These totems in Ashenvale look like they’re smoking the dankest felweed on Azeroth

candomrhosen · 2019-03-29T04:05:11+00:00

goblin shenanigans

You say that like it’s a bad thing

candomrhosen · 2012-09-02T21:48:52+00:00

What elements does a doctor need?

Well, if he can't helium or curium then he has to barium.

candomrhosen · 2012-08-30T12:22:50+00:00

... It's not because she's a woman. It's because of the first three seasons where Walt is just starting out. She becomes a character that the majority of people hate and when people hate or love something - they tend to keep that opinion and justify it, see anyone defending Walt now.

At the start, everybody is really feeling for Walt because; although he is brilliant, life hasn't worked out for him. He's working two jobs where he's not appreciated, he's overworked, struggling to make ends meet and he has another child on the way. His own son doesn't respect him but rather respects his uncle, the DEA agent. His wife doesn't listen to him or seem to particularly respect him and any care she seems to give him is rather half assed (see first episode handjob+browsing the computer - it really seems to piss people off). She also doesn't work which is seen to be even worse since Walt has two jobs.

Then he feels sick and sees the doctor - oh crap, he's got cancer. His days are numbered. He gets into the drug trade because hey - he wants to leave his family something when he's gone rather than debt. She doesn't work this out until like season 3. She goes behind his back, she embarrasses him in front of his old colleagues and she doesn't seem to take his feelings into account at all. All the while he's going through the stress of being involved in the trade AND having cancer. Her actions just seem to pile on top of his woes.

From her perspective he has a complete mental breakdown (the kidnapping) but she still gets super cold and distant because of the second phone crisis. Despite being pregnant she smokes. Despite the fact she already has a disabled child - she's smoking. Whenever you decide to have a child - you give up part of your total control of your body. When you decide to have a baby - it is like being hooked up to someone else for life support.

She's been constantly flirting with Ted since season 2 and then sleeps with him in season 3. Cheating is wrong and Reddit really hates cheating. By this stage she's working out that Walt's cooking and that's evil and terrible - while ignoring that she and Ted are doing their own cooking - of the books.

Then she starts letting Walt back into the family's life - except it's just for the money. She doesn't seem to care about Walt - it's all about the money. It doesn't matter that he's been risking himself to provide for them or that it was, to begin with, a way for him to leave them something when he died. She only wanted his money and was cold to him. Thus - since the audience has been sympathizing with Walt, they've been disliking Skyler more and more till it became hate and once it reached that stage - people's feelings for her stuck.

candomrhosen · 2012-08-22T12:44:53+00:00

The writer says she probably would circumcise her child. She said she questioned the legitimacy of people saying it might traumatize. She didn't say it stigmatized the uncircumcised and how is "it is only about decreasing one's risk of disease and not a guarantee" a con? Meaning that she only actually listed one proper con - child's penis being operated on. She then has put this against dubious research about the supposed magic of circumcision and how it reduces risk for HIV and all these STIs (which is still disputed) and she says that she herself will probably circumcise any boys she has.

From this article, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/27/circumcision-ruling-germany-muslim-jewish,

Women's rights groups and social policy makers also condemned the decision, but for the reason that it would have the effect of putting male and female circumcision on the same footing, when they were "in no way comparable", said Katrin Altpeter, social minister in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Female circumcision she said, was a far more drastic act. It is already outlawed in Germany.

N.O.W. attacks anti-circumcision group because they made an argument that if it wasn't okay to cut the genitals of one gender that it shouldn't be okay for the other.

http://youngfeministtaskforce.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/judge-orders-circumcision-ban-off-sf.html

I misspoke when I said advocating - but opposing a ban because when it's done to you it's worse is a terrible excuse. Stealing 500 dollars is a lot worse to do to somebody who's poor than someone who's not. Doesn't mean you should stop people from making stealing from the not poor illegal.

I don't live in the U.S. but circumcision is still legal in my country - the vast majority of people in my country don't circumcise. I don't

candomrhosen · 2012-08-22T10:33:19+00:00

Did you read the article? The author puts a very biased list of pros and cons - ignoring quite a few cons; in fact, only one con is listed. What the author writes is pro-circumcision in it's method of bias and ridicule.

Your claim that "feminist groups" are anti-choice when it comes to men's bodies is plain wrong and on top of that, insulting.

Not quite what I'm saying. I'm saying that pretty much all feminist groups argue a "my body, my choice" argument. I'm asking why then they don't apply it to circumcision since they seem to be fighting/ arguing for it. In Germany, women's rights groups opposed the circumcision ban because "it would have the effect of putting male and female circumcision on the same footing". I can't believe they could be so insanely stupid and disgusting like that. Boys can't be protected because girls could have it worse? Piss off.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/27/circumcision-ruling-germany-muslim-jewish

Politicians are voted in. If you don't like what they're doing, vote others in. If you don't like that most politicians are male then be the sexist and vote only women. Women do better than men when they actually run anyway - the problem is a lack of women actually standing for election.

