Rolling 'this is sexist' thread

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For Immediate Release
College Girls Are Paying Tuition Bills with Their Social Networking Skills on MyGirlFund

LOS ANGELES, CA-- Jul 25, 2013 - MyGirlFund.com reports that young female college students on summer break are flocking to its website. While students aged 18-22 normally comprise 25% of the adult social network's 6,000 plus female member base, since the academic year ended over 500 matriculating college students have joined. MyGirlFund's Stefan Patrick says the trend suggests that young women are pursuing creative ways of earning tuition money in the face of a sluggish summer job market.
According to a recent ABC news report, only half of young adults will be able to find summer employment. Meanwhile, college tuition and student loan costs have skyrocketed. "Members list their financial goals when they join," Patrick says, "and the new coeds are vocal about their tuition needs. One new member penned the memorable line, 'When good girls can't pay their tuition, anything can happen,' on her profile, but overall these are young women who would never consider stripping, porn or public group cam shows."
They are attracted to MyGirlFund, Patrick says, because it empowers them as autonomous economic agents in a social networking setting that is similar to mainstream sites like Facebook. "The young women joining our site," Patrick says, "appreciate the total autonomy we grant them. They are free to set their own prices for the content and interaction they chose to provide. They work when they want to from the privacy of their own homes. They also appreciate the extra steps we take to ensure that what happens on MyGirlFund stays on MyGirlFund. We operate the site as a closed, private environment so members don't have to worry about exposure or leaked content. Our female members are comfortable and guys respond positively to confident, expressive and goal-driven women."
As far as how much college students are earning on MyGirlFund, Patrick says it is a function of time and effort. "We know that a number of young women have earned degrees, undergraduate and graduate, with the contributions they receive on MyGirlFund and that many others are able to support their families. At the very least, the new girls will be able to partially defray exorbitant tuition costs while doing what many are likely already doing on social media sites like Facebook, tumblr and Instagram."

and then the url and contact and exactly what you'd expect.

Yes, mygirlfund is a legitimate, US based company dedicated to helping both our male and female members achieve their goals and fulfill their desires in a safe and fun environment. Mygirlfund has been around since 2007 and has processed millions of transactions.

misread that as "my girlfriend" and first and thought, well, corporations are people my friend.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/31/bomb-threats-twitter-journalists

http://jezebel.com/dont-ignore-the-trolls-feed-them-until-they-explode-977453815

gold mine, here: http://valleywag.gawker.com/who-gave-this-asshole-6-5-million-to-launch-a-bro-tast-1134693292

sorry everyone, this has been a bad day: https://www.facebook.com/WomenGetItFree?hc_location=stream

almost linked that here last week

pretty horrifying - http://gawker.com/teacher-gets-just-30-days-in-jail-for-raping-14-year-ol-1211602945?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

this is sexist unconscionable

no way. this must get thrown out.

the headline makes it seem pretty awful and then the details are just so much worse than you can possibly imagine

That promotion for a pay money to teenage girls to see their sex videos site (but they're actually funding collge degrees!) - kind of an object lesson in 'empowerment-washing', a new thing a bit like white-washing or green-washing

still really pissed abt an acquaintance of mine. last night was out w/ a bunch of ppl and a fried who is a v. smart roboticist doing v. cool things with swarms of 'em is there. she discusses a bit about difficulties of being in a male field, etc, but also how they're working to hire women in academia, etc. other dude starts being holier than tho about if you 'really want gender parity' and also starts to keep bringing up that he is brown and has a hard time with airplane security checks (nb. she is asian). also starts talking about 'men explaining my field to me' tumblr. ok fine. then later as she's talking about her research of course he starts explaining her field to her, going on and on about math (he knows quite a bit, but only has an undergrad degree, i think, and certainly no real world experience w. robotics) and talking about how a 'serious mathematician' would handle the various hamiltonian manifold this and that. i was appalled. he's young and arrogant but i don't think he'd have ever been that much of a dick to a man.

oh and he mentions some technique in algebraic geometry and she says 'yeah i don't really know how to apply that' and he says "xxx (her husband) can help you with that." Why would he be able to help? He's in the same field as her, but there's no reason to think that he knows more about that sort of math -- if anything, she's got more of a background in that field.

just tremendously depressing.

kick him in the balls

asymptotically approach kicking him in the balls

Did the woman in this sitch share her thoughts on his behavior? Could you tell in the moment how she felt about it??

my impression is she thought he was being a dumb child, and sort of rolling her eyes, but i didn't get a chance to discuss with her afterwards. i tried to diffuse and just steer the conversation away from him being an ass, wasn't under the impression that white-knighting or w/e would be appreciated.

