Top 10 feminist fiascoes

[Jimmy Higgins]

What amazes me is that so many people cannot see A) how inappropriate wearing that shirt to work is, or B) that the fact that it was being worn by a male geek in a STEM job (with nobody else there even noticing how inappropriate it was) perfectly illustrates what women have been saying for years: STEM workplaces are all too often indistinguishable from a middle-school boys' locker room.

Nonsense. The opposite is much more likely - that you have a "progressive" setting where a woman can get a man fired because she is offended by a mild joke she overhears him saying. Remember Donglegate?

Donglegate? You refer to these things like they were 9/11 or the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

 

[Jokodo]

Nonsense. The opposite is much more likely - that you have a "progressive" setting where a woman can get a man fired because she is offended by a mild joke she overhears him saying. Remember Donglegate?

Donglegate? You refer to these things like they were 9/11 or the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

In the manosphere, they probably are treated with the same reverence.

 

[Davka]

Donglegate? You refer to these things like they were 9/11 or the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

In the manosphere, they probably are treated with the same reverence.

That's "boyosphere." Men are adults.

 

[Davka]

What amazes me is that so many people cannot see A) how inappropriate wearing that shirt to work is, or B) that the fact that it was being worn by a male geek in a STEM job (with nobody else there even noticing how inappropriate it was) perfectly illustrates what women have been saying for years: STEM workplaces are all too often indistinguishable from a middle-school boys' locker room.

Nonsense. The opposite is much more likely - that you have a "progressive" setting where a woman can get a man fired because she is offended by a mild joke she overhears him saying. Remember Donglegate?

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We were talking about the sciences, remember? And how women feel shut out by the boys' club in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) workplaces. Not how knuckle-dragging misogynists feel put upon by their "feminist" co-workers at Burger King because the women dare to complain when said knuckle-draggers grab their ass.

 

[Jokodo]

In the manosphere, they probably are treated with the same reverence.

That's "boyosphere." Men are adults.

"manosphere" is not to be understood as the sphere of men. Rather, it's the sphere of people for whom "man" is the most defining characteristic. That's of course mostly boys.

 

[Jokodo]

Nonsense. The opposite is much more likely - that you have a "progressive" setting where a woman can get a man fired because she is offended by a mild joke she overhears him saying. Remember Donglegate?

Sorry, Derec, but your posting history indicates an intellect which is - how shall I put this - extremely unlikely to have landed you a job in a STEM workplace in any capacity more crucial than that of a janitor.

How dare you insult janitors? The position of a janitor is indeed a very crucial one. There's a reason why they let me, as academic staff, get away with announcing my leave days on short notice while janitors post theirs publicly a month in advance: The place would break down without them, but not so much without me.

 

[Davka]

That's "boyosphere." Men are adults.

"manosphere" is not to be understood as the sphere of men. Rather, it's the sphere of people for whom "man" is the most defining characteristic. That's of course mostly boys.

my bad - i thought that was the penisphere.

 

[Derec]

Sorry, Derec, but your posting history indicates an intellect which is - how shall I put this - extremely unlikely to have landed you a job in a STEM workplace in any capacity more crucial than that of a janitor.

Just because I do not believe that women deserve special rights (like the ability to get any man fired who offends their fragile sensibilities with PG-13 jokes she overhears) doesn't mean that I lack intellectual abilities.
That you feel the need to resort to such low and mean-spirited personal attacks speaks volumes about yours though.

 

[ksen]

swwet "no u" there

 

[Derec]

Donglegate? You refer to these things like they were 9/11 or the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

It's the name commonly given to the incident. Many things get -gate appended to it without being on the order of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor (or even the original Watergate).
The incident does show that many employers have over-corrected in their zeal to make workplaces inviting to females.

 

[laughing dog]

Donglegate? You refer to these things like they were 9/11 or the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

It's the name commonly given to the incident. Many things get -gate appended to it without being on the order of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor (or even the original Watergate).
The incident does show that many employers have over-corrected in their zeal to make workplaces inviting to females.

