These people are fully capable of making alternate accounts and "harassing" themselves, and have been caught doing so. I appreciate what you're saying, but trying to take the high road so the left will at some point be forced to admit that we aren't what they say we are won't work.
I went to the website, and it's still not clear to me whether it's satire or not. If it is, it's extremely elaborate: they even have a "how to contribute" page: https://iqfy.com/contribute/ I think it might just be ultra-leftwing, sometimes deliberately provocative clickbait.
Definitely. A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep/Bladeunner are also about unreliable identity or memories. Paycheck is kind of like that too. Presumably others I haven't read as well. He was a man obsessed, but that obsession made for some really interesting books and stories.
I don't think they hate trannies because they're at the top of the stack, even if we assume they are.
There is no significant number of anti-black feminists. There is no significant number of anti-gay feminists. There aren't even a significant amount of anti-islam feminists, somehow, though there are some that are specifically against burkas. This is all because feminists tend to be good leftists, and agree with left-wing causes. So why are there all these TERFS? Because RFs, or Fs in general, hate men. They hate trannies- specifically MtF trannies- because a man who claims to be a woman gets all the benefits they want only for women, and gets to enter spaces that they want to keep men out of. Their problem with trannies isn't about where they are in the stack, it's that it allows a small number of men to escape the pit they've spent the last fifty years pushing men into and enjoy benefits that they think only women should be allowed to have. When the core of your ideology is that men are disgusting violent oppressive scum and women are virtuous and wonderful, then suddenly one of the disgusting scum puts on a dress and says "I'm just as valuable as you now, can I have my woman-only scholarship?", you react with disgust and hatred. That is what is at the core of being a TERF.
She DID hold it between her legs, asshole, and it DID have a lid on it until she removed it, and it did NOT fall when they handed it to her.
They'll stop saying they're oppressed once society stops giving them power over their "oppressors" because they claim they're oppressed. The left has very successfully weaponized victimhood, so until that stops being true, don't expect any victimized group to ever admit they aren't victims, because that equates to giving up their power. At this point "being oppressed" is a fundamental part of their identity.
Or, to put it another way: Women make up about 2 out of every 3 college graduates, and more every year, yet nearly all gender-specific scholarships are for women. There's no point at which they'll say it's enough. It's not about equality for women, and it's not about equality for gays either, it's about power and fucking over straight white men, and it will never ever stop.
But they're driven. It's Antifa that's out there basically getting into street battles with the police. They're the ones who are willing to get dirty.
What we largely saw during the "summer of love" was that the police were often ordered to ignore them up until they started trying to burn down a federal courthouse, the media applauded them or outright suggested more targets for destruction, and on the off chance they actually managed to get arrested, they would get their bail paid by some leftist organization and it's not unlikely the DA would decline to prosecute. If the right enjoyed that level of support, maybe they'd be on the streets, too. But I agree that the essentially mainstream belief on the left that "Everyone who doesn't agree with you is a nazi and violence against nazis is justified" is also a factor in mobilizing them.
The gap between the rights and responsibilities of women versus men with respect to children is absolutely insane. Basically all birth control short of condoms only works for women, effectively giving women complete reproductive control over both themselves and men in long term relationships, abortions only exist for women, child support might as well only exist for men, and being unable to pay it lands you in prison unless you absolutely win the lottery and get a family court judge who is even willing to consider the possibility that men don't have limitless money and job opportunities. Women are acting like limits to abortions mean they're being treated like cattle, but the fact is they still have tremendously more rights and less responsibility than men ever have or ever will.
Eh, he's a feminist white-knight TERF. He literally thinks there's a war on women, and every issue he has with trans anything is specifically about how it could hurt women, it doesn't have anything to do with being rational about gender. If it were an issue where men were hurt, he wouldn't give a shit.
I think the way it works is if you have the discipline, ability and foresight to do that sort of training, you're already capable enough to not be in a gang. Gang members are mentally subnormal. Otherwise we'd call them "organized crime", like the mafia, and I wouldn't be surprised if organized crime groups did have ranges of some sort.
