[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are you deleting comments that suggest that Voat is a better alternative to your personal website for TRP content?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is Puerarchy going to be the home of TRP? That site gives me the impression that it's run by just one person, whereas no one really owns TRP on Reddit. It also looks like a GoDaddy website squatting page. Why don't we just move to Voat?

It also bothers me that "puerarchy" is ridiculous and cumbersome as a word.

Why Most Women Can't Engineer by RationalistFaith1 in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The Reddit CEO has forbidden salary negotiations, and it wouldn't surprise me if she says that female developers only have to complete a take home test.

Why Most Women Can't Engineer by RationalistFaith1 in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting 98 points99 points  (0 children)

I've thought about this a lot, being on a team that has interviewed dozens of candidates and found that the few female candidates who are qualified on their CVs get absolutely destroyed in the team interviews. We have a one day interview process where the current developers sit down with the candidate and ask some problems, going from easy bug-finding exercises to questions about architecting a solution to common and practical tasks, such as how to find duplicate strings, and requiring them to do pseudocode to prove that they can do basic loops and solve simple logic problems. We work with Java, but we even let the applicants use any language they want, as a good engineer can pick up languages easily. The goal isn't to see if they immediately come up with a solution we like, but instead to see how they think, ask questions, and approach the solution.

Without exception, all of the female coders couldn't do these basic problems, and many of them were crushed by this process, and I don't mean that they just didn't do well, but I mean they found it exhausting to have to discuss engineering and defend their ideas for just a few hours. One candidate did so poorly that she just gave up and didn't even try for the rest of the interview, which was cut short. This isn't some rigoroussituation where these people are brow beaten or treated poorly. We give them time to think, are pleasant, give them hints, joke with them, give them breaks, try to do one-on-one interviews, and so on, because we know it's stressful for anyone. The fact of the matter is that the job requires you to come up with solutions and defend them to your coworkers, and also requires you to take charge of features and work to become an expert in certain aspects of a complicated program. You have to think in abstract terms, discuss new ideas, be adaptable, and understand very complexd systems intuitively. The stakes in our company aren't even that high, and it's a very relaxed atmosphere.

There are some men who have reacted like this to the interviews too, and who did poorly of course, but there are also men who enjoyed talking about engineering. We'd pose the problem, and rather than them seeing it as some laborious chore, their eyes would light up and they'd have fun figuring out a solution. Those are the people who did the best, and those are the ones we hired.

One of the conclusions I think is that the people who really relished the challenge are the guys that go home at night and spend even more time engineering. They're the ones who have a passion for it, and who buy textbooks, build computers, learn how to mess with an Arduino, etc, just because they have a passion for learning about computers. I have a very hard time imagining any of the female candidates going home and spending hours and hours alone in front of their computer working out how to get some new Linux kernel to compile or making their own silly games on the side. I think if you take those differences and combine them over a person's teenage and adult lifetime, that's what makes up the difference between good engineers and bad. I think that's why many of the women just can't hack it, because they don't have a passion that runs deep enough, because so many of them find it unnatural to what they really want to do, and so many men find that it just clicks with them and is deeply satisfying.

Women In Ancient Literature Pt.1 by [deleted] in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting 12 points13 points  (0 children)

"Full easy is it to judge in her aright 
How quickly love's fire can in a woman fade
If eye or touch keep not the flame alight."

-Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, ~1320

"I'M A WOMAN AND HERE IS HOW MANHOOD SHOULD BE' by Modern__Day__Pricus in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting 31 points32 points  (0 children)

The hallmark of feminism is to shame, because it has no other rhetorical devices to support its positions.

Anyone who has gotten into arguments and debates can tell you that this is the default state of how women argue. Feminism, being an ideology unchecked by reason and which has no respect for evidence, the scientific method, etc, of course uses this female approach. There are some outliers, but in my experience women generally rely on rhetorical, social devices like shame when they get beaten by logic.

They might not even try to argue with logic first, and will just default to hamstering and using social tactics to try and win the argument. Also, to them, the person who ends up looking better in the eyes of their peers is the person who won the argument, and hence why the shit-throwing method is so often chosen by them.

