• Taleya@aussie.zone
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    That’s because you’re measuring physical violence, not psychological. We skate under the radar once again.

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    I am just a 5’ honey badger waiting for my moment. Closest call was that time Jehovah witnesses peered into my car while I was alone at night outside of a store. Turns out they are easily frightened when you hold your car horn down long enough though.

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      You only have one countrr argument, dammit and you’re going to use it!

      It’s specious and fallacious but it’s all you’ve got!

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      Quoting crime statistics based on race, like the old “13/50” trope, is often used to enforce racist notions that minority groups are inherently bad people. It’s punching down at marginalized people.

      This meme, at least as I see it, is the opposite. It’s satirizing the usual crap from the anti-feminist crowd claiming that women are inherently inferior. It’s punching up at sexist men.

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        So…statistics are only valid when they promote your ideals?

        Or is it that, in your mind, the stats that don’t run parallel with your ideals have obviously been misinterpreted or fudged?

        Just trying to figure out your stance on statistical data.

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          Statistics are just numbers. What matters is how they are used. Anyone who has studied stats knows that it’s common to craft misleading conclusions from real data.

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            So what is the “right” way to use them?

            So long as they are helping the “downtrodden”* it’s ok to see the numbers differently?

            I have studied statistics. In my studies I learned that numbers do not lie, people lie. And, as was stated before, people can manipulate numbers to match their narrative.

            I’ve seen studies published as “fact” just because the author manipulated the numbers to match their findings.

            This is what we should base our outlook on?

            *in this instance, “downtrodden” refers to the person or group deemed savable by those who are looking to be a savior.

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          Stats are valid when they are used in the proper context and are not being misrepresented. For example, Black and Native American people account for a disproportionate number of drowning deaths in the US. But it would be irresponsible to simply conclude that those groups are inherently bad swimmers. Just like the way the 13/50 trope is irresponsibly used to imply non-whites are inherently more prone to criminal behavior.

          All that aside, this meme isn’t attacking men. It’s attacking sexist tropes used against women.

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            All that aside, this meme isn’t attacking men. It’s attacking sexist tropes used against women.

            Nah, it’s a sexist joke. But it’s funny because “Haha, men bad”.

            It’s equivalent to making a joke like this: “Men do care about their feelings. Feeling their dick being sucked”

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    what’s unnerving is that there lots of POW reports that indicate that women showcase far more cruelty towards female POWs compared to men.

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    >makes ragebait post for men

    >laughs at men getting ragebaited

    >pretends like ragebaiting people is progressive in any way

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      Is this ragebait? I’m a man and I thought it was funny. This is the kind of thing I would say to the feminists I know.

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    In terms of frequency, women are significantly worse than men; men more damage per physical act of violence.

    In terms of emotional and psychological violence, women are so far ahead of the race they disappeared over the horizon.

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    Don’t worry, we men are already evening out the odds by getting our panties twisted in a bunch over a clever meme.

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        If it helps at all, it’s not entirely true, statistically, just very slightly funny when not explained. Men are like 75% of the victims in homicides and lead in other violent crimes, if my Googling is correct. Women do lead in other categories, though, so it’s still competitive. I’m not trying to take anything away from anybody. But I also admit “borders on bad taste” is pretty much the line I walk.

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        I have to imagine that it was also a joke. I see it as a continuation of the original joke

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    People refusing to commit crimes deserve a raise.

    Those who commit crimes should be living together aways from those who do not.

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      How so? They can both do 80%. This will increase the total number of crimes to 160% but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to pay to protect equality, the second amendment and the free world.

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        That’s not how maths works.

        [Excuse me while I “mansplain”] But if women want to increase their violent crimes to match men’s, they need to increase by an additional 300%. This would result in a total increase of violent crimes of 60% more violent crime.

        C’mon girls! Try harder!

        Do your part to achieve equality!

        Then maybe men can cease being expected to open doors, put toilet seats down, put women and children first, die in wars, buy dinner and flowers, carry all the heavy things, fend off attackers, fix everything, [(quietly)] die younger, thrive without emotional support, be sole provider as a trad-hubby gentleman sigma-male feminist-ally bad-boy softie stoic emoting funny but only in a specific way and tall but not too tall and looking good with a six-pack without spending time working on it and whatever else in the cluster of impossible contradictions, alone.