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Comment Re:The title (Score 1) 398

The title of this article is a good summary of why men are leaving. "Men feel they're being marginalized." "Oh my God! We need to find out how this is harming women!"

Men feel they are being marginalized, and many take it on women. That's a fact. Also, the operative word here is "feel".

It takes one giant shitflake for a 1st world man to feel marginalized, with all the opportunities this country provides.

Way to completely gloss over the actual problem just to confirm your agenda. The issue isn't wether or not men "feel" marginalized. There's a discrepancy and there are valid interpretations of that discrepancy - one of which is actual marginalization. The problem is that even if they were being marginalized and everyone agreed on that interpretation, it isn't seen as a problem for men, but for women. It's the Hilary Clinton philosophy that even though everyone acknowledges that men are the ones getting maimed and dying in wars, the REAL victims are women. It's the same belief system that thinks the REAL problem with homelessness is that 1 out of every 5 homeless are women. But good luck convincing the self-loathing liberal white knight that other men might not have the same privileges he's convinced they have.

Comment Re:Wage Gap Debunked (Score 1) 398

Please stop posting this misinformation. Its choices that make up the difference, not actual pay.

Exactly! FTFA: "Women are overrepresented in low-paying professions that require college credentials." And who is making the choice to go into those low-paying professions? Last I checked, guidance counselors weren't putting a pistol to women's heads when they select their majors.

Comment Re:Nuanced decisions (Score 1) 88

These are $12/hr sub-sub contractors in a cube farm in Texas who only take the job to exercise some political power.

See the Veritas undercover video for a sense of how they actually think. It's your stupid neighbor who can't quite handle customer service at the supermarket due to personality traits.

The only sense in which Project "Veritas" is truthful is that they tell us exactly what unethical or illegal behavior they're behaving in by accusing others of it first. You know... kinda like Trump.

Comment Re:Craigslist (Score 5, Informative) 94

Are you serious? Where do you live? Craigslist is probably the most comprehensive site for rental/sublet/roommate listings in the LA area. I'm guessing, but I'd venture to say 3/4ths of the listings are by property management companies or realtors. Frankly, you'd be a moron for not looking on Craigslist in SoCal.

Comment Re: One Possible Solution (Score 1) 215

I'm gonna guess you spent a lot of time as a child standing on the sidewalk yelling "you can't touch me! This is government property!" at your neighbors. The only people who care about these kinds of things are people who join HOA boards.

p.s.: the mailman doesn't give a rat's ass if your mailbox is compliant or not unless it makes his or her job harder. If the USPS stopped service, you got ratted out by some neighbor who didn't like you, and I can totally understand why.

p.p.s: My mailbox was custom made out of an old Dodge fender by my body guy when he painted a car for me 22 years ago. It's been mounted at 4 houses in 3 different states and I've never heard a peep from anyone.

Comment Re:a terrorist is a terrorist (Score 3, Insightful) 925

Can someone tell me what Republican positions and policies are 'white supremicist'?

Seriously, this is a bullshit statement by twitter....

And this is a bullshit statement by you. Just exactly which Twitter statement are whinging about? Neither the headline nor the article mentioned Republican positions or policies as being 'white supremicist'. If you want examples of tweets by Republicans that would get someone banned for being 'white supremicist' then just RTFA.

Comment Reading comprehension anyone? (Score 2, Informative) 194

Does anyone actually read anymore or is it just knee-jerk reactions to click-bait pull words? Yes, Facebook DEMANDS you validate your e-mail address. Pretty much every site on the planet does. Facebook OFFERS to allow you to be an idiot and give them your password to do it. Exactly zero percent of this headline or the click-baity article is accurate.

Comment Re:Climate change (Score 5, Insightful) 160

I've been told wet weather is a sign of climate change. Two years ago, drought was a sign of climate change. It's an all powerful phenomenon that explains everything.

I've been told the inability to track a straight line is a sign of poor alignment in a car. I've also been told that difficulty in turning is also a sign of poor alignment in a car. I've been told that the inability to stop is a sign of bad brake adjustment. I've been told that sudden jerky stops are also a sign of bad brake adjustment. I've been told that an engine failing to heat up can be caused by a bad thermostat. I've been told that a car overheating can also be caused by a bad thermostat. Gosh, it's almost as if opposing extremes in a given system can be caused by the same thing!

Comment Re:Does it matter? (Score 1) 297

""This person negotiated better" isn't a valid excuse either, unless the job is salary negotiation."

That is backwards. Companies don't pay what is fair and shouldn't. They pay the least they can pay and acquire and retain the talent for as long as they need to. They need the poorly negotiated low salaries to subsidize the people in strong positions who demand better than market rates.

Uh.. people in strong positions are in a different market. I agree that negotiation isn't a valid excuse because it's not negotiation at that point: it's having done your research to know what market you're in. When I hire, I don't negotiate salary. I have a pay scale based on your skill and that's what you get. If that doesn't work for you, then my company isn't for you. I don't try to hire experienced top-tier salary at the low end of the scale and see if they can negotiate their way up. Who the hell would work for a company like that?

Comment Re:More freedom (Score 1) 308

To communicate, share, think, comment is always good.

No! Jesus christ on a cracker, no it's not! The ability to talk unchecked with no consequence for being wrong or inaccurate, is literally killing people. The anti-vaccination movement is driven entirely by the wrong people communicating, sharing, and commenting utter nonsense and people - mostly children - are dying because of it. Communicating, sharing, commenting is only good when there are consequences for what you've communicated, shared, or commented. And sometimes the consequence needs to be getting your big fat mouth shut for you.

Comment Re:History on one's side (Score 2) 293

It's almost as if each side is touting as important a political philosophy that helps them in this case, but the opposite in most other cases, and they are all power hungry hacks.

Nah.

It's almost as if each side is touting as important a political philosophy that helps them in this case because they're adults who are capable of understanding that while adult problems are nuanced and multi-sided, political philosophies tend not to be, and that sometimes sticking to a party line doesn't make sense when it helps the children they're in charge of, even when those children are too dumb to understand that and would rather sit in the corner calling them "power hungry hacks".

Comment Re:too many confounding effects (Score 1) 275

The answer is so simple I'm surprised that no one sees it. Perhaps a forest for thye trees situation.

At the bery least, men doctors should not be allowed to treat female patients.

The actual solution is to remove males as physicians. Only allow females to be physicians. The problem will go away.

Can anyone come up with a reason why my solution will not work?

Yeah, I can come up with a great reason why it wouldn't work, and if you'd approached the article without your obvious bias, so would you. You seem to be gleefully glossing over this little tidbit FTFA:

"The more female colleagues a male emergency physician had, the more likely his female patients were to survive as well."

Women do equally well with men and women patients precisely BECAUSE they have so many male colleagues. Yours is typical modern feminist thinking: it's only a problem if it's happening to women. Removing men from being physicians will eventually make women just as bad at treating men as men are currently at treating women. The solution isn't reducing the number of male physicians, but increasing the number of their female colleagues.

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