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Aphtonites posted:
I don't know why, but the whole "don't disrespect women" thing always bothered me. Women's Day is more to showcase famous women in STEM, literature, and arts, or to bring awareness of problems facing women around the world (pay inequality, rape, etc). 'Respecting women' sounds so chivalrous, like opening a door for a woman or saying ma'am. It just seems to oversimplify or even downplay serious issues women face in the world. The worst are the women who post "I AM A LADY RESPECT ME" when what they mean is, 'gentlemen should treat me nicely because of some antiquated notion of gender"
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into the void posted:I don't know why, but the whole "don't disrespect women" thing always bothered me. Women's Day is more to showcase famous women in STEM, literature, and arts, or to bring awareness of problems facing women around the world (pay inequality, rape, etc). 'Respecting women' sounds so chivalrous, like opening a door for a woman or saying ma'am. It just seems to oversimplify or even downplay serious issues women face in the world. The worst are the women who post "I AM A LADY RESPECT ME" when what they mean is, 'gentlemen should treat me nicely because of some antiquated notion of gender" M'lady. *tips hat*
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Mar 8, 2014 19:32
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Richard Dawkins decided to be a dick on Twitter again, this time towards Muslim women: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/442363441740009472
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Zeether posted:I ended up unliking them after they posted an image saying Obama spent his youth smoking weed in Hawaii while Putin was more successful. Smoking your weight in weed is pretty much what you do if you go to Punahou. Well, that and cross-dress.
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Zeether posted:Richard Dawkins decided to be a dick on Twitter again, this time towards Muslim women: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/442363441740009472 I think he's going after the religious extremism that swept over the area that forced women into that situation than the women themselves.
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I certainly can't think of anything else that happened between 1972 and 2012 in Afghanistan besides Islam continuing to exist
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Zeether posted:Richard Dawkins decided to be a dick on Twitter again, this time towards Muslim women: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/442363441740009472 Yeah protip the women in both of those pictures are muslim so maybe it's not the religion itself that's the problem dawkins.
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Oraculum Animi posted:I think he's going after the religious extremism that swept over the area that forced women into that situation than the women themselves.  drat Islamists with their tanks and bombs and thousands of Russian troops. You'd almost think society collapsed after a hostile invasion, triggering a brutal civil war, or something.
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Mar 8, 2014 21:00
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Zeether posted:Richard Dawkins decided to be a dick on Twitter again, this time towards Muslim women: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/442363441740009472 Always relevant: 
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Captain Pissweak posted:It's just been making things a bit awkward when all the ladies try to hit on him, and he has to explain. He just wants to streamline the process. He just feels so guilty for always saying "Nay".
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Zeether posted:Richard Dawkins decided to be a dick on Twitter again, this time towards Muslim women: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/442363441740009472 At some point in Dick Dorkin's life, he decided to go from respected biologist and evolutionary theorist with sound ideas, an accessible way of communicating difficult concepts to the public and a sound grasp of what rapidly became the "dawkinsian synthesis" where his formulations of mutation, significance and drift became the industry standard for evolutionary biologists into some shambling king-of-the-reddit-athiests. WHAT THE gently caress MAN! Blind Watchmaker is as hell of a book, his arguments with Gould touch on some of the cornerstones of reality relayed through the biology of organisms all around us. This is a man who said more about the nature of evolution and the very essence of who we are with a random computer program and "methinks tis like a weasel" than any other biologist in the 20th century. And now he is Dick Dorkins, utter and complete loving twat.
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lenoon posted:At some point in Dick Dorkin's life, he decided to go from respected biologist and evolutionary theorist with sound ideas, an accessible way of communicating difficult concepts to the public and a sound grasp of what rapidly became the "dawkinsian synthesis" where his formulations of mutation, significance and drift became the industry standard for evolutionary biologists into some shambling king-of-the-reddit-athiests. A lot of academics are incredibly goony goons no matter how smart and respected they are
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Yeah James Watson is about as big of a dickwad as Dawkins, but with the excuse of being a bit older.
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Considering how much he revved up his anti-Islam crap after the whole Rebecca Watson fiasco, I've always figured it was because, like so many smart but socially sheltered men, he was incensed that people could be mad at him and his super logical friends when obviously the MOOSLIMS were so much worse.
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Mar 9, 2014 01:51
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Dawkins wrote great books on evolutionary biology, and it's quite a pity that he's ruining himself by being a colossal douchebag.
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Dawkins is a dick and there is plenty to complain about him, but I don't think he's really wrong about islam being oppressive towards women.
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Apogee15 posted:Dawkins is a dick and there is plenty to complain about him, but I don't think he's really wrong about islam being oppressive towards women. Certainly there are misogynistic beliefs and practices in Islam, and misogynist Islamic societies, but again, the women in the first picture were also Muslim. And, even if the US is in many ways a progressive country for women's right, the party that holds one of the chambers of congress is itself as dedicated to repressing women as basically any Islamic society, bar Saudi Arabia. Dawkins singles out Islam as a singular moral evil. The reason why he does that is because he's a racist, bigoted old man who scorns others for sins his own community commits, which he tries to minimize.
