Barbacoatl
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The great prophet Ebert fuels the war of the sexes. Whoever wins, oral sex for all.
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Women are better than men
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Zomba13
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In my experiences there are people who complicate things on both sides. There are women that are simple and easy to get on with and men who just seem to love making scenes and soaking in drama.
Anyway, I think every race and sex is as nice as every other race or sex. You have dicks of every colour and gender and you also have really cool and nice people of every colour and gender. Just because you are a woman doesn't mean you're nicer than a man and just because you're a man doesn't mean you're not as nice as a woman.
Also, why is America's Mothers Day not the same as the UKs? I always thought the day was the same everywhere, like Christmas. I suppose I should google it or something?
PdotMichael
Banned
My last engineering class (fuzzy logic in structural engineering):
100% men
Women are maybe better but even in the near future men will make all the boring but important stuff like bridges, cars or planes.
100% men
Women are maybe better but even in the near future men will make all the boring but important stuff like bridges, cars or planes.
Yup, that's why it's great that men hold the key positions in life and are more likely to help a fellow man.
They are tricking you dude, they aren't actually scared of spiders, they just want you to do the work. I know the game, that's why it's my Mom's responsibility to kill all the spiders in my house.
sebajuNujabes
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It's Gaborn News, and what's news without a catchy title to reel you in to read the story.
Spiffy_1st
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I like women more then men.
BertramCooper
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Nobody ever wins Monopoly.
You just keep going around and around until everyone gets bored and quits.
Such is life.
I don't think it is so much the sex of those in positions of power, but their psychological nature, that tends to invite "negative" behavior. To that end, I would think that the types of women who succeed and thrive as CEOs, politicians, etc., would have the same propensity to act in less-than-ideal ways.
The problems Ebert describes are probably more so caused, or enabled, by society as a whole rather than by gender-based reasons.
The problems Ebert describes are probably more so caused, or enabled, by society as a whole rather than by gender-based reasons.
Trent Strong
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I agree with most of what Ebert is saying here. People who deny that biology and evolution play a large role in differences between the sexes are fooling themselves.
Didn't you just contradict yourself? If we are thinking beings, then learned behavior and cultural stereotypes shouldn't be able to put us in cages.
Didn't you just contradict yourself? If we are thinking beings, then learned behavior and cultural stereotypes shouldn't be able to put us in cages.
Always-honest
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What nonsense...
Just because he realises he was an ignorant asshole his entire life untill his testosteron levels started to drop, he thinks he can speak for all of us.
Shut the fuck up ancient silly specimen of a human being.
Just because he realises he was an ignorant asshole his entire life untill his testosteron levels started to drop, he thinks he can speak for all of us.
Shut the fuck up ancient silly specimen of a human being.
shadowsdarknes
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This is specific to men, why?
hahahahahahahahahaha Flawless image, perfectly describes what I thought about the sports team comment.
adamsappel
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Here, I'll channel her for a moment. "You can't generalize women like that. God, men are such pigs!"
corporate cheerleader
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"Wait, but you just generalized men yoursel*gets shot*
Possibly, it was a bit dense sentence.
Or maybe we just have habit of screwing ourselves over. Thinking doesn't always lead to good results, and I was also taking a stab at people who say 'men and women are always x because of biology'. How to put it... uhm, men and women should both take pieces of the roles we've been set to. Really stereotypically saying some men might need empathy and some women might need to get less 'nice' (taking from something someone else in this thread said.)
dinazimmerman
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Taken out of context, this sentence is hilarious.
RawkHawk2010
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I wonder what life would be like if males were kept as slaves by females on a global scale.
Mmmm...doesn't sound so bad, actually. <3
Mmmm...doesn't sound so bad, actually. <3
DanteFox
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you forgot the part where "you're just one guy so you can't speak for all men, but I can totally speak for all women."
i am a spider slayer! i earned special finance pull at my old company because i happened to walk into the finance manager's office to ask them to push an invoice through, she started to get all bitchy, then a spider ran across her desk and she freaked the hell out. i killed it and she right then pushed my invoice through to cut the check and from that day on i had those special privileges.
you forgot to add three fucks in there!
