Rolling 'this is sexist' thread

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?pagewanted=all

jfc, '08

well i don't know harassment law v. well, but i don't think its very strong (especially w/r/t online communication) and tends to be a misdemeanor in most cases and i don't really feel it should be beefed up.

he is also said to have trashed his enemies’ credit ratings.

uh yeah, this shit in the article combined with the fact he's spending money on stuff with no obvious source of income...

In some states I would bet you could get an aiding-and-abetting conviction for someone who posts a SS# and address with the intention of leading to harassment and where it actually does lead to a crime.

well i don't know harassment law v. well, but i don't think its very strong (especially w/r/t online communication) and tends to be a misdemeanor in most cases and i don't really feel it should be beefed up.

a bullshit opinion imo

well if someone does it w/r/t someone in the public eye that i already have it in for (e.g. zimmerman) then i'm gonna be on their side, i think. so then if someone does it to someone i don't have it in for in a terrible way i'm not sure how a legal distinction is possible

this is crazy? it is always wrong. even if one feels a savage satisfaction when someone commits a crime against a person one hates it's still a crime.

yeah, it's not like vigilante justice becomes ok just because it's online. Do you think it's alright to throw rocks at Zimmerman if you see him in public?

no, because I don't want to get shot

I knew a guy who was "ironically" racist/misogynist in high school, I think partially as a reaction to his school environment and his blue collar dad really being different in default stances so he went over the top, and it was my first view into the fact that you are the person you act as in daily life, not the person you internally think you are. If people see you being a sexist asshole who treats women like shit, then...

rip noise board

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/09/23/130923fa_fact_widdicombe?currentPage=all

I feel that there might be some good writers that come out of this bustle site, but if so, they're going to be the survivors of a sinking ship. I can't help but giggle at the complete cluelessness of this guy when he treats "women" as a demographic in the way that "sports fans" are a demographic. The parts where he conflates sports fans with men are pretty amazing, too.

He told me that he wished he’d spent time building relationships with what he called “the feminist community.” “It got me thinking,” he said. “Honestly, nothing would have been more helpful here than for some highly regarded feminist writers to say, ‘Bryan’s a good person.’ ”

bear in mind that most women, like most men, have shitty taste and are interested in reading dumb articles if at all.

That's the thing, I think the site idea isn't horrible in a not-profitable way! I just don't think that world news or celebrity gossip are written in a way that excludes women

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr05/10/7/enhanced-buzz-wide-4481-1381404561-7.jpg

happy to see the sexy cat/magician's assistant avoided censure

I don't understand. What's the goal of that img?

idk. hopefully it is satirizing people who would use hateful language to describe women wearing skimpy halloween costumes.

I think the goal of that image is to make the viewer's eyes burst into flames due to severe, uncontrollable rolling

Apparently 'slut' means 'the end' in Swedish and all the costumes thus marked are out of stock.

xp I had to take a break from eye rolling due to extreme muscle fatigue, no wonder I couldn't tell.

guys if I go in costume as a woman for halloween which of these should I pick

They're all mediocre

So what about that spanish arse drummer video then

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/bosses-in-nyc-can-sexually-harass-unpaid-interns.html

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/10/10-sexual-harassment.o.jpg/a_190x190.jpg

can't even hover-hand a butt these days without a nymag article

i can't even...

http://tbteedition.tampabay.com/ee/tampabaytimes/publink.php?shareid=0eed79ccd#.UmAikSaLuN0.facebook

is that for real?

That's been all over the blogs I read for the last day or so. Scott Lemieux at LGM does a nice job of helping blow it up: http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2013/10/the-sexual-assault-of-women-isnt-a-problem-of-women-drinking

i agree with that person good lord, blogs can be so tiresome
i hate having someone explain to me what to be outraged about
thinkpiece hell

why don't men drink less if they're not able to stop raping when they're drunk?

sorry, that's not even necessary

that blog calls out the Slate piece. The piece I posted was in Tampa Bay Times. ie, two people wrote HEY WOMEN DRINK LESS articles. both female. one a mother.

despite having good intentions, good job at narrowing the scope of the rape discussion even more. the public's kneejerk reaction to rape reports is already "what was her BAL?", good job on just reinforcing that belief by focusing on one trigger that rapists look for (among many), whilst also placing the onus of solving the problem on the victim.

also lol at the TBT article title - yes, ending drinking = ending rape, great correllary.

http://elitedaily.com/news/world/big-butt-healthy-butt-study-says-women-big-butts-healthier/

cool study, guys

"this study did not include fake butts"

the worst

"intellectually superior" whoah stop right there, those words don't even mean anything.

Eugenics marches ever onwards. Used to be brain size, now it's butt size. Plus ca change...

this well-meaning guy I know proudly posted that on FB, someone pointed out how not-actually-feminist that article was and he actually said 'but it's science'.
I went to bed proud that I hadn't waded in but ffs

billboard for a new condo development in minneapolis

https://twitter.com/dbrauer/status/398153922155532288

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYaE4a-CYAAvwjm.jpg

o_O

same company has the same ads in NYC but they read "I don't remember his name..."

how can you tell it's the same co?

same logo/color scheme and i think the same logo? just saw it today on a bus

er, i mean same verbiage

http://www.break.com/article/there-s-something-odd-about-the-staff-at-cellular-solutions-2538644

Don't read the comments.

^^^^^^

I wonder if those senior managers were, as it were, 'on to a good thing'

Ten managers in my office/dept all women, i'll wait on that website to call, huh.

My former boss, who was an excellent mentor and advocate for women in corporate management, had pretty much all women project managers working for him; he said (never publically, afaict) that he felt fortunate to have staff who were smarter than him. With this particular guy, it felt genuine. But could come off as totally sexist, I suppose.

I should have said program managers: six figure positions with lots of staff/responsibilities/pressure/etc. Good guy; would work for again if he decided to ditch corporate life and go a non-profit social services route.