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Apogee15 posted:Dawkins is a dick and there is plenty to complain about him, but I don't think he's really wrong about islam being oppressive towards women. Only the more extreme and fundamentalist forms, which is also true of Christianity and many other religions.
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Because he is using those comparative pictures of Afghanistan to say see what happens when islam comes in but ignores the fact it was a country of islamic peoples in both pictures, what those pictures actually show is the devastating effect the cold war had on afghanistan, both from the russian invasion and the us proxy war fought within it which completely obliterated the country and directly led to fanatics and hyper regressives ruling the country
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I'm pretty sure he's far more anti-Islam than pro-women.
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karl fungus posted:I'm pretty sure he's far more anti-Islam than pro-women. 100% agree
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but soviets were atheits and were obviously superior so somethin something a-rabs are bad. For content: if you non-ironically thinks the following music video is deep or 'makes u think', you're an idiot! And you shouldn't have to dig very deep to figure out why CPS is always on your case! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2frJ3e0hxPE lyrics posted:There’s fluoride in the water but nobody know that that line about obama is pretty  but it gets even more  Dr Internet, MD posted:The Bird Flu is a lie, the Swine Flu is a lie 
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Yeah I wouldn't take your political opinions from hip hop videos, especially ones by Vinnie Paz that open with a clip of David Icke (even if it's one of the more sane David Icke quotes).
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 A bit of homophobia   I do wonder why libertarians are so desperate to risk the lives of people  This is just too perfect
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Goddamn, it even has the same cropping that I intended to post. NightWig, how did you come to know this stellar example of the human race?
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Mar 9, 2014 06:47
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Isn't the MLP world an absolute monarchy.
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Byzantine posted:Isn't the MLP world an absolute monarchy. Yes but their benevolent dictator is universally loved and highly qualified and also it's a goddamned children's show ugh
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This feels like a trap sprung except for the unfortunate fact the trapper knows enough about mlp to set it
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Kavak posted:Goddamn, it even has the same cropping that I intended to post. Through a friend really, and he didn't seem crazy then.
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NightWig posted:Through a friend really, and he didn't seem crazy then. Did you just find him at a good time or did he slide into madness?
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Kavak posted:Did you just find him at a good time or did he slide into madness? The most likely thing is that he hid his madness.
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NightWig posted:madness. The perfect segue into  lovely cropping? Check. Unintelligible artifacts? Check. Clearly repurposed image as evidence by mis-matched fonts? Oh yeah. Bonus 
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Apogee15 posted:Dawkins is a dick and there is plenty to complain about him, but I don't think he's really wrong about islam being oppressive towards women. It's not any more or less oppressive towards women than Christianity or Judaism is, in and of itself. Most of the poo poo it says about women is the same poo poo that the bible and the torah says (except some of the hadiths which are a whole other thing). It's only very recently that not oppressing women has even been a thing in modern christian nations, and we've benefited from being a hell of a lot more stable and un-hosed up by war and poverty for the most part, which is a much bigger difference than the religion issue.
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Byzantine posted:Isn't the MLP world an absolute monarchy. All the fawning about Putin has shown that american conservatives would be absolutely fine with an authoritarian dictator as long as he shares their views on guns, shirtlessness, and gay people.
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Perestroika posted:All the fawning about Putin has shown that american conservatives would be absolutely fine with an authoritarian dictator as long as he shares their views on guns, shirtlessness, and gay people. I'll just leave this piece of ancient internet treasure here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf0KlzUpLUM "They're like Hitler, only moreso! We'll rub their oil on our torso." Still kind of racist even though it's making fun of GWB 
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NightWig posted:
Steampunk and fedoras? I can understand steampunk and top hats (and gears (and goggles (and gears on goggles))), but isn't steampunk supposed to be an 1870's kind of thing? That should be more Deadwood than Casablanca.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Steampunk and fedoras? I can understand steampunk and top hats (and gears (and goggles (and gears on goggles))), but isn't steampunk supposed to be an 1870's kind of thing? That should be more Deadwood than Casablanca. The fedora apparently rose to popularity in 1889 after a play starring Bernhardt who played 'Princess Fedora' that wore the hat that became known as the fedora. So I guess it fits the steampunk time period, and is probably more suited as an icon of that time than a top hat really *shrug* Of course, it's probably more that the type of people into steampunk are the sort of losers into fedoras, rather than the history of the hat and them being 'historically accurate'.
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SybilVimes posted:The fedora apparently rose to popularity in 1889 after a play starring Bernhardt who played 'Princess Fedora' that wore the hat that became known as the fedora. Right, but during that period it was pretty much a woman's hat (being worn by Princess Fedora and all). It didn't go unisex and gain popularity with men until the early 1900s. Which I suppose could still be considered a steampunk period, but considering the only pictures these people ever use to illustrate how ~manly and adult~ the fedora is happen to come from the 1940's and 50's (when it really became popular), it's possible they actually don't know. But I think he's really just saying "Hats are important to the genre of steampunk", which is hilarious by itself because it's like saying "Boots are important to the genre of fantasy."
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