sievebrain Archive

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0	Number of white male teachers falls by 20% in just ten years, sparking fears of lack of role models - Research shows the profession is becoming 'increasingly female-dominated' I read your comment and felt happy. At last, some encouragement for men like me to go into other careers like teaching? Then I looked at the website. It isn't to get men in teaching, it's to get "men of color" into teaching. White men are of no relevance to them. What a shock.	/r/MensRights	20/10/20 11:31 AM
3	What are the arguments against "because only a small percentage of sexual assault allegations are false, it should be guilty until proven innocent"? No, but the relevant sample here is "women who file rape accusations" which is a tiny subset of all women.	/r/MensRights	20/10/20 11:21 AM
1	What are the arguments against "because only a small percentage of sexual assault allegations are false, it should be guilty until proven innocent"? Feminists lie about this topic all the time, sorry. Academia and government are flooded with them so you have to double check everything. Studies of this that aren't agenda driven are very rare. They do exist but most are written by people who go in with pre-existing beliefs, like "women don't lie about rape" and then try to build a case for that belief, making them worthless. So you've just got to read them carefully to see if they're written in a manipulative way. Example 1: The research you l…	/r/MensRights	20/10/20 11:17 AM
1	Gender gap in UK degree subjects doubles in eight years, UCAS (UK'S national uni application system) study finds. This gap is GROWING and measures (some currently passing) to address gender discrepancies in courses are ONLY focusing on the very very few subjects that women are in fewer numbers in Mostly biological sciences but they try hard elsewhere (e.g. computer science).	/r/MensRights	05/10/20 01:13 PM
2	Isn’t it always weird that there’s always a “girls who code” club at any school and no “guys who code” club as well Summer camp vs clubs. If it's a more formalised programme where it actively advertises what it will teach, then there will probably be teaching, it'd be false advertising if not. When you get less formal social events and clubs advertised as "<tech> for women" it's virtually always about feminism. Heck I have an ex-girlfriend who actually did learn to code (or tried at least), and she went to a "Ruby on Rails for Girls" event. She said it was 80% about feminism and never went back. This sort of …	/r/MensRights	22/09/20 07:54 AM
1	Girlfriend got mad at ME because I took down a sexist decoration from the wall. Somehow I'm the bad guy? Er, mental illness is by definition something that's wrong with someone. That's why it's called an illness! If it wasn't something that's wrong with someone it'd just be a personality quirk or some other term would be used. Now, I don't believe most feminists have mental illnesses. People seem to be cheapening that term quite dramatically. Many feminists have deeply unpleasant personalities caused by their frequent delusions of being oppressed/victimised etc despite overwhelming evidence to the …	/r/MensRights	22/09/20 07:49 AM
1	Google India only selected girls for internships \| Sexism - Codeforces "Improve"	/r/MensRights	22/09/20 07:43 AM
1	She faked her own rape in order to convince her husband they needed to move to a new house. She was also a psychologist at a prison. Believe all women. I'm not sure that's logically valid. The police want to find true crimes, especially for something as politicised as rape. If they think it's real they'll gather evidence and forward to prosecutors. If they don't they'll drop the case early. The police officer estimates are for all cases they see, that is, all cases that walk through the door and it's not that they feel 50% of cases are 'unresolvable' but rather that 50% are false accusations. There is quite a bit of research into this with data…	/r/MensRights	27/05/20 01:24 PM
5	She faked her own rape in order to convince her husband they needed to move to a new house. She was also a psychologist at a prison. Believe all women. Yes that's a key point, direct stats on false accusations aren't really usable for that reason, it's hardly ever prosecuted. However it can be inferred from looking at the pipeline of rape cases and why such a small number result in successful conviction. It's because a lot of them turn out to be false!	/r/MensRights	26/05/20 07:09 PM
5	She faked her own rape in order to convince her husband they needed to move to a new house. She was also a psychologist at a prison. Believe all women. Well, not really. We can strongly infer in many cases by the decision not to prosecute. Some years ago I went on a bit of a reading bender on these issues. The number is pretty staggering. The one that made the deepest impression is that when anonymously asked to estimate how many rape reports are false, police officers usually state about 50% or more are. That's their intuition based on how many cases fall apart when questioned, when DNA evidence proves the accusation was false, when the women …	/r/MensRights	26/05/20 07:06 PM
