What I'm "railing against" is that a meme is being perpetuated that actually runs counter to real data.
What I'm "railing against" is that a meme is being perpetuated that actually runs counter to real data.
Because people pay attention to comedians more than they do actual statistics. I'm not taking it as a claim of anything, but people repost this clip endlessly saying "oh, how true." but it's not.
The trouble is that it exaggerates one threat while effectively dismissing a much greater threat. This isn't trivial. I know far more women whose lives have been cut short by heart disease than male violence.
Actually, from what i've read in cases of same-sex abuse it isn't always the larger or more physically imposing person doing the abuse.
And yet...23% of all deaths of women in a given year are from heart disease, whereas homicide is not even in the top ten.http://www.cdc.gov/women/lcod/201…
Or because he's talking out of his ass.
Thing is, yhowever, I have encountered plenty of people who sort of believe this unironically, not necessarily on a "let's round em up" level but on a level of "testosterone is a poison" (although I believe both sexes have the hormone)
IMHO satire is very, very hard to pull off.
Too bad he's wrong.
he's actually Gen X.
Just wa
Fucking Badger.
Fucking Badger.
Marry me.