It's hard, when you are a direct person, not to be direct on others' behalves if they haven't done it themselves!

http://givenbreath.com/2013/09/03/fyi-if-youre-a-teenage-girl/

had to close the page after I scrolled past all these 3/4 naked boys, disgusting

uuuugh

looooooooool I can't.

Did you know that once a male sees you in a state of undress, he can’t ever un-see it? You don’t want the Hall boys to only think of you in this sexual way, do you?

mh otm. "RUN to your accounts and take down anything that makes it easy for your male friends to imagine you naked in your bedroom." *posts shirtless pictures of sons*

it seems fake!

a person i know actually posted that on facebook saying "yes, this is how i want to raise my future sons." um lol

Dear girls, plz hide yr dirty pillows, thx Carrie's Mom

it's definitely not fake http://givenbreath.com/2013/08/28/pouting-around-the-fringe/

these commenters have absolutely no sense of irony, no idea that "double standard" isn't a phrase that can ever be used constructively, and that they're perpetuating the idea that women's bodies are warped by the male gaze

brb salting the earth

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"Counseling the Homosexual"

good luck raising teenage sons not to perv on girls' facebook photos

http://givenbreath.com/about-kim/

does 'ransacking' have a partic meaning among christians i don't know about?

teenage boys will perv on furniture catalogs ffs

haw, their fleeting moments of perving have to happen in the presence of mom and dad. you can imagine them arguing that the pictures weren't actually "slutty" so that the parents would't delete them and they'd get to see them next week during family facebook time

of course she's part of a texas megachurch

kind of wonder if that mom doesn't have a slight discomfort with her sons being interested in women other than her

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/texas-truck-decal-woman_n_3881700.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/education/harvard-case-study-gender-equity.html?hpw

Section G, X smdh at you

University frost week chant about raping underage girls in a city where a young girl committed suicide earlier this year after being gang raped and having pictures circulated by the rapists. Unfuckingbelievable: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2013/09/05/ns-saint-marys-video-apology.html

“A lot of them showed a ton of remorse for their actions. Many of them ended up crying, speechless, jaw drops, and they’re very disappointed by their actions. It’s one of those things that you don’t realize until after the fact.”

I was going to take the piss out of this, but... I guess there is something in it, a la mass hysteria/Milgram experiment/general peer pressure.

This, on the other hand:

“It wasn't a big deal to me. I’m not a feminist kind of person. It didn’t affect me personally,” said second-year psychology student Amanda Fougere.

FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FUCK.

i attend a canadian university, organising hitler youth esque rallies & branding girls with alliterative misogynistic epithets is kinda de rigueur, here; i am surprised it has not blown up before now. i almost feel like to tie the above to a particular incident undermines it, as if it's specifically insensitive rather than broadly, comprehensively insensitive. it is a very terrible way to treat & inaugurate the arrival of young people to a city/to adult life imo.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/09/titstare-tech-worlds-latest-brogrammer-joke-techcrunch-disrupt/69171/

goddammit.

not sure which individual it was referring to but I saw some twitter activity saying they also gave an award to a guy who had previously found out the SSN, name, and address of a woman who disagreed with him and posted them online

oh yeah, and techcrunch was founded by an alleged rapist and known dickhead. fuck everyone who thinks being associated with that shit is ok.

ah, this is the guy: http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindness-weev-and-the-cult-of-the-angry-young-man

Completely wretched human being who was busted for the wrong thing.

good lord that is terrifying

I know this is the minorest of points but:

Caroline Criado-Perez — a British journalist who led a successful campaign to get the image of author Jane Austen on one of the UK’s banknotes