3	She faked her own rape in order to convince her husband they needed to move to a new house. She was also a psychologist at a prison. Believe all women. The figure in question is not dna evidence missing - read it again. It's where dna evidence was submitted and rules out the prime suspect, i.e. there was a false accusation.	/r/MensRights	26/05/20 06:56 PM
13	She faked her own rape in order to convince her husband they needed to move to a new house. She was also a psychologist at a prison. Believe all women. Eh? I'm pretty sure it is a crime! Just because it's often not prosecuted, doesn't mean it's not a crime.	/r/MensRights	26/05/20 05:52 PM
53	She faked her own rape in order to convince her husband they needed to move to a new house. She was also a psychologist at a prison. Believe all women. I think that figure can't be correct, wasn't it the FBI figures that showed about 10% of all cases were ruled out by DNA tests at the lab? Perhaps over time the nature of false complaints have changed as people realise they'll get caught by DNA evidence. But it'd impose a rough lower bound - it can't be lower than the number ruled out by DNA, but it can be a lot higher.	/r/MensRights	26/05/20 01:35 PM
3	I was reprimanded by HR after coworker complained that I gave her a bad annual review. Yes. Holy shit, the op is doing himself in big time. I once worked for a Californian company as an engineer, and was in a similar situation. We had a well functioning team (with women). One day a new woman joins. She's unlike the others - a toxic combination of very ambitious, very stupid and very dishonest. We discover she keeps lying about basic, easily checkable things like the outputs of database queries. Often we'd catch this because the lie was so implausible. She did little work, what lit…	/r/MensRights	11/03/20 07:02 PM
4	Why are Men’s Rights attracting so little support? Speaking for myself: I think a lot of men don't know it exists as a phenomenon at all. People learn about things through the media. The media is almost 100% dominated by feminists. Even nominally conservative publications e.g. the Telegraph frequently assign any story related to men's rights to feminist women to write about or devote massive amounts of time and space to feminist stories whilst ignoring men's rights issues entirely. Meanwhile the very few really conservative outlets that exist (I…	/r/MensRights	26/02/20 07:09 PM
2	r/AmITheAsshole is unbelievably biased towards women. This is the first time I've heard women be described as not socialist. Aren't they usually more likely to vote left wing than men?	/r/MensRights	19/10/19 04:36 PM
1	Fragile Femininity You'd be surprised. ST is one of the sci-fi shows most popular with women. My aunt used to love it, and my ex girlfriend used to insist that we watched TNG together before going to sleep, she loved it too. Most of the episodes from TNG forward are very progressive, collectivist and emotion-oriented stuff. I mean this is a show in which the bridge has the captain, the first officer and a female psychotherapist sitting next to each other, literally, Counseller Troi (an empath who can feel emotions…	/r/MensRights	08/08/19 05:24 PM
1	Where are all the men? Anecdote but, I was for a few years in a large group of friends, maybe 7-10 of us would go out multiple times a week together. It was really nice, I have fond memories of this time. Eventually the group settled down (two with each other) and drifted apart. But one thing that stuck with me from that experience is that most of the girls got into massive dramas with each other, and a few ended up hating each other or refusing to talk to each other (usually making up after a while). None of the men …	/r/MensRights	08/08/19 05:06 PM
2	Where are all the men? Why?? We're talking about people who would like to be in a couple, here. Why would you discourage that? There are plenty of great women out there who are fair minded, honest, not feminists and who want a strong and happy man by their side. I'm fortunate enough to have one as my girlfriend, and have had others like that in prior relationships too. They exist. It's silly to write off all women, that's not what /r/mensrights is about, honestly I'm not sure dating advice is either really. But you ha…	/r/MensRights	08/08/19 04:56 PM
2	What can researchers do to make participation in social science research more appealing to men? OK, if you're funding your research yourself then fair enough. But, I don't understand your other point. Since when do professors not get paid to write papers? They do research and get grant money, no? Teaching is only one of their jobs. And the studies you're responding to, which are apparently numerous (!), were certainly not self funded! They were taxpayer funded. Now by all means, explore the nature of brotherhood on your own dime. But you came here to ask a question, or really to sort of im…	/r/MensRights	17/07/19 09:46 PM
