Let her talk and defend her views, or let her talk and change her views.

Ageism is alive, well, and applauded. Self-examination is a good thing for everyone.

Whether I agree with her opinions or not, I think asking older women—especially one of Greer’s background— to sit down and let the young’uns take over is a bit much, too.
Let her talk and defend her views, or let her talk and change her views. If we just tell her to sit down and shut up, old lady with outdated views,…

Because there was a major change in the law as to what constitutes rape. There has also been major awareness campaigns, Swedish people have a favorable view toward the police, and there’s greater gender equality there ( the more empowered women are the more likely they will report the rape) So, no immigrants are not…

The only thing that represents is how under reported rape is in the countries on the right side of that graph. That and there are extensive articles on how rape is reported in Sweden ( in light of the Asange case) and how it differs from other European countries.

Sweden is not the rape capital of the world it’s the reported rape capital of the world. Quite a big difference.

Female is an adjective. A female human is a woman. A male human is a man. It’s like saying someone is “a black” or “an Hispanic.” It’s disrespectful and marginalizing.

Does this look like a military forum? It’s not. Code switch and talk like a normal, respectful person.

interesting that women are always sidelined in the military for being “too weak” to carry their duties, but the manosphere is full of men insisting that women are capable of raping men too.

Also the Kurds. Their militias include significant percentages of women, and they have many female commanders. They’re in arguably the shittiest place in the world right now with insufficient food, outdated and insufficient weapons, and enemies on all sides, but they’re still kicking. ISIS ass, specifically.

This is the thing I find so baffling about this conversation—women have been in combat in Canada, Israel, and a whole bunch of other places. And it’s been fine!

I have two females I work with that weight under 140 lbs and could not pick me up or drag me if their life depended on it.

Well, hey, now that we have a few anecdotes about some poorly performing “females” from your training days, who needs a publicly-funded scientific study?

“mixed-gender units had “superior problem-solving” and better discipline.”

What about the women that did leave the baby at home? I’m sure someone else there was breastfeeding/had to hire a sitter/found an expensive daycare. Why does this person get to skip all that when 100 other women didn’t? What makes this one woman so special?

I think you can ask ahead to organizers about how child friendly the event is. Better to know ahead of time than to be flustered with new information on the day of an event, right?

Same here: no kids but heavily in the throes of baby fever and make idiotic faces at children and babies on planes and restaurants and yet...noise is noise, yes? I mean, if I attended a conference and was chatting loudly to the person next to me during a keynote and someone asked me to keep it down they’re not trying…

I can agree with that. Even if it didn’t explicitly state no children, it was described to her as:

Yep.

DISCLAIMER: I do not have any babies but I’m kind of in baby fever right now (!) and actually volunteered to sit on a plane next to a baby like a crazy person. So this is not coming from hate.