Like so many waves eroding the cliffs of the patriarchy (FEMINISM THREAD)

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Nissin Cup Nudist: Sep 3, 2011; Sleep with one eye open

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Dehumanize yourself and don't have kids

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Nissin Cup Nudist: Sep 3, 2011; Sleep with one eye open

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Fart of Darkness posted:

I'm going through and reading the texts listed in the OP, and it's it's been really enriching. Thanks for all of this information, I've really been enjoying the thread!

I work in a university and my department recently had a woman take charge after the guy from before retired. It's been really surprising how people react to her being in charge or for knowing her poo poo. We had a meeting with a guy high up in administration and he "little ladied" her the entire time and directed his questions to a male professor instead of her the entire time. It was pretty unbelievable, and I'm sure it's not the first time she's had to deal with that. I don't know how she kept her cool, (I probably would have stormed out or something dumb) but she did, and the meeting went well despite that guy being a dick.

Seeing that stuff in person made me realize that most women have that extra burden on them on top of the same burdens a man would face in the same position in a way classes and textbooks never cemented. I also naively thought a progressive strongholds like universities wouldn't have to be as vigilant about that kind of thing. I've been trying to be a better and more vocal feminist since.

they're really not outside of some student stuff

The management of academia is arguably the most stuffy old white dude place on the planet

Nissin Cup Nudist fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Jan 3, 2017

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 21:16

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Uncle Jam posted:

For women in STEM, I wonder how the costs of tuition are going to affect that. I already feel like American born students in STEM PhD degrees is cratering, I think partially due to tuition costs. The last hire in my dept was a foreign guy who drove to his first day of a 90k/yr entry level job in a tricked out Benz.

Riding that bachelor's debt all the way through your PhD is scary, I wonder if it unequally impacts decision based on gender.

I think its a combo of debt and a lack of use for a PhD. A PhD is good for

a) Academia
b) high end research

The Academia job market is a complete dumpster fire and you could have spent the last 5+ years slaving away on a PhD working your way up the corporate food chain instead for a research gig. Combined with grad programs that treat its students like garbagemen, why bother?

stone cold posted:

You know, I genuinely think it's a sexist thing, because how many media portrayals have we seen of teen dudes being all awkward about getting the talk.

I would've loved the talk!

I'm a dude and never got the talk. My parents never inquired about my (lack of) girlfriends either. Good thing I was lazy and incapable of getting a date if I was the literal last man on earth.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 23:25

Nissin Cup Nudist: Sep 3, 2011; Sleep with one eye open

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Hillary Clinton lost for a couple different reasons, but her god awful incompetent campaign was the yuge one. I want to believe Hillary is a smart person but just about every single campaign decision turned out to be mindboggling stupid.

If you lived in Wisconsin or Michigan, why on Earth would you vote for the person that didn't bother to visit your state once. Or actively hostile to the people that were. Someone post that Politico article.

Nissin Cup Nudist fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Jan 8, 2017

# ¿ Jan 8, 2017 15:49

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Who What Now posted:

I'm not saying her election was perfect or that she couldn't have done much more to campaign in the Midwest, but saying she never visited Michigan is, in fact, completely and undeniably made up.

I was referring to the Politico article with the Michigan bit, my bad.

She did never visit Wisconsin after the primary tho

e: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/michigan-hillary-clinton-trump-232547 everything is just :stare:

Nissin Cup Nudist fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Jan 8, 2017

# ¿ Jan 8, 2017 18:42

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hit button posted:

The legal observations were just meant to be an answer to deceitful penguin's original question:

And looking at the wording of the act it seems an obvious point of argument for the defence.

All of which has no bearing on whether watching porn on a bus is antisocial behavior which deserves public shaming (it is, and it does).

So is porn bad because its obscene/harassment/etc or because it is "anti-social?" Is watching the sportsball game instead of porn also anti-social? Or sending dirty text messages?

Its the bus, who actually wants to interact with the rando next to them on the bus?

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 17:10

Nissin Cup Nudist: Sep 3, 2011; Sleep with one eye open

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Why can't Martha Coakley win an election to save her life?

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 18:26

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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:

You're mad at her hurling an unconstructive insult at... LeJackal? I think you might not be aware what you're defending here. Unconstructive insults start to fly when one party can make the safe assumption this isn't in good faith.

so everybody should have an encyclopedic knowledge of every other poster?

last time I bothered to read LeJackal posts', he was just a run-of-the-mill gun nut. Did something change?

# ¿ Jan 21, 2017 22:44

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pookel posted:

This was the crowd at the capitol:

That's me in the back with the "Rebellions are built on hope" sign. (Also, note the golden retriever in the pink sweater on top of the vehicle in the back. Not sure why they were up there ...)

For Bismarck, ND that is a huge crowd. It's a very red state, we skew elderly and conservative, there's no significant four-year university anywhere near, and the population is not keen on protesting in general. Local organizers hoped to get 400 people, and they got around 700. All our speakers except one were Native American women. Unfortunately I didn't hear a lot of the speeches because I was in the far back and the sound wasn't good. The state director for Planned Parenthood spoke, and she was great - she had a lot of practical advice about talking to local legislators and getting involved locally. There's a We Rise training event in a couple of months that everyone was invited to, and I'm hoping to go.

How far away are UND and NDSU? I know one's in Fargo, which I think is on the MN border.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 07:57

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