2	What can researchers do to make participation in social science research more appealing to men? I am responding to the problem of the friendship literature constantly comparing brotherhood to sisterhood and seeing which one is "best". This seems like a huge part of your problem. I mean, just step back here for a moment. What kind of research field tries to figure out if brotherhood or sisterhood is "best"? In the exceptionally unlikely event that a meaningful answer is determined, what exactly is anyone meant to do with that? Abort their second child if it's the wrong gender? Has anyone th…	/r/MensRights	17/07/19 08:41 PM
1	Female BBC manager publicly declines promotion over pay inequality \| After she threw a public tantrum, it's revealed that the male manager had several years more experience than her, justifying the difference in pay. The BBC is standing firm for once - good for them! What's up with the name Karen?	/r/MensRights	26/05/19 05:46 PM
2	Quillette publishes article demonizing male sexuality and portraying men as predatory creeps. Proof that even anti-PC media cannot escape the misandry Does this article "demonize male sexuality", really? It starts out by saying that these wierd "wokeshops" are basically like lap dancing clubs, except lap dancing clubs are more honest. I didn't get the sense the author thinks lap dancing clubs are terrible, more that they're annoyed at the hypocrisy of these events engaging in lots of intellectual-sounding but empty waffle to hide the fact they're basically the same thing, but for lefty wokey types who'd never be seen dead in an oppressive patr…	/r/MensRights	17/05/19 01:58 PM
1	Rape victims must hand phones to police or face investigations being dropped under new scheme \| Naturally feminists are protesting against this new measure intended to prevent innocent men being wrongly prosecuted in the UK. Well the issue is that rape is a he-said she-said type crime almost always - you can't really know what happened, but the punishment is severe enough that the standard is "beyond all reasonable doubt". In such a case if the woman is enthusiastic in a text that immediately creates reasonable doubt and thus no chance of a rape conviction, when the system is working. If there's strong evidence in the opposite direction then sure, it has to be weighed up. But there rarely is. The scary thing is to p…	/r/MensRights	29/04/19 10:55 PM
5	Winchester University scraps talk after online backlash - more than 700 people signed a petition calling on the university to drop the talk by Justice for Men and Boys party leader Mike Buchanan, entitled ‘Equal rights for men and women’ Great job Winchester University. Thanks for getting the existence of this party into the national news, I had no idea there was a party for men and boys - now I know who to donate to!	/r/MensRights	28/02/19 03:44 PM
1	Advertisement in Sheffield "All men are Dangerous" I'm sure they'll wriggle out of it but there's no way that ad "challenges stereotypes". It just asserts a negative stereotype as a fact that applies to literally all men. But thanks for making the complaint!	/r/MensRights	22/02/19 04:47 PM
2	Advertisement in Sheffield "All men are Dangerous" Or the advertising standards authority? They've been running their own as campaigns lately claiming they uphold truth in advertising. Well, this claim is clearly false, so the creators should get fined.	/r/MensRights	22/02/19 08:13 AM
1	What are conservatives waiting for? Repeal this ridiculous Equality Act And a man, it seems. Writing on conservative woman. Why is it a man who has to point this out?	/r/MensRights	15/02/19 04:22 PM
2	'False rape' cases soar in Capital as number of acquittals hits 78 per cent (2014) This is an article about India, not the UK, despite appearing in the Daily Mail.	/r/MensRights	31/01/19 10:41 AM
1	Thanks to all the women going into STEM, the future of technology is in good hands! Yes obviously they were coursework, the projects say that in their READMEs and she's being advertised as a student on the billboard. I think this will be my last reply because you're engaged in serious goalpost shifting now. You started by implying she's a bad representative for women in tech (which is irrelevant to the ad anyway) because she posts on Instagram and - you speculated - may not have a GitHub account. This speculation was false: although contributing open source code is optional for…	/r/MensRights	28/01/19 09:42 PM
1	Thanks to all the women going into STEM, the future of technology is in good hands! Er, yes. Did you? https://github.com/aleenawatson/SLIC_superpixels/commits/master https://github.com/aleenawatson/pg_performance/commits/master In those two projects virtually all the commits came from her. Look, I don't know why you're going down this path. You can disagree with her politically and culturally without needing to falsely insinuate she's a faker. This is just making you look as foolish as feminists do when they talk about the gender pay gap now. This girl is a female CS grad who k…	/r/MensRights	28/01/19 09:32 PM