H.Protagonist
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Can't you guys just focus on the article instead of banging on someone who can't even respond?
shadowsdarknes
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Ok guys, as much as Devolutions posts get on my nerves, it's not cool to shit on her when she can't post back.
Funny there's a thread on this, since I just got sent this (it sort of reflects the topic):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnWQKxsywL8
I'm going to stay out of this thread though, since it'll get messy.
Why can't we all just get along? :'(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnWQKxsywL8
I'm going to stay out of this thread though, since it'll get messy.
Why can't we all just get along? :'(
The article's stupid, but you're just providing evidence for one of the points he made: that men tend to care more about winning, everyone else be damned, while women are more likely to consider the positions of their opponents and find a compromise.
brianjones
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the one true god is between a woman's legs
They call me the Godeater.
Chiggs
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Yep, women can be extremely vicious.
dinazimmerman
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The women that end up in leadership positions don't really seem more compassionate and empathetic then their male counterparts.
So women subsidize losers? Doesn't seem very efficient! =P
So women subsidize losers? Doesn't seem very efficient! =P
He's also demonstrating that if that were true, and it's a total generalization they also end up losing to those willing to compete.
mugurumakensei
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The price of success is giving up some or all of your soul.
ReBurn
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This has been my experience. There are plenty of women in positions of power out there who will cut you down just as quickly as a man would. There are also men who would avoid confrontation at all costs.
Ebert took a misandry pill it seems.
Even if it's hard to say how much truth there is in that common stereotype, it's not evidence for the more important part - why are things that way? Biology may have had people start like in the days of Living in the Cave, but did it go on also because every generation just teaches the next one (not even thinking about it) that men and women need to be that way, part because men have been the dominant side. Some of the smaller, more isolated cultures have some very different ways for people to act.
Trent Strong
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Of course they're generalizations. I don't think Ebert believes that 100% of men and women have the characteristics he's talking about. Of course he knows there are exceptions. Everybody knows there are exceptions, so much so that there's no point in even bringing it up. (And of course Ebert is not some kind of authority or expert in these matters.) But that doesn't mean that you can never say that "men tend to do x" or "women tend to do y". There is nothing wrong with talking about what men or women do on average, or in general, or usually.
Well I really can't argue against Arab drifting can I? But I can at least argue that I'm not and shouldn't have to pay more because someone else is?
astroturfing
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heh, no less than 20 minutes ago i thought about how taboo it is to say out loud that men kinda suck. there's always a shitstorm reaction when something factual like "men are more violent" is said. it's just true, that's how evolution shaped us. us males had to fight over females more than females had to fight over males, so we became more aggressive in comparison and more ready to use violence to enhance our changes of passing on our genes.
i'm 100% supportive of actively trying to reduce male power in the world, and increase female power. doesn't hurt to try, after this many millenia of male dominance.. right?
the moment of clarity when i realized us men are definitely worse: i worked at the local police station and had access to all of the case files, so i decided to take a random 100 or so violent cases and check how many offenders were male and how many female. each and every random sample had a male offender... so, yeah...
i'm 100% supportive of actively trying to reduce male power in the world, and increase female power. doesn't hurt to try, after this many millenia of male dominance.. right?
the moment of clarity when i realized us men are definitely worse: i worked at the local police station and had access to all of the case files, so i decided to take a random 100 or so violent cases and check how many offenders were male and how many female. each and every random sample had a male offender... so, yeah...
Baconsammy
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it was a joke. It's pretty well documented that men are more likely to die younger, we're more likely to drink and drive and engage in other risky activity as well. That's why men on average pay a bit more than women drivers.
TheKaeptain
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uh, excuse me. I am not afraid of spiders. Only clowns.
Baconsammy
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Admiral Bone to Pick
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Spanx? That's the example you used? Really? I had to look that up. It certainly hasn't created any billionaires. He may have expressed it poorly but he has a legitimate point. Young women aren't as ambitious as their male counterparts.
Gaborn, it's straight-up irresponsible to make this thread while Devo is banned.
For this amongst other reasons.
Baconsammy
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Young women aren't as successful as their male counterparts. How can you say unequivocally that they're not as ambitious? His point was steeped in misogynistic bullshit.
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