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SentinelSlain
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The way in which we decide what elements of culture belong to a certain group and which are universal is more or less down to popular culture, rather than some particularly moral system. Neckties come from Croatia. How dare people wear ties, what about the Croatians. Apple Pie came from England (or that region of Europe generally), how dare Americans carry on eating it after independence. Is culture only important for people whose cultures have failed to deliver?
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This idea of "cultural appropriation" being a terrible thing is one more grasp at new straws in piety wars among SJWs. It's kind of encouraging, along with "microaggresions": it most likely means the movement is beginning to consume itself.
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That reminds me of a time handing out candy when I was 15 or so. Some girl probably a year or two older than me rang the doorbell in a skimpy cop uniform, and her breasts were absolutely pouring out of her top. Like, aside from one student in one of my labs, I've never seen that much feminine flesh in real life before. Helped that at the door I was standing a full step above her too. I have a feeling the trick-or-treater was OK with being objectified.
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Not much of a story to tell. She came in every week with her boobs barely contained within her dress, and usually left them exposed even with her lab coat on. Literally more cleavage than the average porn star playing a student. She had a kind of ditzy personality (not making this up; she'd cheer pretty much every time an experiment went well, doing a little jump/dance causing significant jiggle), but she was actually pretty smart, and was the only student in her section with entirely perfect lab reports. Admittedly she'd often check her reports with me before lab began, meaning things like leaning over the bench or standing right beside me, holding her report right in front of me basically forcing my eyes in that general direction. Honestly no grading bias though, and she had very tidy penmanship too. Last day of lab (check out/no long pants required) she wore a miniskirt as well. I feel creepy for remembering all of this in detail and writing it here, but it's not the kind of thing I expect to experience again so lol.
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tbh on some level I can empathize with that if she's being genuine. Shame is a great emotion that allows people to keep themselves in check, which is the most efficient area to place a control loop. The problem comes in when people see privilege as something immutable. For example, books aren't that expensive. I bet those families where the children have no books to read still have easy access to cable television; instead of saying "Oh, I don't deserve the privilege of parents that took an interest in my education", she should say "It's disgusting that parents exist that don't seek to maximize their children's upbringing". But that triggers people into crying about muh eugenics so nothing ever happens to fix the problem.
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Unfortunately for progs, no amount welfare will get people to "tell their kids they love them" or get them to "have books in the house". I'd be interested in what other non-buyable things were listed off in the "walk".
Satanstoenail
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So this year was the first year since 1998 that we down here in Australia had an all female racing team compete in the Bathurst 1000 V8 supercars at Mount Panorama, which is a long, high endurance car race that has been around for many years and is ingrained in blokey Australian culture. When asked about the team in an interview, one of the top male drivers said "oh, you mean the pussy wagon?". This comment didn't go down very well and the driver got fined $25,000. Dick Johnson (yep that's his name), who is one of the top old school drivers from the seventies and eighties, said that they'd be "a million to one chance of finishing the race". So the girls set out to show the boys what's what but and promptly put their car into a wall early on. The driver also cried when interviewedback at the pits. They did manage to repair the car and finish though. So that's a small victory for feminism I guess.
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Feminists don't understand comparative advantage. Or averages. Or really fuckall as far as I can estimate. I'm not in favor of legislating women to sandwich making in perpetuity: There are women that are very deserving of all sorts of careers and accomplishments that are in domains where men (in general) have natural advantages. But the flipside is that we don't need to be legislating an equal distribution among the sexes in anything, nor do we need to be pushing "more women into STEM" or "more men to stay at home" or any other number of androgynization efforts. Give people the legal freedom to pursue their natural bent, or situational advantage, and stop insisting we achieve a 50/50 sexual split in every category, by handicapping if necessary.
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Depends on what "pushing" means. Anecdotal, but many of my best students have been female and my worst ones male. Of course, general chemistry is very different from, say, differential equations, but I think getting more women (and thereby more people in general) into STEM is feasible with the right incentives. The problem is that many women benefit from sexism just as men do, and have no problem being financially supported by a man.
Satanstoenail
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I was hoping for Mort to get offended and a couple of people to laugh at my dumb story or something. This thread sucks
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