1	Thanks to all the women going into STEM, the future of technology is in good hands! Dude, I'm all for calling out hypocrisy but this sort of stuff doesn't help. Firstly, you can do yoga and be a computer scientist at the same time you know. You can even look good on Instagram. Secondly, it takes about two seconds to discover she does have a GitHub account with some actual serious code in it, including machine learning, Postgres performance debugging and image processing. And of course many skilled programmers don't upload stuff to GitHub at all, so that's a questionable metric …	/r/MensRights	28/01/19 09:26 PM
1	An infamous man-hating feminist writer lost her job today when the Huffington Post closed their opinion section. Good. There will be a bit less misandry published by the media tomorrow. Which areas? I practically live in Starbucks (albeit not in the USA) and the staff have always been wonderful, it's one of the reasons I like going there.	/r/MensRights	27/01/19 12:29 PM
1	Presumably there will also be all-female Refuse-Collector and Construction-Worker classes run by the UK Government as well? Probably the basics of hacking - exploits, how they work, UNIX sysadmin skills, TCP/IP networking, etc.	/r/MensRights	18/01/19 08:02 AM
3	Gillette responds to the controversy (plus the author takes shots at men) Amazing. According to Fast Company’s consultation with social media analytics provider Sprout Social, the online response to the ad has been mostly positive. Between January 14 and 16, 63% of the 645,000 tweets about @Gillette have been positive, and 94% of the 246,000 tweets hashtagged #TheBestMenCanBe have been positive. And yet every single top comment on YouTube is negative. How is this possible? Do Twitter users not post on YouTube and vice-versa? I went and searched Twitter for #GilletteAd…	/r/MensRights	17/01/19 10:44 PM
7	This article sums up why so many men are angry about Gillette's ad perfectly, in my view it should be spread far and wide and used to rebut any of the usual "if you're upset, you're part of the problem" bullshit On the YT comments people are claiming it was posted by a user named peanut. So, anonymous YouTube user. YT comments win again!	/r/MensRights	17/01/19 10:25 PM
2	Presumably there will also be all-female Refuse-Collector and Construction-Worker classes run by the UK Government as well? Both. SIGINT is based on cable taps, hacking, signals interception, stuff like that. Men talk with bots on porn sites, do you really think you need months of training to learn how to catfish? This course is trying to get women to learn technical skills, but I don't think you can learn what it takes to be a good hacker off a course whether you're a man or woman.	/r/MensRights	17/01/19 10:21 PM
1	The Gillette commercial is a calculated strategy that highlights female privilege Yeah this shit is painful. Unfortunately they aren't dropping feminist attitudes, just hiding them. I went on a date with a girl. Very pretty eastern European, who aren't normally into all that stuff. They're happy to be feminine which is one reason I like them. Unfortunately this one had spent a decade in America. Anyway in our first date the conversation got pretty serious pretty fast, she's at the age where she doesn't want to mess around. She asked what I'm looking for, what I really like in…	/r/MensRights	17/01/19 08:33 PM
2	The Gillette commercial is a calculated strategy that highlights female privilege It's not any of that. Feminism is a movement that tells its adherents they are morally virtuous and better than other people. That's why it's attractive to women, but men who ally themselves are told the same thing (sorta mixed messages). It's not feminism specific of course, it's the whole identity politics/leftist agenda - believe these things and you are a good person. Disbelieve and you're bad. Daily life offers most people very little opportunity to feel good about themselves. You could don…	/r/MensRights	17/01/19 08:23 PM
3	Presumably there will also be all-female Refuse-Collector and Construction-Worker classes run by the UK Government as well? I don't think pretending to be interested in a bloke online is the kind of "cyber skills" training course GCHQ has in mind.	/r/MensRights	17/01/19 08:13 PM
