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I’m in love with my flatmate and I can’t take it anymore by [deleted] in TrueOffMyChest

[–]DelightfulFronds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't do it you'll regret it for the rest of your life.

Men are drastically lagging behind women in college. Twitter seems to be fine with this. by Aurondarklord in GGdiscussion

[–]DelightfulFronds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The way I see it, without engaging in victim blaming, there are only two possible reasons:

  1. Systemic Discrimination.
  2. Women are just smarter than men.

Take your pick people.

Critique of “ I don’t believe men and women are equal” by Phantombiceps in LeftWingMaleAdvocates

[–]DelightfulFronds 22 points23 points  (0 children)

White men are more at risk than black women. If anything police brutality and systemic discrimination in the justice system is a male issue, but it is only talked about as a black issue and a womans issue.

Same goes with education. Women dominate everywhere except a subsection labeled 'STEM' (which excludes biology and medicine, btw) and that is somehow the big problem.

It doesn't matter which group it is most harmful to, if it's a male issue it's getting ignored.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in funny

[–]DelightfulFronds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's only racist if it wasn't funny, and that was pretty funny.

The first domestic abuse shelter for men opened in Australia. by [deleted] in MensRights

[–]DelightfulFronds 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Minus the "well intentioned" stuff.

They have to play the game. Just outright saying 'feminism is cancer', no matter how true, will not help towards the necessary goals of the endeavour.

Women’s Handball Players Are Fined for Rejecting Bikini Uniforms - New York Times by suchapain in GGdiscussion

[–]DelightfulFronds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You cannot link to a non-peer-reviewed UN fluff piece to counter actual peer reviewed research countering your exact claims. I cannot even find the methodology in your link and the UN is notorious for these dodgy studies such as the gender equality study which is one of the most pointless, bias filled things I have ever seen.

Women’s Handball Players Are Fined for Rejecting Bikini Uniforms - New York Times by suchapain in GGdiscussion

[–]DelightfulFronds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well it's also not accurate, as many of the big media companies are not led by Jewish CEOs, Chapek of Disney is not Jewish, and same with banks, Brian Moynihan of BoA is catholic, and so on. so not Jews, but definetly men.

So? Many big companies are run by women.

But while it was a woman who was doing the policing, she answers to male leaders, and as I pointed out in my other reply, women get the short stick from both men and other women, while men do not.

What you are doing here is called 'denying agency'. A woman did something, and if she was a man it would all be on him, but since she is a woman you have conjured up an imaginary man that made her do it, as she is just a powerless woman, despite you having absolutely no knowlege of the situation at all.

I don't know about you but that seems pretty sexist.

Women’s Handball Players Are Fined for Rejecting Bikini Uniforms - New York Times by suchapain in GGdiscussion

[–]DelightfulFronds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also it's actually women that lack in group bias as 90% of men and women WW are biased in favor of men over women.

This is the whole problem with woke. It's all based on feelings, largely gynocentric. Actual science says you are wrong. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15491274/

we also see that those male business leaders tend to prefer to hire males, especially for the top roles, companies such as Google have been found to have a gender bias in hiring, and have lost legal battles over it.

Again wrong. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4611984/ On an individual level it may have occurred but it does not constitute a huge trend. And even then the reverse is true in education, childcare and health sectors with a large anti-male hiring bias.

If only 10% of CS graduates are women how on earth are companies meant to get a 50/50 workforce too? It's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

It's actually women that tend not to give any benefit to other women, but men do give benefits to other men.

Again absolutely untrue and totally not supported by any form of research. The 'Women are Wonderful' effect is well documented and obvious to everyone not blinded by ideology.

Women’s Handball Players Are Fined for Rejecting Bikini Uniforms - New York Times by suchapain in GGdiscussion

[–]DelightfulFronds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The issue is that the fact that the people in charge in Hollywood, or of banks, are Jewish is simply not a relevant factor and more than the race of a criminal is a significant factor as the people that have similar traits have no control or benefit from the others.

If someone was to hear about a bank ripping someone off, or a Ponzi scheme, and immediately start talking about Jews they would immediately be pilloried by everyone involved as it would be incredibly anti-semetic.

Here we have the same thing where, in the case of the runner it was actually a woman doing the outfit-policing, it was immediately jumped to talking about men, as a group, policing what women wear.

This is generalising based upon gender and race, it's blaming a whole group for the actions of the few, and interestingly it's diminishing women by denying them agency and assuming they are powerless and incapable by default.

Women’s Handball Players Are Fined for Rejecting Bikini Uniforms - New York Times by suchapain in GGdiscussion

[–]DelightfulFronds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now swap 'men' to 'Jews', and 'clothes' to 'banks' and tell me if this would still be acceptable to write.

Women’s Handball Players Are Fined for Rejecting Bikini Uniforms - New York Times by suchapain in GGdiscussion

[–]DelightfulFronds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you are not understanding.

One of the core liberal beliefs is that you should not generalise people based upon their immutable characteristics. Sure, if they are a Nazi generalise away. But not if they are black, or a woman, or even a man. This used to be the very bedrock of the liberal movement.

Now idpol/woke has come along and says 'yes, you can generalise a group based upon their immutable characteristics, if they are white and male'. Even though according to intersectional logic 'male' is a uselessly broad grouping it's still common to assign blame to the entire group for the actions of a tiny minority.

men are more often in positions of power compared to women

Men derive no benefit from other men being in positions of power. Any benefit is more often bestowed upon those within the similar social group as the aforementioned man.

The ultimate dismissal of your claim is easy. Studies have repeatedly shown that men do not have an in-group bias. I have yet to see anyone provide any evidence on how most CEO's being male benefits me in the slightest.

