If Mort Divine ruled the world

[rms]

I'm obviously not speaking for everyone but....if I were suddenly a widower and back in the dating market looking for someone with the qualities of being intelligent, stable, good company at home, and possessing of homemaking skills, tattoos do not tend to signal the confluence of those qualities. Note I said tend. I also said nothing about the attractiveness of the tattoos.

you could just say humans don't tend to have those qualities

but her point was that being fat or being a single mom weighs you down...tattoo's don't do that at all but that shit was terrible, is that the MGTOW world or something? holy moly

 

[Dak]

you could just say humans don't tend to have those qualities

but her point was that being fat or being a single mom weighs you down...tattoo's don't do that at all but that shit was terrible, is that the MGTOW world or something? holy moly

Well, sure they don't. But those who do tend to signal it.

I don't think you know what MGTOW is if you think advice towards women looking for more traditional men is MGTOW.

 

[rms]

i read the comments and the related videos were all mgtow shit. women suck so i'm going solo, so of course mgtow men would be like yeah shitty women listen to this shitty woman about being less shitty women

 

[Dak]

i read the comments and the related videos were all mgtow shit. women suck so i'm going solo, so of course mgtow men would be like yeah shitty women listen to this shitty women about being less shitty women

Well MGTOWers are generally navel-gazers, like many SJW subgroups. Identify a problem, then run off and engage in non-constructive behaviors. Like commenting on that video.

 

[Einherjar86]

Never heard of that scenario until now. Mostly what I hear about is that self-censorship stops people from giving honest answers and views during a discussion or that snowflake teachers and students obsessively have guests censored even though they were invited to speak.

The scenario you're using as the main example sounds like a non-issue to me. I don't even know a single person who considers free speech their main issue that has ever brought that up.

It's exactly what professors are struggling with in academia. It sounds like a non-issue to you because you're not exposed to it.

If students feel like they can't give honest answers, it's not because the faculty are censoring them. It's because they feel intimidated in the presence of very vocal, often antagonistic classmates. These classmates are the ones complaining about censorship, ironically, when they're told by instructors that they're impeding the conversation.

 

[Dak]

It's exactly what professors are struggling with in academia. It sounds like a non-issue to you because you're not exposed to it.

If students feel like they can't give honest answers, it's not because the faculty are censoring them. It's because they feel intimidated in the presence of very vocal, often antagonistic classmates. These classmates are the ones complaining about censorship, ironically, when they're told by instructors that they're impeding the conversation.

I will generally agree with this, but there are completely antagonistic professors.

 

[Einherjar86]

There are, but they are far fewer in number (and in percentage, I'd venture) than antagonistic students. Social media has made a battlefield of the classroom.

 

[Dak]

Random anecdote relating to antagonistic professors vs students:

There's a student NRA organization at my university (which is apparently kind of rare). I stopped by their table recently and asked how much harassment they get. They said they mostly just get dirty looks from students if there's any negative interaction, but that a professor from the Psych dept had been bashing them on social media etc. within the last year or so, and then blocked people who disagreed. On the upside, they reported that the whole incident netted them a sizable increase in positive student interest.

 

[CiG]

How often do teachers side with the snowflakes in class though? I've heard a lot of anecdotal evidence that they side with them a lot.

 

[Dak]

I've sat through multiple Trump-bashing mini-rants and comments in the last 2 years as a graduate student. I can't imagine the situation is better for undergraduates.

 

[Einherjar86]

How often do teachers side with the snowflakes in class though? I've heard a lot of anecdotal evidence that they side with them a lot.

In this case, most anecdotal evidence is virtually worthless, since the students who go on to complain about being silenced are almost always right-wing sympathizers who want to paint academia in a bad light. The SJWs who are silenced typically don't comment on it, often because they try and talk to their professors afterward. It's the right-wingers who most often claim censorship because they already believe that academia is trying to silence them. For the most part, teachers don't "side" with anyone. It's just a matter of how their interruption is interpreted by the interrupted.

 

[Dak]

For the most part, teachers don't "side" with anyone.

Going to disagree with this in totality. Teachers are no less human than the rest of us.

 

[Einherjar86]

I take siding to be a performative behavior. It has to be socially visible.

A teacher might silently side with students, but in the case of interruptive or distracting comments, a teacher won't usually support or denounce out loud.

 

[CiG]

It's all just a conspiracy to paint academia in a bad light. Got it.

 

[Einherjar86]

 

[CiG]

 

[rms]

teachers, the last noble and impartial profession!

 

[rms]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...ch-hotter-is-your-hometown.html?smid=tw-share

Nashua NH in 1988 : 5 days above 90 per year

Nashua NH in 2018 : 5 days above 90 per year

 

[The Ozzman]

18 vs 24 now for mine

 

[Dak]

56 vs 64. 1 extra week after 3 and a half decades. Meh. Interesting they don't have a cold day comparison. And why pick 90 degrees?