2	Are young men in America scared? "When the #MeToo movement started a year ago, I thought it could only be a net gain. But too many mess-ups have happened. I think it's wrong that it has moved away from a legal court and into a court of public opinion," Well it's the BBC so written by feminist writers. But this video is good: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-45727652/brett-kavanaugh-ford-is-a-liar-trump-supporters It's a bunch of vox pops with people at a Trump rally being asked about Kavanaugh, false accusations, etc with as far as I can tell minimal editing or spin. It's just simple neutral questions and what they said in response. And damn, watching this video made me want to be a Trump supporter too. And it made me feel a lot bet…	/r/MensRights	05/10/18 08:20 PM
2	What men say about #MeToo a year after Weinstein This article isn't really about what men think. That would require polls or surveys of some sort. It's about what the selected friends and random picks of the journalist think, who oddly enough, all support #MeToo despite in some cases having had false allegations filed against them. Where are the men who think it's pure, unmitigated bullshit and the women in question should go to jail for making false claims? Oddly enough, they don't seem to exist in the world this journalist inhabits. Who is a…	/r/MensRights	05/10/18 08:08 PM
3	Why the Mens' Rights Movement Must Support Kavanaugh and Encourage All Elected Representatives to Support Him As Well How does he have "skeevy all over him" when the woman is quite obviously just trying to play politics? Why should he suffer any consequence of this sort of claim at all? If "someone said something happened 30+ years ago" is now sufficient to stop someone being appointed to the Supreme Court then the court itself may as well be abolished, because it is guaranteed that at that point, there will be a flood of complaints against anyone who is nominated regardless of their views. Nobody could ever be…	/r/MensRights	23/09/18 05:13 PM
1	Why the Mens' Rights Movement Must Support Kavanaugh and Encourage All Elected Representatives to Support Him As Well Indeed. At this point she should clearly be prosecuted, although I suppose it's hard to prosecute someone who hasn't actually filed a criminal charge and whose allegation isn't even illegal. Multiple witnesses have said she's lying, the entire claim is preposterous and clearly politically motivated, but I guess without any weighty libel/slander laws in the US there's not much to be done.	/r/MensRights	23/09/18 05:12 PM
2	r/menslib: Fact Checking False Rape Accusations and Why We Shouldn't Fear a False Rape Epidemic. This is a damningly stupid essay. It bugs me that there are men out there who might actually make these arguments. Citing the number of false accusations that end up in court is worthless, way too many cases where the woman was proven to be lying don't get prosecuted. How often do you read about the police bothering to prosecute, even in cases that are high profile enough to end up in court, collapse in public and embarrass them? It never happens. "Most experts" is a useless metric because most …	/r/MensRights	22/09/18 06:38 PM
5	UK: Jeremy Corbyn claims Labour are ‘the party of women' and will have more female than male MPs if he wins the next election Maybe - Labour's support is pretty hard core. It doesn't seem to matter what they do or say, a huge portion of the country views it as "always voted Labour, always will" or that voting for Corbyn makes them spiritually better people. And it's hard to tell whether the population of independent or conservative feminists that this very clear declaration of "we'll give you special perks" may attract, is bigger or smaller than the population that it'll turn off. I think the real benefit of Corbyn say…	/r/MensRights	22/09/18 06:20 PM
1	Teacher's nightmare after false assault charge This article is from 2001, so, yes	/r/MensRights	16/09/18 06:54 PM
2	Rain Dove: Asia Argento called me 'a monster' for turning over texts to police - "I gave this person the opportunity to be honest, and they chose not to be, and I didn’t want to be complicit, so I turned them in to the police," No it doesn't. Why are you treating the words slut and whore as if they mean exactly the same thing?	/r/MensRights	31/08/18 07:05 PM
2	Rain Dove: Asia Argento called me 'a monster' for turning over texts to police - "I gave this person the opportunity to be honest, and they chose not to be, and I didn’t want to be complicit, so I turned them in to the police," Whore's sell their bodies to get material wealth. Whatever Weinstein is or isn't, or wasn't doing that!	/r/MensRights	31/08/18 12:17 PM
1	Discrimination against men in the social sciences It's not so much that sociology got co-opted by feminism. What's happening in academia is wider than that. You should study the writings and talks of Jonathan Haight. He is a former social scientist himself and he gets to the core of the matter. What's actually happening isn't new. Throughout the 20th century the "soft" subjects in academia were overrun with Marxists and supporters of Stalin. This was true even long after the working classes and people outside the academy had figured out that th…	/r/MensRights	30/08/18 03:33 PM
