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posted by CoolHand on Friday November 20 2015, @11:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the this-ain't-dilbert dept.
We've previously covered Scott Adam's writings on gender discrimination. Now we see an expansion of his thoughts on the gender war and how it relates to terrorism:

I came across this piece on Scott Adam's blog and found it quite interesting. Thought others here might find it interesting too:

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/133406477506/global-gender-war#_=_

So if you are wondering how men become cold-blooded killers, it isn't religion that is doing it. If you put me in that situation, I can say with confidence I would sign up for suicide bomb duty. And I'm not even a believer. Men like hugging better than they like killing. But if you take away my access to hugging, I will probably start killing, just to feel something. I'm designed that way. I'm a normal boy. And I make no apology for it.

Now consider the controversy over the Syrian immigrants. The photos show mostly men of fighting age. No one cares about adult men, so a 1% chance of a hidden terrorist in the group – who might someday kill women and children – is unacceptable. I have twice blogged on the idea of siphoning out the women and small kids from the Caliphate and leaving millions of innocent adult men to suffer and die. I don't recall anyone complaining about leaving millions of innocent adult males to horrible suffering. In this country, any solution to a problem that involves killing millions of adult men is automatically on the table.

If you kill infidels, you will be rewarded with virgins in heaven. But if you kill your own leaders today – the ones holding the leash on your balls – you can have access to women tomorrow. And tomorrow is sooner.


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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 21 2015, @05:04AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday November 21 2015, @05:04AM (#266089) Homepage Journal

    Yup, making a personal choice to place family ahead of career is not something that needs society to adjust for though. You makes your choices, you takes the consequences, you don't bitch.

    The confidence deficit also plays a significant part no doubt. Women are significantly less likely to ask for a raise/promotion or to put their ideas forward unsolicited. It's a very, very complex matter and anyone trying to give you an exact number should be disbelieved before they even finish speaking and mocked until they pony up with solid, well-researched proof.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Saturday November 21 2015, @03:04PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Saturday November 21 2015, @03:04PM (#266198) Journal

    ...making a personal choice to place family ahead of career...
     
    Not much of choice when men don't get paternity leave...

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 21 2015, @03:18PM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday November 21 2015, @03:18PM (#266202) Homepage Journal

      S'a fair point. How bout some equality for the guys, yo?

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      • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Saturday November 21 2015, @03:59PM

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Saturday November 21 2015, @03:59PM (#266210) Journal

        S'a fair point. How bout some equality for the guys, yo?
         
          You agree with the Feminists on this one. [huffingtonpost.com]

        • (Score: 1) by jrial on Saturday November 21 2015, @04:54PM

          by jrial (5162) on Saturday November 21 2015, @04:54PM (#266235)

          Yes, that sometimes happens in discussions. Just because one disagrees with most of the propaganda doesn't mean they have to disagree with the sensible, rational arguments too.

          I happen to disagree with most of the current feminist narrative. I don't think it's a problem if both genders aren't treated exactly the same in all possible situations. For me it's perfectly acceptable that group A gets some perks and some disadvantages compared to group B and the same holding true in the other direction. As long as on average, the perks and drawbacks cancel each other out. If a woman thinks I should be equally involved in the household (cooking, cleaning, groceries, ...), then I think it's not unreasonably for me to expect her to pull her weight too when it comes to maintaining the car, fixing the plumbing and electricity and what have you. But that would be a suboptimal solution; on average, women tend to be better at some tasks such as cooking, cleaning, or perhaps less patronising: interior decoration. And on average, men are better with plumbing, car mechanics (although that's quickly becoming a lost art) and other "manly" things. The solution is not demanding that each gender wastes their time on tasks they generally tend to be worse at to even out the load across all tasks. The solution is for each individual to focus on the tasks they're better suited for. If that means in my household I end up being the cook (I am quite good at it and enjoy doing it) and my wife the one changing the distribution belt, so be it. But since I am absolutely shit at cleaning, unless she's equally crap at it than I am, yes, I would appreciate it if she did in 1 hour what would take me 3 rather than giving me crap about me reinforcing gender roles.

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        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 21 2015, @06:30PM

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday November 21 2015, @06:30PM (#266265) Homepage Journal

          I agree with egalitarians. Feminists, that depends on if you're talking ones like Christina Hoff Sommers or the blue-haired, shrieking millennials who wouldn't piss on a man if he were on fire.

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