we have to take the bad with the good. It seems a lot easier to gradually isolate the crazier feminist voices than to abandon every other ideal we have and switch teams.
/r/MensRights19/04/13 12:10 AM
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I like how the basic premise is "we're definitely right and you're wrong, so your input is unnecessary and distracting". I mean it's kind of logical in it's own special way.
/r/MensRights18/04/13 11:59 PM
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So I think you've kind of answered you own question as to why us liberals that are sympathetic toward MRAs don't want to be on either side of the coin that is feminists on one side and conservatives on the other. Actually I can't even tell quite what ideology you're arguing from, but I am basically saying we don't want to trade one version of wrong with another version of (in our opinion) wrong.
/r/MensRights18/04/13 11:48 PM
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