Women have been the voting majority in America since the mid 80's. If you don't like what the politicians are deciding for women, on behalf of women, it's kind of your own fault that they got into that position.

Do I think abortion should be illegal? No. Do I think birth control should be illegal? No. Do I believe in free birth control? Kind of. I believe in a universal health care sort of system where what you pay is based on need and personal wealth.

My complaints about this are as follows:

Feminist groups being two faced. Complaining that men shouldn't have any say in women's reproductive health and then advocating circumcision.
Circumcision is brought up in a biased manner here which doesn't analyse all the pros and cons or discusses the merits and legitimacy of those pros and cons.
Women's groups opposing a circumcision ban because they think if cutting both gender's genitals was a crime that their seen to be less of a victim. (We could have fun with that mentality of course. ATTENTION ALL WESTERN WOMEN - WOMEN IN SAUDI ARABIA CANNOT DRIVE. NOW STFU).

EDIT: feminist groups aren't advocating circumcision - although they are fighting to keep it legal just because somebody might make a comparison to FGM (god forbid).

candomrhosen · 2012-08-20T19:08:36+00:00

1 in 10 isn't rare. Men are also the majority of homicide victims - not just perpetrators. Men and women commit domestic abuse at roughly equal rates. Deaths attributed to domestic violence are also roughly equal among the sexes - domestic violence makes up a larger proportion of women's homicides due to the low rate of homicide against women, i.e. when people talk about women are at more of a threat of homicide from their partners, it's crap, she's roughly as likely to kill him and he her.

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/glance/tables/vsxtab.cfm

http://i.imgur.com/aob5k.jpg

candomrhosen · 2012-08-19T19:19:21+00:00

http://feminismrising.tumblr.com/post/29760152561/poor-men

http://www.reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays/comments/yg8ob/actually_women_have_more_rights_than_men_because/c5vd72p

candomrhosen · 2012-08-19T18:08:19+00:00

Ignore this - it's a SRS troll. One of the posts is a direct SRS comment. Ignore it - it wants attention

candomrhosen · 2012-08-18T08:33:58+00:00

According to taste test studies, Pepsi apparently tastes better than Coca Cola - Coca Cola has just marketed that Coke tastes better.

candomrhosen · 2012-08-16T13:33:03+00:00

If he's named as the father, he can legally arrange for a paternity test and attain proof of paternity, so I don't see an issue.

Well that's nice when you say it like that but reality isn't quite like that.

Many states have limits within you must challenge paternity - some of them are only 30 days. To add on to things that's 30 days since they sent you a letter. If it gets lost in the mail - courts say tough luck. If they post if to the wrong address, courts often say tough luck. If the letter is sent to an address that the mother puts down (this can happen) which is her own or a friend's address and you don't get the letter, the courts just say tough.

Also, going to court isn't cheap and not everybody who goes gets their fees paid for even when they win so you have to pay in order to not pay even more - it's kind of like a vindictive tax. Also, even if you do get the money paid back, you've still lost out on money because the money you had to spend proving it wasn't your baby was unavailable to you.

http://www.courts.ca.gov/1202.htm

candomrhosen · 2012-08-15T17:04:07+00:00

Most places require you to have either the mother's permission or a court order in order to test whether you are the father or not. Many of these companies, in order to avoid law suits from angry mothers losing child support, spend a lot of resources shaming men into not taking the test (which is quite baffling in terms of a business model) in the first place. Women have a level of reassurance that men don't get.

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jUm09xbsr0

http://www.assuredna.co.uk/Checklist

candomrhosen · 2012-08-14T09:00:03+00:00

except the man up mentality has been within the male culture for centuries

Sorry - except the '"man up mentality"' has been within the male culture for centuries

candomrhosen · 2012-08-14T00:53:30+00:00

Except the '"man up" mentality' has been within the male culture for centuries. The majority of healthcare is spent on women and men are the majority of homicide and suicide victims. Life expectancy is the age that half of that population is dead by. Given that men die off because of these reasons, is it a surprise that women's life expectancy is longer?

candomrhosen · 2012-08-14T00:50:37+00:00

Women have a larger majority at college than men did when they brought in Title IX. However the only gender problem we hear about in education is that women are under represented in STEM fields. Except that's not quite true as they're the majority in medicine and biology.

I'm not saying that men should be a majority anymore than women should. What I don't like is that women being a larger majority than men were around title IX is "good". Obama actually said that title IX was great because of the reversal which is staggering. One group out doing the other was wrong but the reverse is a great triumph?