10	Why do female movie remakes make me sad? Because nobody cares if James Bond is female - there are a gazillion movies with female characters in. Replacing an iconic man with a woman is being done for the signal it sends, as a message about the future. Same as why you may have felt sad on reading that a movie based on the true story of two hot air balloonists was being edited to replace one of the men with a woman - history was inconveniently male and "the future is female". You feel sad because you know this is another brick in the wall…	/r/MensRights	30/08/18 03:24 PM
1	Is #MeToo worsening the divide between men and women? \| Female CEO is concerned about false accusations against men and thinks #MeToo has gone too far. That's not quite correct. It's possible to know a rape complaint was maliciously false when the accuser admits it is. The studies I'm talking about look for police reports where either the police found on investigation strong evidence it was false (e.g. the accused had a strong alibi), or the woman admitted it was false, or both (often evidence of lying leads to a confession). The 40% false reporting figure is only cases where the woman admitted she lied. The higher figures tend to include cases…	/r/MensRights	20/08/18 02:32 PM
4	Is #MeToo worsening the divide between men and women? \| Female CEO is concerned about false accusations against men and thinks #MeToo has gone too far. It only ruins people because men take it seriously though. I've seen so many people groundlessly accused of being sexist or racist these days (especially the latter, my god) that I don't take it seriously anymore.	/r/MensRights	16/08/18 05:09 PM
29	Is #MeToo worsening the divide between men and women? \| Female CEO is concerned about false accusations against men and thinks #MeToo has gone too far. Problem is the stats don't say that. There are a few (rare) studies done of police reports for rape. They tend to conclude the false reporting rate is between 40% and 50% of all accusations. These studies often even have pie charts showing the different reasons for lying. The idea that false accusations are rare is very sadly a myth.	/r/MensRights	16/08/18 05:08 PM
2	Has anyone noticed that once respectable news publications now resemble the incoherent ramblings of a snotty teenage girl? I think his point was that the BBC scoured the world for news and couldn't find anything more important than a story about 'gender fluidity'. The BBC used to be about hard news: economic reforms in Indonesia or whatever. Now it's all SJW stuff.	/r/MensRights	14/08/18 09:18 AM
1	Has anyone noticed that once respectable news publications now resemble the incoherent ramblings of a snotty teenage girl? Oh gosh the Guardian was way worse than the BBC way earlier. Why not just read a whole bunch of different outlets? I regularly read the BBC for real-time events oriented news (earthquakes etc), the Telegraph for conservative analysis, Daily Mail for amusing human interest stories, the Express for anti-EU analysis, the Guardian to see what current leftie outrage of the day is (at least one or two articles), even drop in on Breitbart London from time to time to see what they're talking about (usua…	/r/MensRights	14/08/18 09:17 AM
2	#MeToo Backlash; Women in business say they are facing a "chilling effect" on their relationships with male colleagues and supervisors. I really, really want to believe that. The problem is that outside of a few conservative newspapers I read, I rarely see women repudiate feminism or speak up against it. They either openly and aggressively support it, or they say nothing and reap the benefits. It's a crying shame and even though most women are not feminists, it means in the end you can't really tell so have to act as if they all are.	/r/MensRights	14/08/18 09:03 AM
2	Jordan Peterson is everywhere right now, and that's a good thing Interesting. Can you give any further information on that? I've never heard that communism was associated with feminism. If anything I've met very few feminists from former Soviet states. I guess the communists gave women equal rights to men from the start and after that there wasn't perceived as much to do.	/r/MensRights	26/05/18 07:46 PM
16	UK: Another rape trial disgrace: Case collapses after police failed to investigate 30,000 Facebook messages linked to the ‘victim’ Man, 19 at the time, was accused of rape and five counts of sex with girl under 16 Trial collapsed and man, known only as Cameron, was found not guilty. Does anyone have the stats on UK rape trials in the last 6 months anywhere? I recall reading that there weren't that many active at any one point, maybe like between 10 and 15, and it feels like there must have been 7 or 8 trial collapses now. Bith the guy's solicitor and the judge in the case referred to the huge number of failed trials, so it must be seriously endemic now. What percentage of rape trial cases are falling apart because it's revealed at the last moment the woman lied and the poli…	/r/MensRights	22/05/18 07:39 AM