How does that incident show that MANY employers have over-corrected?

 

[Derec]

How does that incident show that MANY employers have over-corrected?

It's an example.

 

[laughing dog]

How does that incident show that MANY employers have over-corrected?

It's an example.

It is example of rhetorical excess because an example of one cannot possibly show that MANY has done anything. Unless you redefine many to be one.

 

[Davka]

It's an example.

It is example of rhetorical excess because an example of one cannot possibly show that MANY has done anything. Unless you redefine many to be one.

In the penisphere, any single example of a woman using the system to harm a man is proof that misogyny is a thing of the distant past, long since replaced by misandry and wholesale random castration.

 

[Derec]

In the penisphere, any single example of a woman using the system to harm a man is proof that misogyny is a thing of the distant past, long since replaced by misandry and wholesale random castration.

As opposed to vaginasphere where a single non-PC shirt can cause much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

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It's an example.

It is example of rhetorical excess because an example of one cannot possibly show that MANY has done anything. Unless you redefine many to be one.

No, it's an example that I used as a counterpoint to the feminist overreaction to the NASA employee's shirt.

 

[Toni]

As opposed to vaginasphere where a single non-PC shirt can cause much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

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It's an example.

It is example of rhetorical excess because an example of one cannot possibly show that MANY has done anything. Unless you redefine many to be one.

No, it's an example that I used as a counterpoint to the feminist overreaction to the NASA employee's shirt.

You know, Derec, I would be almost always almost completely unaware of such incidents if you didn't make a point of spreading them around the ether so well. Someone else might let ridiculous assertions die the death in obscurity they deserve. FWIW, I don't know a single woman who gives a flying fuck what kind of tshirt an astronaut wears.

In fact, you'd do better by your cause (proving that women are all out to castrate and subjugate men and steal their money) if you didn't trot out such trivial and ridiculous heroes defending manhood by ridiculing women.

 

[Jokodo]

As opposed to vaginasphere where a single non-PC shirt can cause much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

The "wailing and gnashing of teeth" was almost entirely on the side of the "how dare they tell him it's inappropriate" camp. You're engaging in it right now.

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It's an example.

It is example of rhetorical excess because an example of one cannot possibly show that MANY has done anything. Unless you redefine many to be one.

No, it's an example that I used as a counterpoint to the feminist overreaction to the NASA employee's shirt.

NASA? Sweet. You do know that there's a world outside of the US of A, don't you?

 

[Playball40]

What I found interesting was that when my husband and I watched, HE noticed the shirt and commented on it (being inappropriate). He is an engineer.

So, no it's not all the fem-nazis noticing these things (or making them up). It's fathers, brothers and uncles wanting more their daughters, sisters and nieces.

 

[Jokodo]

What I found interesting was that when my husband and I watched, HE noticed the shirt and commented on it (being inappropriate). He is an engineer.

So, no it's not all the fem-nazis noticing these things (or making them up). It's fathers, brothers and uncles wanting more their daughters, sisters and nieces.

Your husband is obviously a fifth column man. It shows already from the fact that he let you watch it rather than have you do the dishes.

 

[Derec]

So, no it's not all the fem-nazis noticing these things (or making them up). It's fathers, brothers and uncles wanting more their daughters, sisters and nieces.

I think women should have equal rights and opportunities to men. However, I do not see how banning certain clothing or joking among employees would accomplish that. I.e. I do not see why women should be seen as "measure of all things" when it comes to what is appropriate in the workplace.

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The "wailing and gnashing of teeth" was almost entirely on the side of the "how dare they tell him it's inappropriate" camp. You're engaging in it right now.

Obviously not.

NASA? Sweet. You do know that there's a world outside of the US of A, don't you?

My bad. It was a mistake. Got any other nits to pick?