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Comment Re:Again? (Score 4, Informative) 613

Vet schools on average admit 4 males for ever female student admitted. But when the personal details on applications are obscured, so that the selection committees do not know the gender of applicants - it switches to 60/40 female selection !

Since vet schools are 80% female, I assume you managed to accidentally reverse the genders here.

Comment Re: Your attitude is sexist (Score 4, Insightful) 613

The term "brogrammer" is kind of a shibboleth; if someone seriously talks about "brogramming" or the "brogramming culture", they're completely disconnected from reality. The whole "brogramming" thing was a hoax, an obvious joke based on the juxtaposition of the opposites of "nerds" and "bros". The press and blogs picked up on it as if it were real (it's still not clear which were in on the joke).

There's no "brogramming culture" where coders with popped collars drink Natty Bo and lift weights in one hand while pounding code in the other. There may be a few fake "brogrammers" out there in a life-imitates-art sort of way, and a few legitimate "bros" who are actually programmers, but "brogramming" was never a thing.

Comment Re:I read the article (Score 4, Insightful) 613

You want to know how to really contribute to the problem? Tell women that their co-workers, who will be largely male, are a horrible bunch of sexists who will mistreat them based on their gender. If they don't quit right there, teach them that any action those men take is a "microaggression" directed at them as a result of their gender. Teach them that the appropriate response to these "microaggressions" is to be extremely upset and angry, possibly to file a complaint with management or HR. Tell them (and convince HR) that a man defending himself from such a complaint is itself sexism and oppression. This will ensure the women always believe they are being oppressed, that they always feel uncomfortable, and that their male co-workers will never feel comfortable with them and will be apprehensive if they are anywhere around.

Then, once you've done this, blame the toxic environment you've created on male sexism. It's a positive feedback loop.

Comment Re:Who keeps posting this garbage? (Score 5, Informative) 613

Sorry ladies, that's not why you're being treated like crap in grad school. You're being treated like crap because everyone is treated like crap in grad school. Yes, something should be done about that, but it isn't driven by sexism.

There's an couple pat answers to that, though:

F: "Bad thing X happened to me! I'm being oppressed because of my gender!"
M: "Bad thing X happens to everyone"
F: "Stop mansplaining, shitlord oppressor!"

F: "Bad thing X happened to me! I'm being oppressed because of my gender!"
M: "What are you talking about? Bad thing X happens to me all the time"
F: "It's not about YOU, shitlord oppressor!"

Comment Re:It is (Score 1) 613

No, we're not actually outsiders. Your SJW group is very small; it's just powerful for its size because it is utterly ruthless and has the protection of authority. Most everyone else has to keep their heads down where you reign. But I think you've about reached your limit and are on the downswing. Your hypocrisy is showing everywhere. Your tactics have generated disgust in the uninvolved. Your overreach has been spotlighted on the national stage (more than once). You have influential opponents in the Left as well as the Right.

Much of your power lay in your pretense and conviction that your views represent the majority of people and the totality of right-thinking people. It's becoming clearer and clearer that this is simply not the case. You're going to go back to being just another radical hate group, same way as you started.

Comment Re:Pretty weak (Score 0) 386

C++ exceptions in particular aren't "broke". But exceptions in general are. The last thing I need in my language is spooky action at a distance. When I write two function calls in a row I want to know that, barring the end of the process, once the first is completed it'll execute the second. Not skip executing the second because somewhere deep in a library routine an exception was thrown that was caught somewhere above me in the call stack.

Comment Re: nature will breed it out (Score 1) 950

Men being cavemen is reinforced by women -- regressive / aggressive behavior is rewarded by them. They like to bitch about knuckledragger behavior, yet men who don't exhibit it are ignored in the dating / mating arena.

Well, if that's what you believe, the logical thing to do is to behave that way and succeed.

And in that way, a pickup artist is born.

As someone else pointed out upthread, the problem with PUAs isn't so much them; they're insignificant compared to the larger population of men who act that way naturally. The problem with PUAs is they succeed... and that's not really a problem they've created.

Comment Re:nature will breed it out (Score 1) 950

If you change "male" to "female" then that's exactly what feminists were saying back in the 60s. You can fix the problem by adopting feminist ideals. Feminists want the same liberation for men, always have.

Meanwhile your fellow SJW PopeRatzo is busy razzing men for being unmasculine "pissbabies"; the masculine idea, of course, is to never complain.

Comment Re:Circular logic (Score 1) 216

It's completely in accordance with Smith v. Maryland, which is the controlling law. Smith v. Maryland involved one tap on one person's phone; it's been used to cover the NSA bulk metadata collection program, thus proving the slippery slope is not a fallacy.

It'll take the robed 9 to overturn it, but they likely won't.

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