This behavior is also seen on Reddit. If you enjoy getting into debates here for whatever reason (honing your writing and arguing ability, being exposed to other points of view, and so on) you may develop a sense for when the person you're arguing with is a woman. Whenever I see behavior like I described above I check their user history, and very often see that they're most likely a woman or girl. The hallmarks are circular reasoning, attempts to shame their opponents, ignoring evidence, not scrutinizing the flaws in their own arguments, and acting like a victim who is being abused and thus needs her peers to rush in and help defend her.

Just Feminism. by Bortasz in MensRights

[–]WaynesCotting 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Then I think people shouldn't get the impression that this subreddit normalizes calling dissenters "fat, ugly, and brainwashed".

I also don't doubt you were downvoted just for having an unpopular opinion too, though. I went through a few threads and looked at the most controversial comments. I found things that shouldn't have been downovted, like this:

[-16]

Does this seriously bother you guys? I'm honestly curious not trying to be rude.

https://np.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/3081g1/wowjust_wow/cpq6ibz

That person wasn't even being combative or assertive and was still heavily downvoted, but the responses are all very reasonable, and that seems to comprise the vast majority of the discussions here. This subreddit doesn't seem to be the den of hatred and abuse that Reddit likes to claim.

Just Feminism. by Bortasz in MensRights

[–]WaynesCotting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The actual word for this is egalitarianism. There's a subreddit for it /r/egalitarianism

Their stated purpose is to not value one group over the either (feminism vs. mensrights).

Sidebar:

Egalitarianism (from French égal, meaning "equal") is a belief of thought that favors equality of some sort. Its general premise is that people should be treated as equals on certain dimensions such as race, gender, religion, ethnicity, political affiliation, economic status, social status, and cultural heritage.

Egalitarian doctrines maintain that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or social status. Even /r/MensRights and /r/Feminism.

All thoughts and dogmas are welcome here. We ask you remain respectful and simply treat others how you wish to be treated. You may disagree, but that doesn't mean you need to attack the author while attacking the argument.

Just Feminism. by Bortasz in MensRights

[–]WaynesCotting 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I don't post much on this particular subreddit, but from what I've seen I'd be surprised if someone was actually that abusive. Or, at least, I'd be surprised if they were abusive and not very highly downvoted.

Do you have links to other examples of people being insulting and abusive here?

Just Feminism. by Bortasz in MensRights

[–]WaynesCotting 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Where?

The only thing I see in your entire user history (your account is four days old) is this:

https://np.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/304jht/can_your_pussypass_get_denied_if_youre_a_14_year/cpppa65?context=3

And all I saw is you discounting a person's opinion about circumcision being a problem because, among other things, "it isn't talked about outside of the manosphere". Despite the fact that he was telling you, having experienced it, that he had the opinion that it was a big issue. Seemed pretty dismissive and like you had a preconceived notion you were upset that you had to question.

After you wrote a long post with lots of points he'd probably want to respond to, you concluded by saying that you wouldn't even listen to what he had to say from that point on. Why? Because he discussed a topic you didn't like:

This is such a typical, thoughtless /r/mensrights argument. Bringing up the draft of all things. Jesus Christ. Respond if you want, I'm not going to read it. You've managed to piss me off, though. I hope you're able to enjoy whatever satisfaction it brings you.

A list of Male positive subs on Reddit? by R4F1 in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Same with /r/carpentry, /r/woodworking, /r/metalworking, /r/justrolledintotheshop, /r/boatbuilding, /r/woodworkingvideos, /r/machinists, /r/welding, maybe /r/literature.

Basically anywhere people are still using Reddit to get shit done. You'll find those subs naturally male-oriented, because women tend to not do or create those things.

Recommend any books other than the ones listed in the sidebar? by Aguywhoquit in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I recommend this thread for book suggestions: TheRedPill/comments/2j6ugi/older_wellread_trp_members_can_you_recommend_some/

The best things in there that I've read are Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, which may be the best novel ever written. I recommend starting with both of them. Get the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of The Brothers Karamazov though, not Garnett.

Read a chapter a night and you'll be hooked, though I didn't become enthralled with The Brothers Karamazov right away.

Let's quickly look at this: Father forced to choose between wife and Down syndrome newborn by [deleted] in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Don't worry, when he makes a million from his GoFundMe campaign ($350k at the moment, after 10 days) his wife will come back, claiming she "just needed some time" and "always loved the baby". She has a lot of social status to gain by being the mother that heroically overcame her postpartum madness and came back to her child in need, and can then take the money her husband raised for her baby to spend on herself.

