Sexism you have personally experienced or have heard of? *READ POST 1*

The Specialist

Calhoun wrote: »

The brilliant thing is most male feminists are about 2-3 rejections away from turning incel.

I wonder if 20-30 years down the line we will have lonely old male feminist who regret consuming the kool-aid.

I watched a youtube video recently about a guy tweeting that he ruined his own date because his date (female) wasn't a big enough feminist for him.

Can’t stand them in any shape or form, women aren’t falling over themselves because some white knight has emasculated himself to “fight the cause”. Pathetic creatures and that is putting it mildly.

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"I wonder if 20-30 years down the line we will have lonely old male feminist who regret consuming the kool-aid_"

Joss whedon

tritium

The Specialist wrote: »

Quote from the article:



Wonder what this clown has to say about Captain Marvel then if he looks at that through the same lense? Probably nothing because she's female so the same standards don't apply.

Give me The Matrix any day of the week over whatever woke bull**** this guy is feeding on. There's only one thing worse than a rabid feminist and that's a self loathing male feminist.

Well of course the same standards wouldn’t apply. This is his review of the Force Awakens

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151216-film-review-star-wars-the-force-awakens-gets-four-stars

Apparently one dimensional messiah figures are only a problem when they’re white males..

What an absolute clown

backspin.

I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed. Its astonishing the change in personnel on news and current affairs programs today compared to 10 or 20 years ago. I have been watching a lot of this brexit stuff lately and i notice far far more women than men newsreaders, reporters, expert contributors, panels etc. It has to be deliberate. It doesn't look much like equality to me.

Calhoun

In RTE it is deliberate, they have had a diversity program in place for a while.

The J Stands for Jay

tritium wrote: »

This is an interesting one, not so much a massive sexism issue as part of the acceptable “have a dig at men” that the bbc are getting so good at

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190319-the-matrixs-male-power-fantasy-has-dated-badly


It’s not so much that the premise is flawed as how narrow it is. Essentially their argument reduces to (I) Neo is a Mary Sue and (ii). White male being amazing is wrong. The problem of course is their criticisms of the movie are largely more valid for a sub genre of female lead action movies. Take the current Star Wars series, where the female hero is just landed on us as a ready to go bad-ass. The piece essentially reduces itself to a smug “don’t we know better now” effort from someone who hasn’t figured out yet how dated their own world view is likely to be in a decade or two.

The article has been altered. Looks like someone forgot to check their privilege and remember intersectionality:

"This article has been amended to remove a line referring to the character Neo as a ‘white male saviour’. The actor Keanu Reeves has mixed-race ancestry. "

citytillidie

Female rapper admits to drugging and robbing men and people are defending her

Calhoun

citytillidie wrote: »

Female rapper admits to drugging and robbing men and people are defending her

Hold on there, Liam Neeson a white man said he was angry with a black person and was going to do damage but was calmed down. That's the real news story because white male supremacy is a terrible thing.

This female rapper was just an empowered down on her luck woman of color.

iptba

citytillidie wrote: »

Female rapper admits to drugging and robbing men and people are defending her

Who is this?

The J Stands for Jay

iptba wrote: »

Who is this?

Cardi B?

iptba

McGaggs wrote: »

Cardi B?

Thanks. Sounds like it is her:
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/3/27/18284220/cardi-b-drug-rob-controversy-scandal

H3llR4iser

So...something weird I experienced last Friday evening; Puzzling / curious, probably, more than anything else.

So, I was walking back home; Sometimes, if the weather is good or I happen to miss the Malahide train, I just step off the DART at Howth Junction and walk the 15-odd minutes way home. It goes through a residential estate, a small park/garden, then my own residential area of which I am at the very end.

It wasn't completely dark yet, around 7.15-7.30pm, I was walking listening to music, not really paying much attention to the surroundings. As I entered the little park between estates there were two smallish kids, both girls probably less than 10 years old, walking some ~20 metres ahead of me - I didn't really pay much attention to them, until one of them turns around, looks at me, pushes her friend along and they literally run away.

They went quite a bit of way ahead, past a junction in the path, then stopped staring at me until they realized I was turning the other direction. On the moment I thought "silly children shenanigans" but...thinking about it later on, it's just as likely that somebody in school or at home has basically taught them to be scared of guys. I don't know, maybe they would've done the same even if it was a woman walking there, but in this day and age I can't shake the feeling. It's all good that "kids be safe" and "don't approach strangers", but this was a bit much.