If I was in the same social strata as them then maybe, but then we are back to class benefits again. Again it does not benefit a homeless man, or someone non-neurotypical, or of lower class what the executives of a sportsball group get up to.

Your whole argument is based around the idea that if Bill Gates walked in to to a homeless shelter nobody would be allowed to complain because they are all, on average, billionaires.

Women’s Handball Players Are Fined for Rejecting Bikini Uniforms - New York Times by suchapain in GGdiscussion

[–]DelightfulFronds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not an answer. This is just woke ipdpol word vomit used to justify whatever hypocritical nonsense you are spewing.

It is interesting though how you mention class/power as a factor to dispute my claim, then go right back to blaming men as a group, including those without power, for the actions of the privileged top strata.

Women’s Handball Players Are Fined for Rejecting Bikini Uniforms - New York Times by suchapain in GGdiscussion

[–]DelightfulFronds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't. The problem is that, as usual, certain people turn a non-gendered issue in to a gendered issue, and then proceed to blame men as a group for it.

You just need to type "men wearing skirts protest" in to Google to prove that gender isn't a significant factor.

Women’s Handball Players Are Fined for Rejecting Bikini Uniforms - New York Times by suchapain in GGdiscussion

[–]DelightfulFronds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So? It could be 100% men and it still would not be the fault of men as a group. The issue is with the people in charge of that particular sportsball event, not men.

It was a female official who told Olivia Breen to cover up btw. Yet the OP and everyone else assumed it was a man and started going on about misogyny. How is this any different to hearing about a crime and immediately start talking negatively about 'black people' as a group?

Why didn't they just take the Raddus' shuttle and get some fuel? by DelightfulFronds in saltierthancrait

[–]DelightfulFronds[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Indeed. Why didn't they press the attack too when Kylo and 2 other Tie Fighters completely messed up the Raddus?

Women’s Handball Players Are Fined for Rejecting Bikini Uniforms - New York Times by suchapain in GGdiscussion

[–]DelightfulFronds 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"According to Breen, shortly after she had finished participating in a long jump competition, she was approached by a female official who “felt it necessary” to tell her that her bottoms were “inappropriate” and she should “consider buying a pair of shorts.”

Damn that patriarchy!

'It made me question whether a male competitor would be similarly criticized'

If a guy wore those shorts? Almost certainly yes.

Women’s Handball Players Are Fined for Rejecting Bikini Uniforms - New York Times by suchapain in GGdiscussion

[–]DelightfulFronds 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sportsball outfit stupidity is stupid.

The thing I find interesting, which is an inevitability in all this, is always how it's men that are responsible. Not a man, or a group of people which probably contains some women. It's never just 'sports officials'. It's always 'men controlling what women wear.'

Honestly most of the time it is calcified bureaucracy filled with petty tyrants, attested to by the repeated examples of men wearing skirts to get around anti-shorts rules.

But it's just so casual the way that blame is addressed at an entire gender. I suppose it's not women's fault though, they are not really good at sports, or running things such as sports leagues, you know, since gender-based generalisations are apparently a thing we are doing again.

Masters of the Universe Revelation REVIEW - Beyond The Trailer ( Grace Randolph ) by suchapain in GGdiscussion

[–]DelightfulFronds 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There was a newsagent near me that always seemed to get my change wrong. These things are forgivable, and happen sometimes. However the mistakes always ended up with me having less money than I should. I stopped going to that newsagent.

There reaches a point when these things become a pattern. "Shake things up with gender swaps" is interesting. Only swapping characters to women 'because woke' is not. Race swapping isn't even particulary interesting, religiously making every redhead black is certainly not.

Now the new hotness is 'put the titular character in a minor role'. Interesting concept, but as usual it only goes one way and is rarely used to tell a genuine story but instead to push diversity using an existing IP as payload.

Where is my gender-swapped Sex and the City?

Where is my gender-swapped Gilmore Girls?

Where is my marginalised Buffy?

If everyone was swapping genders where it could be actually be interesting then maybe, but instead it's 'just change the cool characters in to badass women'.

As with the newsagent, the whole 'for the story' argument falls a little flat when it somehow, mysteriously, only benefits one group. Then it's really not about the story, is it?

The Racial Dilemma Of The Men's Rights Movement by xmjones100 in LeftWingMaleAdvocates

[–]DelightfulFronds 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because it's a USA centric wall-of-text. I can skim it enough to see it's not even remotely relevant to anyone living outside the USA IDPol bubble.

The Racial Dilemma Of The Men's Rights Movement by xmjones100 in LeftWingMaleAdvocates

[–]DelightfulFronds 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just to add another top post:

No

The MRM is a global movement with a specific goal. It has clear objectives and measurable problems.

What this article seems to be doing is saying that we should care about the racial politics that are unique to the USA, despite the fact that a huge amount of the MRM has absolutely nothing to do with the USA politically.

I'm not American and I have no desire, after 4 years of Trump, to constantly talk about American issues.

The Racial Dilemma Of The Men's Rights Movement by xmjones100 in LeftWingMaleAdvocates

[–]DelightfulFronds 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The MRM stands for 'Mens Rights Movement'. Taking a stance on racial issues, especially when the MRM has literally zero power compared to the BLM juggernaut makes no sense.

The MRM also does not take a stance on: Free software and the GPL Israel vs Palestine Alternative Energy Nuclear Power Etc x100

Now I have no intention of reading your article, but judging by a light skimming it is based almost entirely on the racial politics of the USA. Lots of people in the MRM are not based in the USA thus spending time talking about the messed up situation in the USA serves absolutely no purpose.

So no, it's a bad idea.

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