Elsewhere is so much better!
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You know? That’s a really good point. We are international (I’d like it if we had even more people from even more places, but still, international), and do discuss a wide variety of topics.
That’s all the internet was ever supposed to be about.
What this forum is not so good for us keeping track of friends and family, but since it’s not meant for that, that’s cool. IMHO neither is FB though, which is why some people have multiple accounts.
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Well, see, it’s not discrimination, unless it involves genocide, you see… everything else is just opinions, man! /s
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This discrimination, however, does not appear to be driven by gender-specific stereotypes or animus.
It’s what used to be called “benevolent sexism”. They don’t actively hate or think women are bimbos, but just that women are vaguely less capable.
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I just love how the article tries so hard to define a difference:
“With statistical discrimination, you have certain beliefs about men versus women and what they can do, and given those beliefs, you choose the person who you think is the best person to hire. You are simply acting in a way that you think will maximize your profits,” Coffman explains. “With taste-based discrimination, you know a certain person will be productive, but you’re sacrificing that by not hiring that person."
I guess prejudice is somehow only prejudice if you know that the beliefs causing you to discriminate are false?
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The paper’s online.
“When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender”
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-054_3c73e0a0-2821-4728-a700-60006233e380.pdf
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Folau, who is Christian, gave a sermon in his Sydney church on Sunday in which he said Australia’s decision to pass abortion and same-sex marriage laws had gone against “God’s word”, adding the nation needed to “repent”.
“Look how rapid, these bushfires, these droughts, all these things have come, in a short period of time. You think it’s a coincidence or not?,” he said.
I really hope he’s wrong.
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It’s entirely possible that some people are setting fires to fight back against equality.
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Of course he’s wrong. The guy’s a fucking homophobic bigot. Don’t know if the article went into it, but he got fired from a national rugby role for homophobic social media posts. Which he was warned would get him fired if he repeated them. So he did and got fired. Then tried to take Rugby Australia to court for firing him. And he, a millionaire, tried to crowd-fund his defence. He’s a piece of shit and needs to shut the fuck up.
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Oh, yes. I’ve read about him before.
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The thing needed to stop a dumb asshole with a gun is for his house to take it from him.
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He isn’t worrying about anyone breaking in now, is he?
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This reminds me of when I was on a train en route to Toronto from Chicago, and this woman from Michigan was telling her friend about how her three year old kept setting off the pressure plate alarm in the hallway in the middle of the house, because (duh) he’d get up in the middle of the night to use the washroom, like little kids often do.
And all I could think was, having a house alarm is one thing, but what do you need a pressure plate alarm in the middle of the house for?
I just don’t see how anyone could function in a community when they feel their house has to be so heavily fortified.
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That reminds me of Leela in “The Talons of Weng-Chiang.”
LEELA: In a house this size there must be protection. The professor will have weapons in fixed positions to guard the approaches.
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Unless there are grave robbers in the area.
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I don’t know where to put this, but it’s dumb, so here we are.
If you watch the video, she’s walking around in a coat draped over her shoulders, like a cape. You can see it , sort of, in the thumb. It’s bland and unnecessary but fine. The thing is, it could be an actual cape. It would look great if it was a cape and not this I’m-too-rich-to-wear-coats-properly bit she’s doing. She’d be doing more good in the world by bringing back capes than whatever it is she does besides decor. Sigh.
And the other thing is, I gather it’s altogether too cold in the White House if she needs to wear her coat indoors. I’m sure they can afford to heat the place properly, so it must be her vision, and it fits the soulless aesthetic perfectly.
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In this particular instance, it’s the same silhouette as the Russian Imperial family wore from at least the 19th century onwards. She’s been wearing it a lot – a lot of her dresses have the same shape. I couldn’t place it until now.
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