I can't help thinking that chances are...they went home to tell a tale of a "scary man" going after them; you can't discount the possibility, and can just be sure they'd be taken seriously nowadays. Just putting this here more as a reflection than anything else, really...just makes you think how easy it is, in this context, to literally walk into situations that can be quite dangerous - stay alert, guys.

SlowBlowin

H3llR4iser wrote: »

So...something weird I experienced last Friday evening; Puzzling / curious, probably, more than anything else.

So, I was walking back home; Sometimes, if the weather is good or I happen to miss the Malahide train, I just step off the DART at Howth Junction and walk the 15-odd minutes way home. It goes through a residential estate, a small park/garden, then my own residential area of which I am at the very end.

It wasn't completely dark yet, around 7.15-7.30pm, I was walking listening to music, not really paying much attention to the surroundings. As I entered the little park between estates there were two smallish kids, both girls probably less than 10 years old, walking some ~20 metres ahead of me - I didn't really pay much attention to them, until one of them turns around, looks at me, pushes her friend along and they literally run away.

They went quite a bit of way ahead, past a junction in the path, then stopped staring at me until they realized I was turning the other direction. On the moment I thought "silly children shenanigans" but...thinking about it later on, it's just as likely that somebody in school or at home has basically taught them to be scared of guys. I don't know, maybe they would've done the same even if it was a woman walking there, but in this day and age I can't shake the feeling. It's all good that "kids be safe" and "don't approach strangers", but this was a bit much.

I can't help thinking that chances are...they went home to tell a tale of a "scary man" going after them; you can't discount the possibility, and can just be sure they'd be taken seriously nowadays. Just putting this here more as a reflection than anything else, really...just makes you think how easy it is, in this context, to literally walk into situations that can be quite dangerous - stay alert, guys.

Were you wearing your hellraizor mask ?

Padraig Mor

H3llR4iser wrote: »

So...something weird I experienced last Friday evening; Puzzling / curious, probably, more than anything else.

So, I was walking back home; Sometimes, if the weather is good or I happen to miss the Malahide train, I just step off the DART at Howth Junction and walk the 15-odd minutes way home. It goes through a residential estate, a small park/garden, then my own residential area of which I am at the very end.

It wasn't completely dark yet, around 7.15-7.30pm, I was walking listening to music, not really paying much attention to the surroundings. As I entered the little park between estates there were two smallish kids, both girls probably less than 10 years old, walking some ~20 metres ahead of me - I didn't really pay much attention to them, until one of them turns around, looks at me, pushes her friend along and they literally run away.

They went quite a bit of way ahead, past a junction in the path, then stopped staring at me until they realized I was turning the other direction. On the moment I thought "silly children shenanigans" but...thinking about it later on, it's just as likely that somebody in school or at home has basically taught them to be scared of guys. I don't know, maybe they would've done the same even if it was a woman walking there, but in this day and age I can't shake the feeling. It's all good that "kids be safe" and "don't approach strangers", but this was a bit much.

I can't help thinking that chances are...they went home to tell a tale of a "scary man" going after them; you can't discount the possibility, and can just be sure they'd be taken seriously nowadays. Just putting this here more as a reflection than anything else, really...just makes you think how easy it is, in this context, to literally walk into situations that can be quite dangerous - stay alert, guys.

Reminds me of when I spent some time working in Reading in the UK 20 years ago. I had a ~2 mile walk to work, including a single long straight road of approx a mile (main route through a residential area). One morning I happened to walk down that road several paces behind a young-ish girl - 13/14/15 kinda age IIRC. After a while I noticed that she started making occasional furtive glances behind her looking increasingly worried. Eventually she turned into a house (I got the impression it was just at random) and I noticed she was crying as I went past. Way to make a poor guy going to work feel like a pedo!

The J Stands for Jay

In today's Indo, the director of Rape Crisis Network Ireland says "We really need to say that young boys can also be a danger to you girls..." "It has shifted that focus from... ...that dirty old man kind of image we have."

Lovely.

gizmo555

McGaggs wrote: »

In today's Indo, the director of Rape Crisis Network Ireland says "We really need to say that young boys can also be a danger to you girls..." "It has shifted that focus from... ...that dirty old man kind of image we have."

Lovely.

And this is how this kind of attitude can end up:

The parents of a seven-year-old boy against whom an unfounded allegation of sex abuse was made claim that the way the school principal over-reacted, and Tusla’s absolute refusal to delete the file, has ‘destroyed’ their lives, writes Michael Clifford.

