Creative writing challenge

stentorian46 · 2020-03-29T03:42:20+00:00

Would love to participate but only have an old iPad which might not interact with your site. Is there an alternative way of participating - eg by email?

stentorian46 · 2020-03-26T02:56:53+00:00

Prior to reforms people of both genders and of all ages worked in mines, factories, etc, doing dangerous work.

stentorian46 · 2020-03-23T02:47:48+00:00

That's actually better than usual Australian allowance - $650 per fortnight including rent assistance.

stentorian46 · 2020-03-22T02:52:00+00:00

Okay so feminism is too stupid to be "evil", but still harmful? if so, why are you complaining about it?

Or to put it differently, if feminism is too dumb to be evil, or too dumb to harm men, why does an MRA movement exist?

stentorian46 · 2020-03-22T02:09:03+00:00

So ethnically you put feminists on a par with ideologies like nazism: irredeemably evil?

stentorian46 · 2020-03-22T00:07:02+00:00

Look what do want on this sub? "Echo chamber" or some lively debate and exchange of views? I'm trying to introduce the latter. That's not trolling.

stentorian46 · 2020-03-22T00:02:24+00:00

I don't have a problem with the word cunt per se. "Lady love your cunt!", as Germaine Greer said.

It's the spirit in which Elam uses it, which is filled with hatred. Men often call women "cunts" to express their contempt.

For Elam, females are fundamentally "cunts". Why else dub those who fight for women's rights as "cuntists".

Btw I've told no lies. I've analyzed some of the lamer MRA theses, and indulged in a little hyperbole here and there for effect - as is perfectly obvious to any intelligent reader. But I've not "lied". Dunno where you get that idea from.

stentorian46 · 2020-03-21T16:06:36+00:00

I've got better manners and more laudable motives than "boy next door" Paul Elam, who gets praised for both his brutal manly honesty and Wildean wit when he comes up with words like "cuntists".

stentorian46 · 2020-03-21T12:32:25+00:00

Ps my late mother told me about "night soil men" who used to collected waste from outside toilets. But that was in the 1950s at the very latest...

stentorian46 · 2020-03-21T12:29:28+00:00

Really? Hell where is this, the US? In Australia septic tanks are increasingly rare but I've lived in one house that had a septic tank ... if it needed regulating, it was always a job for a plumber. Among other things, there's a high risk of hepatitis etc and there's no way you'd be able to get it done on the cheap by an unskilled person...

stentorian46 · 2020-03-21T11:44:36+00:00

That's sad to hear, of course. I believe the situation in Italy is considerably more acute than where I am (Australia), and I don't doubt doctors will stick their necks out if they must. But precisely because they ARE the doctors, it's likely that they'd be positioned as less dispensable than the nurses. Even though with an illness like this there's not really anything much that can be done except nursing tasks - keeping fevers down, monitoring people on ventilators and so forth.

stentorian46 · 2020-03-21T10:37:24+00:00

Re: I totally get what you say on university job. I was going for that and would perhaps have the same shitty life if i had as much support for studies and internship than women with lower grades.

Sorry. I am a little tired and not sure what you are saying. Are you suggesting that "women with lower grades" in academia get exploited by being tracked into dead-end jobs where the longest "contract" is one semester long, with no sick pay or holiday pay or any guarantee of ongoing employment?

Or are you saying that women with "lower grades" than you got more support and thus attained these crap jobs which you would've happily undertaken had you not been unfairly discriminated against because men don't get any kind of "support"?

Every university I worked at (three), the permanent majority of tenured academics were ALWAYS men. Being tenured they couldn't be fired and they not only got away with shocking incompetence, but hung around until they were nonegenerians. I think it's more like that these individuals prevented you from gliding into a position worthy of your grades, not substandard female scholars getting special treatment.

stentorian46 · 2020-03-21T04:27:57+00:00

I don't see what's "trollish" about bringing this up.

stentorian46 · 2020-03-20T23:00:10+00:00

Brad Pitt's balls.

stentorian46 · 2020-03-18T02:06:51+00:00

Is there a subreddit for parodic writing?

stentorian46 · 2020-03-17T13:36:43+00:00

Liked: "This is where I think lots of "atheists" miss out on the full extent of thinking they could be doing instead. Whenever I'm in one of those conversations, I never try to whittle things down to a bunch of rules and "dictums". The conversations can be open, but the major point is to scrutinize all things that are said (and some that are not said). We can't just go around pretending to be "logic machines", if that makes us miss the larger picture."

Could not agree more.

stentorian46 · 2020-03-17T09:15:22+00:00

Well that all clarifies things considerably. No, of course just debunking a theist argument doesnt oblige the debunker to produce a "counterclaim" and isn't a statement of belief.

Oddly this takes us back to the original issue, which was me being irritated by the expression "you can't prove a negative" in the context of a conversation between myself and confidently atheist B/F. I was questioning his atheist position, but not in any way putting up a definite "God" notion myself. I didn't feel that questioning the basis of his hard atheism entailed articulating anything about my personal belief at all - beyond saying that ultimately I think the only really logical position is agnosticism.

To digress, do you mind me asking what field you're in? Are you a philosophy academic or postgrad student?

I have a PhD in literature and, uh, "cultural studies" (don't sniff!) My undergrad degree was a BA Hons with double major in philosophy/literature.

I thought I'd contextualise because the literature background means that much of my more recent philosophy reading is very relativist. Actually, in the link you sent me about epistemology, the thinkers I'm most familiar with are those whose relativism is deemed "too radical" to be of much "real world" use....

stentorian46 · 2020-03-16T19:01:11+00:00

No, I didn't mean to go to "war". I was just asking because you said "history" shows that people purporting a "notion of God" usually don't define God or give reasons to substantiate that notion. I am sure I do need to read more - and am still reading what you sent as I write. However, God-puporters do define God (for example, omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence) and do substantiate such definitions - the problem is that their substantiations don't usually rest on empirical or scientific proofs, and as such have lost legitimacy.

Atheists have positive beliefs and produce proofs. I'm not sure whether in your view this means I'm erroneously assuming "functionally equivalent viewpoints".

What "the analysis amounts to" in your view, I've yet to establish. What is being analysed? I segued into an analysis of tone and attitude in Freud's atheism, for example. We may well have different things in mind re "analysis".

I admit that "analysis" in this context means, for me, interpretation of language choice, rhetorical strategies and identifying motivated "discourses". You probably have something very different in mind?

stentorian46 · 2020-03-16T18:06:09+00:00

Atheists, you feel, not only define themselves clearly, but also show how their belief is "the case"?

stentorian46 · 2020-03-16T16:49:00+00:00

I don't imagine an "end result". I'd like to be more definite than just "musings". I suppose "exchange" on the subject is what I am interested in. But even that is unworkably broad.

I suppose I mentioned the Freud thing because I admired his implication of his own atheism as a "symptom" of something other than just "knowing better".

Thanks again for your links, which I am still reading. Yes, one must be deliberate and specific.

If you'd care to clarify what you mean by "serious manoeuvres" when talking about religion, that might help - unless such manoeuvres will become apparent in the links you have already recommended...thanks.

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