Damn :( well thanks for the info! I've experienced pretty much what you described. It's a weird horrible balance between bad science and conspiracy theories, and when you think you've solved one in their head they'll just jump to the other. I guess we'll have to keep up the DADT vaccine policy for now until I master…
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Does anyone know a good approach to help educate an anti-vaxer, or has had any success? This is probably one of the biggest point of conflicts in my relationship, and while we usually just avoid it like the plague (well I'm avoiding the plague, he didn't get a shot for that...) I'm kind of at a point where this is…
There's some elements I like about Waldorf (okay I taught art, I'm bias here and they can bribe me with interjecting art into all subjects and I really like the idea of some of the interdisciplinary ideas), but there's a lot of weird crap as well. It has some interesting pedagogic ideas, but honestly the whole thing…
I don't know, maybe in the past, but right now I'd say at least half of the resistance is from guys (at least in the sex positive community...but really outside of that you're going to get people resisting to female sex toys too). When the topic came up here last few of the commenters expressed a interest, but a good…
I theorize that people who fear evo psych are just insecure and it is a natural evolutionary reaction to try and tear down things you know are right but make you uncomfortable. My proof? Look at how many people get upset whenever it is mentioned. Obviously I'm onto something.
Green and blue vaginas might not be evolutionarily fit here, but give America a few hundred years to evolve into Panem and you'll be a hit in Capitol.
"I'm left thinking literally you're too stupid to understand that a word can have more than one meaning, and that those meanings can be completely unrelated (whether one of those meanings is a slur or not)."
They're on the Wikipedia disambiguation page because they're listed as an acronym, not because that's what they go by. I'm pretty sure the vancouver art gallery doesn't run around calling themselves "vag", but they're going to be listed under there because that's how Wikipedia groups people.
Whether or not it was their intention to harm Japanese-Americans they did. It doesn't matter if the words have nothing to do with each other. It's using the exact same racial slur word only applying it to a different group of people and giving it lesser meaning. If Japanese Americans were a larger minority, or if…
I never said that I was creating a backronym. I'm not being ignorant, you're simply putting words in my mouth. I asked what would you think if such a term naturally came into existence and then was turned into an acronym. What if it was a coincidence too? Would people have the right then to be pissed off? Would it be…
Does the journal of applied physics regularly call each other japs derogatively? Did they set out to appropriate a racial slur as their own? I'm pretty sure if they changed their title to jap magazine that they'd get into a lot of shit. We're talking about a case where jap has been adopted into a main term with little…
Bah, it's 4am and I'm tired. What I meant is if you start running around using it in the same context (as a racial insult) you're going to upset some people. Sure "chink" can be used within the context of armour, but I'm talking about adapting a racial slur into another (gather what people are saying) lesser racial…
Again, I admitted to not being familiar with online dating and I stand corrected on that front. It seems extremely odd to me that someone would be setting up dates with 12 different people at the same time unless they were poly, but I see what you guys mean. I think I'm just viewing it from a traditional-dating…
But still homonyms to a racial slur. Like I told halli620 I understand how different places with different demographics and histories might see language in separate ways, it just seems ultimately really disrespectful to Japanese-Americans. I know if 'chink' was a homonym or acronym to something else I would probably…
I'll take your word for it not being seen as offensive in a Jewish sense because I'm unfamiliar in a personal level, and I do understand that nobody set out to create that acronym the way it is, but it is still offensive to many Japanese-Americans and still a racial slur to them. Again I think it's a bit of culture…
I feel it's more like he systematically judged, ranked, insulted one and then decided to ship his report off to someone else which makes him a douche. If he kept it to himself I could see the argument of it being harmless, even give him the benefit of the doubt. But to me the second he sent it to another person it…
But what about Japanese people? I'm wondering if it's a west-coast thing, but I recall it being discussed in junior high as an unacceptable and extremely derogative term on par with the n-word. We also have a very dark history with a couple huge WWII Japanese internment camps in a 100km radius, and a horrible history…
It seems really off to me, but I've never had the delight of online dating so I'm note entirely sure how that would change things. Juggling 12 women at the same time seem like a bit of a red flag (unless he's openly non-monogamous/polyamorous which would change everything). His nastier remarks/appearance scale is…
Well you could sit down and spend hours writing out and singing woe is you MRA style, or you could get off your ass and actually be helpful. Most of their complaints (toxic masculinity, biases in court, fathers seen as less, ect.) are dealt with in feminism, and if they actually gave a shit about making a difference…