One day in 2017, two seven-year-old children had a typically innocent encounter in a school playground. The ultimate outcome of the incident, which lasted for about a second, has been trauma for one of the families, serious questions around training for school principals, and whether or not it is correct that a record be kept on a child wrongly accused of “sexual abuse”.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/specialreports/tusla-playing-a-dangerous-game-with-childrens-lives-914276.html

freshpopcorn

A lady who was surprised that I could cook.

Calhoun

freshpopcorn wrote: »

A lady who was surprised that I could cook.

You better be able to pop some mighty fine corn or i am disappointed in that name.

Shemale

Perifect wrote: »

It's the truth! Anger ties people up and is very unhealthy.

Tell the "feminists"

Shemale

Calhoun wrote: »

I watched a youtube video recently about a guy tweeting that he ruined his own date because his date (female) wasn't a big enough feminist for him.

So he tweeted that he, as a man, deliberately ruined a womans night because he aligns with feminism.

Calhoun

Shemale wrote: »

So he tweeted that he, as a man, deliberately ruined a womans night because he aligns with feminism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxNqB74O-f0

...Ghost...

I was browsing the jobs market when I came across THIS.

The drive to get women into STEM is not just OTT, it is now discriminating against men.

If you don't want to read the linked content, the short story is that McAfee has a female only scholarship for leaving cert students. I looked, there was no male scholarships available. At the end of the post, they say they prohibit discrimination based on age, race, religion, gender etc etc. How is this scholarship not discrimination?

I emailed them about their post and sought clarification on their discrimination policy and have yet receive a reply.

py2006

Its amazing how they can get away with that.

hots

...Ghost... wrote: »

I was browsing the jobs market when I came across THIS.

The drive to get women into STEM is not just OTT, it is now discriminating against men.

If you don't want to read the linked content, the short story is that McAfee has a female only scholarship for leaving cert students. I looked, there was no male scholarships available. At the end of the post, they say they prohibit discrimination based on age, race, religion, gender etc etc. How is this scholarship not discrimination?

I emailed them about their post and sought clarification on their discrimination policy and have yet receive a reply.

There are loads of examples of positive discrimination unfortunately. They should be removing all barriers to entry not creating artificial ones to hamstring men.

...Ghost...

...Ghost... wrote: »

I was browsing the jobs market when I came across THIS.

The drive to get women into STEM is not just OTT, it is now discriminating against men.

If you don't want to read the linked content, the short story is that McAfee has a female only scholarship for leaving cert students. I looked, there was no male scholarships available. At the end of the post, they say they prohibit discrimination based on age, race, religion, gender etc etc. How is this scholarship not discrimination?

I emailed them about their post and sought clarification on their discrimination policy and have yet receive a reply.

McKesson have something similar

http://cs.cit.ie/mckesson-scholarship

lemansky

Intel have a female only scholarship too, from memory.

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McGaggs wrote: »

In today's Indo, the director of Rape Crisis Network Ireland says "We really need to say that young boys can also be a danger to you girls..." "It has shifted that focus from... ...that dirty old man kind of image we have."

Lovely.

Yes, it is very healthy to make young girls even more afraid of being violently attacked.

I lived in a country where the local women didn't really like feminism. They saw it as condescending, silly or just not really relevant. Yet, you would see women going out for runs at every hour of the night. They were surprised when I asked if they felt nervous coming home at 3 or 4 am, or going to a strangers house.

You know, surprisingly, portraying all men as potential attackers may not be healthy for women's feeling of personal safety :P

terryduff12

Anyone listening to the joe duffy show last few days about Pregnant women and the issues they have had with nurses and midwifes in hospitals, Doesn't paint women in a very good light since the majority of the staff are women.

givyjoe

terryduff12 wrote: »

Anyone listening to the joe duffy show last few days about Pregnant women and the issues they have had with nurses and midwifes in hospitals, Doesn't paint women in a very good light since the majority of the staff are women.

Care to elaborate?

Silentcorner

Its about to get a lot worse...the state is putting pressure on the private sector to release their "gender pay gap"...interestingly, nothing about the "hours worked gender gap"...this pressure will lead to fines, mark my words.

Private sector companies will soon be given targets to get women into senior positions in private companies....this is happening, the hard left element of feminism is starting to breach into private companies....this is socialism!!

Will the state compensate the owners of private companies that reach those targets if they go out of business? Will the f##k!!!

You can have equality or you can have the free market economy but you cannot have both!