The last few months has been like watching the years after the cold war in reverse. Everything that people were happy about- the first coca cola in the USSR, the first McDonald's, trade delegations of all sorts, American cities becoming sister cities with Russian ones, I even specifically remember having some Russian kids visit my elementary school a few years before the wall fell just as a sort of cultural exchange, all in an effort to ratchet down tensions, because people didn't want to risk a nuclear war over politics. And now everyone's applauding and outright demanding the exact opposite of it all. It's just so stupid.
Trans "rights" are actually only about taking away other people's rights. The right to use language correctly, the right to acknowledge that biology exists and applies to humans, the right for children to grow up into fully intact and mentally healthy adults, the right of parents to know what their children are being told in school, the right to not be forced to participate in someone else's sexual fetish, and the right of athletes to be classified with people who are physically similar instead of dissimilar. All the rights they should have they already have, and then some. Everything for the past ten years has actually been about controlling other people, not stopping people from controlling them. So when you say "Trans rights are human rights", no they fucking aren't, they're about taking away human rights.
Speaking of which, I bet online piracy skews heavily towards white men, because white men are the people who have the technical ability to do it (not that I'm saying it takes much, especially these days, but still). I further bet that if it were the other way around, we'd be reading articles on a regular basis about how anti-piracy legislation is racist and those poor blacks are only pirating because they can't afford it, and the REAL crime is the institutional racism that forces these poor black people to resort to such measures.
I own thousands of dollars in custom made hood ornaments. I've spent over a year perfecting my hood ornament placement and it's still not enough. If any car manufacturer put in as much effort as I do, car shoppers would be buying those cars, by simple virtue of being a car and putting in that much effort. But because I'm not a car and can't do 70 on the highway carrying 4, nobody buys me at car lots. I hate it so much, and it makes me want to die. Most of the hood ornaments I own are so nice they stack an extra point simply for owning them, yet I'll never be able to carry someone to his workplace on a gallon of gas.
It's all almost entirely irrelevant. Average men don't support women politically over their own best interests because of some calculated position on how that will increase their likelihood to reproduce, they support women because it's instinctual and because feminist-controlled society tells them to. An instinct that was bred into males to protect and care for females over other males or even themselves for thousands of generations. If we had artificial wombs and a few million years to wait, yeah, maybe that would be enough time for that instinctual trait to go away, but until then, the average man's desire to protect women, and belief that women are wonderful, isn't something he reasoned into, and it won't be something he's reasoned out of either, artificial wombs or not.
I happen to be watching it now, so I can cover this through episode 6 of 8 off the top of my head. It definitely has woke moments. The black detective getting beat up by the racist white police who then basically admit "We did it because he was black, not because we thought he was breaking in" to make sure the audience knows how racist they are. The black female PI who goes to a strip club and beats up a white male patron for touching a stripper (I haven't conducted an extensive strip club survey, but surely they all have bouncers that are on top this?). The detective and the barber talking about how much they're hated there because they're black. But it's mostly that if you do a count of how many of the "bad guys" are white vs. black, compared to how many "good guys" are white vs. black, or do the same thing for male vs. female, you'll find a remarkably unbalanced count. The standouts for believability are definitely the harvard-schooled black detective living in a small southern town and the black female private investigator who also fought with Reacher in the army.
On the protagonist's side:
Reacher: White male.
Main detective guy: Black male.
Main police woman: White female.
FBI guy who protects family of banker guy: Black male.
Barber who assists investigation and had the chest from the dead mentor, basically the only friendly townperson: Black male
PI who helps extensively: Black female.
Brother's partner in the secret service who gets killed: White female
Professor who helps: White female
On the antagonist's side:
Kleiner, the main bad guy for most of the series: White male.
That guy's asshole son who basically exists to fulfill the 'bully' caricature: White male
That guy's stupid friend he drives around with for backup: White man
Thugs in prison who were going to rape banker guy: Black men
Thugs in prison who were going to kill banker guy: White men
Dirty cops at police station: All white men
The mayor, who's dirty and killed white cop girl's mentor: White male
Police chief who gets killed early on, who iirc is dirty: white male
Dirty prison guard who sets up Reacher to be killed: White male
Various Venezuelan hitmen: All hispanic men. So these guys aren't white. You could argue that they have to be hispanic to remind the audience they're from South America, though, so it would take a rewrite of the plot to replace Venezuela with Russia or something to make them white.