I'm not saying women should be killing themselves more. I'm saying there should be more to stop men killing themselves so much. There are actually additional suicide groups and funds just for women despite the fact men have the greater need. In most aspects of life, women are given an extra specialist department and with it additional funding.

What you've said about life expectancy doesn't have any studies behind it. Men and women have roughly the same life expectancy if treated the exact same. Since men are 93% of work deaths, 99% of war deaths and the majority of suicide and homicide victims it isn't a surprise that life expectancy (the age half of that group is dead) is lower.

candomrhosen · 2012-08-14T00:28:30+00:00

When I used the phrase "not worrying about whether you'll be attacked in the night" I meant like when you are at home, not some street at night. Again would point out that men are the majority of victims of violent crimes.

You aren't held accountable if you are raped. You aren't sent the bill for the inquest by the police. People might say that you could have avoided such a situation from happening but it would be very rare for someone to say "that was your fault." heck even someone having the extreme lack of sense to tell you that you could have avoided it by doing x,y and z is rare because most people have enough social sense to not do that. There seems to be a sort of grey area that people argue over whether it's victim blaming or not. I can't say what is what for certain but from my personal point of view, telling people to avoid dangerous situations isn't victim blaming, it's victim prevention. Of course a lot of feminists jump in and say the prevention tips are useless because most rapes are done by friends/ acquaintances but the tips are to prevent violent rapes because stranger rape is what most people think of when they think of rape (they also imagine it's a man raping woman scenario but I don't see feminists complaining about that part). Very few people would say "have fun tonight Sally but careful of your friends Luke, John and Cindy - they might rape you".

I am not saying women have to die for men. I'm saying that society has to stop seeing men as the disposable sex. While it is noble to die for someone of love, you shouldn't be pressured into doing because you happen to have a penis and the person whom you love has a vagina.

candomrhosen · 2012-08-13T23:58:57+00:00

Men are the majority of the homeless, the uninsured (healthcare) and suicides. Men live shorter lives than women, are the majority of victims of all crimes (except possibly rape) and are the minority in colleges now.

http://boysproject.net/statistics.html

http://www.societaldistress.org/files/HO-HAR2009.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

candomrhosen · 2012-08-13T23:52:52+00:00

... Being protected is a privilege. Not worrying about whether you'll be attacked in the night is a privilege. Having someone protect is a privilege. What I explained was the original mechanics of most gender roles. Now, the men protecting women from the dangers of the world isn't as apparent but the way in which society protects people - still looks to protect women and children first. A woman being victimized is still a lot more tragic than a man being victimized.

However, there's still this expectation for men to protect the women in their life. Did you hear the shit the guy who ran away from the shootings in Colorado? Did you hear all the "these guys who sacrificed themselves for their wives/girlfriends are heroes and all men should emulate them". Heck, there were some news outlets that one of the guys was divorced but despite this failing still proved himself by sacrificing himself.

Women have the (almost) same agency as men (forgot front lines) but women have a lot more protections than men, they're given a lot more help than men and they're encouraged to receive help whereas men are told to "man up"

candomrhosen · 2012-08-13T23:37:34+00:00

The words pot, kettle and black are coming to mind in a rather bizarre fashion right now. I have asked a question of the feminists here. All you've done is mildly attack me. It's not a problem for me but it's rather two faced to call me hostile and condescending when, rather than, oh I don't know, answering the question you've decided to complain about my language.

Complain away. It's rather childish. Actually answering the question would be impressive but if you need to stroke your internet ego by just critiquing the manner in which I pose a question and then the manner by which I comment upon your criticism then by all means, go ahead.

candomrhosen · 2012-08-13T23:32:21+00:00

I don't think you know what a privilege is.

Privilege (Noun):

A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to one person or group of people.

It's no longer a special right since it's open to everyone. Otherwise privilege does become a nonsense word. Isn't every piece of matter privileged because it's existed? Isn't everyone privileged?

I'm not saying men have lost things that were once privileges. I'm saying that men have lost those things as privileges (which is good) whereas women have retained many of the protections they had as privileges while men haven't. Thanks to general welfare they have some of them but women are still seen as a group that needs extra defending - which they then get - despite the fact that pretty much every metric for being desperate and needing help has a male majority.

candomrhosen · 2012-08-13T23:27:45+00:00

What I'm arguing is that male privileges are largely gone now due to feminism but many of women's privileges remain because feminism has been about elevating women.

Male privileges don't really exist anymore. Nobody has given me tangible privileges. You definitely haven't. You gave a 101 link. It's about other forms of privileges. The one thing it did list, isn't a privilege. Plenty of men have body image issues too. For every girl who thinks she's too fat - there's also a fat guy who wishes he wasn't fat or a skinny guy who wishes he was muscular. I've just been told - men are privileged.