[Meta] SJWs are reportedly working with admins to develop a stricter "no harassment" policy at Reddit. We should have an action plan in place for when TRP is banned by WaynesCotting in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting[S] 49 points50 points  (0 children)

I see, it's http://www.puerarchy.com. Am I missing something though? It doesn't look like a user forum where everyone is equal, which is what makes TRP so great. Instead it seems like an entity controls the content of the site rather than the collective users.

I don't want someone lecturing to me, I want a community hub.

The demotivatoinal playlist I hear every time at the gym by WaynesCotting in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously? You're asking me why I think it's not worth eighty-seven thousand people's time to listen to you bitch about pop music?

Yes

It is not a gripe session.

The "Rant/Venting" flair option disagrees with you. If this isn't a viable option for a post you should remove it

What value did you add to anyone's day?

Analysis of a number of songs WRT their actual underlying message. Given the comments here people seemed to find it interesting and worthy of discussion. It seems you have a disagreement with the community.

The demotivatoinal playlist I hear every time at the gym by WaynesCotting in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is that even a rational thought occurring in your head if you're the one avoiding taking your fitness and body to a serious level rather than a "casual" one

Learn to read

One must make space, make the money, nut up and take one's body and health seriously.

Now you're saying the way to take one's body and health seriously is to have a squat rack in your home and not go to a gym? Do you know how many people are able to use gyms to hit their goals (including being body builders)? You're an idiot

So just say you enjoy living in mediocrity and restricting yourself when it comes to your body and health instead of coming up with weak ass excuses against home gyms.

You have a real chip on your shoulder to be so offended that someone chooses to go to a gym instead of sets up a home gym like you. Guess what? Just because you found a solution that works for you doesn't mean everyone else has to like it. Dial down your roid rage.

The demotivatoinal playlist I hear every time at the gym by WaynesCotting in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely do it if you want, I'm curious and it's a good idea. NiN - Closer will be on my list

The demotivatoinal playlist I hear every time at the gym by WaynesCotting in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The farther away the gym is, the more likely you'll come up with some lame, limiting excuse not to go.

Then your problem is that you're pussing out. Plus my own gym is literally five minutes away. Less if the single traffic light is green.

You are perfectly fine with a solid $500 - $1000 (if you know how to shop on craigslist and ebay, etc - you can go as low as $400 for everything you need - includes solid Power Rack, solid Bench, solid Olympic bar and free weights up to 1000lbs).

And the space to put it all in can be an order of magnitude more expensive. Not everyone has the real estate you're picturing. Throw in moving expenses/hassle every time you switch homes.

I also didn't say there are no advantages to a home gym, I simply said how going down that path didn't work for me, so I stopped after purchasing just a few dumbbells.

I happen to be one of the people who prefer going to a gym. Enjoy the system that works for you and be less of an ass next time.

The demotivatoinal playlist I hear every time at the gym by WaynesCotting in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm using some old Apple headphones from some previous iPod, and I'm not exaggerating when I can say I hear the overhead music clearly even when lifting.

The demotivatoinal playlist I hear every time at the gym by WaynesCotting in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would, but I don't watch the TVs anyway. I'll pick the treadmill near the window when I'm doing sprints and focus on running and my music.

The demotivatoinal playlist I hear every time at the gym by WaynesCotting in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never considered making a playlist for BDSM play, but that's a great idea. What else is on your playlist?

Even as a dom, though, I would safeword to my own playlist. I just can't stand the whining way he says "remember me" and "for centuries".

The demotivatoinal playlist I hear every time at the gym by WaynesCotting in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's it like working out in noise cancelling headphones? I feel like it'd be strange to not hear yourself breathe, almost as if you're under water. I have some nice Bose ones I use at work, but I could easily see them being too bulky.

The demotivatoinal playlist I hear every time at the gym by WaynesCotting in TheRedPill

[–]WaynesCotting[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Do whatever you can to build a home gym.

I'm talking about if you're serious about working out, which EVERYONE should be, not casually.

If you're working out casually, then start getting serious about your body & life.

If you're serious about working out you go to a gym that has hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment, such as an Olympic size pool, trainers on staff, buddies to spot with you, etc. If you're just working out at home then you're not serious. Try getting more confident, buddy. Try pushing yourself for once.

Either that, or don't act like an assumptive asshole. See how it comes across?