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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 21 2015, @02:28AM
As a very wise person once said, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Now we can add "Mighty Buzzard with statistics." Do you knot thing that wen thy comparizoned wymen's wages for equyl work it wassnt this all convoluted by numbers and such? Apples and oranges? Pears and bananas? Why is Dogbert a dog, anyway?
(Score: 5, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 21 2015, @02:54AM
You're absolutely right. My statistics do not take into account experience or education or apples to apples jobs. Which has been a major beef from MRAs about the bullshit 77% statistic. And it's why I gave the feminists a bit of their own medicine back upside the chops just now.
Now there have been studies done that took all these things into account as well as hours worked and the like. Know what they found? There is no significant statistical difference [huffingtonpost.com] in pay rates when you actually account for everything possible.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 21 2015, @06:02AM
And it's why I gave the feminists a bit of their own medicine back upside the chops just now.
You would strike a woman? You, sir, are a cad and a bounder, who does not understand in the slightest what it means to be a man, let alone a proper gentle-man! Notice the prefix. I would suggest, that if you are so threatened by "feminists" as to feel a need to resort to blows, that you be my guest instead, and I will gladly knock you on your misogynist ass.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Saturday November 21 2015, @02:46PM
All this study shows is that for "male and female college graduates one year after graduation," the wage gap is "only 7%."
So 1: It does exist and 7% is statistically relevant.
And 2: To get even this close you have to cherry pick the hell out of the data set.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 21 2015, @03:15PM
Not really. Not when you consider women have far less self-confidence on average than men and that self-confidence is not just good but absolutely necessary in business. Honestly, I'd expect there to be a larger margin. That there isn't means women are getting paid more than they're worth.
You were bitching about the data not being apples to apples and now you're bitching when someone makes the attempt? Pick an argument, you don't get both.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Saturday November 21 2015, @03:28PM
You were bitching about the data not being apples to apples and now you're bitching when someone makes the attempt?
No, I challenged you to provide some evidence for your claim that the wage gap doesn't exist. The best you could do is reduce the gap to 7% (in entry level positions only).
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 21 2015, @04:08PM
Normally I'd take you up on your offer because I've seen a study done more than twenty years ago that narrows it to a statistically insignificant amount but it's nap time for me and, really, the burden of proof is not on me. As the accuser, you're the one who has to prove it does exist. Without resorting to bullshit numbers that take almost no factors of actual life into account, thank you. Really prove it exists.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.