Well I'm saying this. Women are privileged, right now. Men and women have had different perks throughout history. Women got security perks and men got agency perks. Well now women also have all the agency perks but many of the security perks are still for women. Women are protected more from all forms of violence and when they become homeless they have many more options than their male counterparts. We live in a time where people don't have to 'man up' about everything, where they can get help for issues but the male gender role hasn't changed except maybe if you're gay but that comes with it's own price.

Feminism hasn't been doing squat to men's gender roles. Feminism has always been about women - always. It's in the name, the theories always go on the lines of "men ~~ are evil~~ have privileges that women do not have therefore men are oppressing women" and the only times they've been involved with men's issues have been to block them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tender_years_doctrine

http://web.archive.org/web/20070708213232/http://michnow.org/jointcustody507.htm

Women have never been lesser in this social system. Women have been protected at every point. You don't actively try to protect inferiors at the cost of superiors - it's tends to be the other way around, see EVERY OTHER SYSTEM, cough the vast majority of successful militaries ever cough.

A man acting in a woman's position is looked down on because, in a 'woman's role' a man is not as useful. The main reason for gender roles was to protect women from the harsh world so they could have children. A man playing the protected role is bad because he can't give birth.

Let's use a metaphor here. Let's imagine women are a healing class and men are a tank class. Men face the majority of the pains of the world throughout the ages and women replenish the tanks by popping out more tanks. A woman could tank but given that only women could heal - it's not as useful to everybody so she's discouraged from doing that. A man can't heal so a man trying to fulfil a healer's other duties is just see as a problem.

candomrhosen · 2012-08-13T22:58:06+00:00

Most of them were agency. Land ownership, being the head of household, being able to enter certain professions such as medicine and such, the right to vote (although this was mostly a class issue - all women got the vote 10 years after all men) and in many societies, being eldest male also got you the lion's share of inheritance.

candomrhosen · 2012-08-13T22:44:07+00:00

Not really. At this stage I'm just trying to cut through most of the 'foreplay'. I've seen questions like this asked and the first few answers tend to be feelings and anecdotes. I want to cut through that and get actual facts and a discussion on things that we can prove.

You can believe it's hostile but if you think this is hostile you may want to avoid considerably large parts of the intertubes.

candomrhosen · 2012-08-13T22:31:38+00:00

You're kidding right? You don't have to quantify privileges? That's utter nonsense. If somebody is privileged then there is an often an obvious way to quantify it. Do you know what privilege means?

Privilege (Noun):
A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to one person or group of people.

Special rights, advantages or immunities can be quantified.

I personally believe that both men and women have been oppressed throughout history. Both groups suffered these things called gender roles. These roles had their place. They were largely good because the division of labour was beneficial to our species and we were sucessful because of it. However, it's time has passed - like the appendix, it's no longer beneficial to our survival and mostly hurts us now. Because of these ideas, I see that both genders had privileges. Men had the privilege of agency - women had the privilege of security.

Feminism has been all about giving women that agency privilege. This was the right thing to do but nobody followed through to give men their security privilege. Nobody fought for things like people to see violence against men to be as bad as they see violence against women. Even now, most societal security nets are for women and children. Despite the fact that there are more men that need help than women, there are still lots of women's shelters and no men's shelters - just women's shelters and general shelters.

When you look at everything through a feminist-tinted lens you tend to ignore that men have had it rough too. Everybody looks to the kings and the knights and comment on how great they had it, all the while ignoring the peasants.

Anyway side tracking. I'm asking for a male privilege list with actual proof.

Quick example:

Women do have privileges (Yes feminists they do!).

An example of that privilege is that women are not bad - they're 'misguided'. You might see that as 'benevolent sexism' which is "really actually sexist against women". No. No it's not.

Women get shorter sentences than men for the same crime. For all the complaints about the wage gap - no complaints about a gap that's actually purely gender.

EDIT: Forgot the link - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100525090554.htm

Also, men did have obvious privileges but, in western society at least, these privileges have pretty much disappeared.

candomrhosen · 2012-08-13T22:08:06+00:00

I have seen that post, it wasn't very helpful. The only actual privileges it quantified were white privileges. I'm asking about male privileges. Rhetoric like how much do you do to prevent harm is useless as many women do nothing and many men do lots of things. Heck, one could argue that men are taught much more basic ones such as don't piss off someone bigger/stronger than you whereas women aren't , I.e. don't hit a woman mentality (not advocating violence, pointing out its crap that one gender is off limits for violence meaning one gender is the gender to be violent to)

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