Dirty cop who kills his black partner in the cop car for cooperating with Reacher: White male
The white banker guy and his family are white, and he was working for the antagonists, but they spend some time on showing how he was manipulated, so I'll leave him out of either category.
So yeah, definitely somewhat woke. Really it's the MC Reacher who most people saying it isn't woke are probably hanging their hat on, and yeah, he's definitely white and male, and smart and extremely capable, and he does receive the most screen time of any character. But the rest of the cast is pretty standard "White male = bad guy, not white male = good persxn".
But as for whether it's good or not with the wokeness left aside: It's okay. I can't comment too much or give it a final recommendation since I have two episodes left. Aside from the whole plot being resolved, I'm still waiting to see if some of the issues I have in terms of characters acting irrationally are explained by the end. Reacher is sometimes a little ridiculous, like how he can identify where in the world a guy is from based on how he head butts, or that the way a guy had his throat cut was specifically a south american thing. His behaviour is also sometimes the stupid kind of violent: like how he goes into the restaurant to punch the guy's son, when he explicitly knows that that's exactly what the other guy wants. I guess it's supposed to be partially related to the secret service woman who was killed and the emotional state that put him in, but that doesn't work too well with how extremely rationally and unemotional he behaves otherwise, almost to the point of being autistic. There's also the way that people tend to come at him with exactly the level of force he can handle at the time to make the fight scenes interesting... except for the one time he should totally get shot, and is saved by police woman, in the interest of showing how she doesn't need him to help her. But in general the fight scenes seem good and the protagonists don't get outrageously lucky too often.
Well, whatever. It's woke, but definitely not as woke as, for instance, Star Wars or something, and I'm not going to put too much effort into assessing it's overall quality given that I'm not all the way through.
The fact that they aren't controlling for differences in the relative size of age groups over time makes the whole thing meaningless. The only thing to learn from those headlines, and the graph in particular, is that whoever is responsible for them is either retarded or is deliberately presenting data in a misleading way to serve their agenda.
It's just you announcing you are one of the people I mentioned at the beginning of my post who has already decided to hate anything new all the while knowing Jack and shit about it. You're just looking for a hook to bitch about.
LOL, this entire thread is just YOU announcing that you've already decided anyone who doesn't like your tv show must be blah blah blah. You're a hypocrite and a moron.
I see this thread went pretty much the way I expected. It filled with retards who don't actually want a good show. They want woke trash so they can sit around jerking each other off over how they are redpilled and see how woke everything is. Literally the flipside of the people they constantly cry about.
Reminds me why I stopped posting and probably will again.
I'm sure your wisdom will be missed.
Right, because of all those abortions men are allowed to have, right? Oh, wait, men have never had any legal ability to avoid having a child post-conception, and the child support laws are extremely draconian and regularly throw men in prison for the crime of being laid off or not earning as much money as some family court judge thinks he could. Making abortion illegal everywhere in the country would just reduce women's rights to the level of men's rights.
Also, "Right to control your body", I 100% guarantee this retard spent the last two years demanding forced medical procedures.
I don't know if it's the same study, but the one I saw was pretty similar, and then on top of it admits at the end that the trans people were taking hormones, too. Way to admit your entire study is basically trash because it fails to account for a hugely important factor in your last paragraph, assholes. And yet even with that fundamentally compromising bias in favor of brain difference, their brains were STILL more like their actual gender than their claimed gender.
And the real kicker was that it was cited by a tranny in an argument trying to prove they are real. So god only knows how damaging the studies are that aren't cherry picked by trannies themselves. Or the studies that don't get done at all, or don't get published, because there's a huge bias towards pro-lefties going into the social sciences to begin with, and even the ones that might be tempted to be honest have got to be aware of the fact that trying to execute or publish an anti-trans study might end their career.
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