I believe the equation is vag + opinions = awful

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said waterboarding is considered a form of torture. I'm pretty sure their opinion matters more than just some random "educated intelligent people."

That's absurdly untrue.

That's a man, not a monster!

Hey, Kentucky is not all bad! You only have to drive 15 minutes outside where I live to get to a bourbon distillery, but you have to drive an hour before you hit Trump yard signs.

But I always lose that game!

Calm down. Wilderhair is just quoting the Simpsons.

No, you completely missed the point of my post. I'm saying that only men used to be hired preferentially but now women are being hired at equal rates, hence why I mentioned the change in demographics in the department. The pay gap was due to discrimination at the hiring level - women weren't being hired for…

Do you have any actual evidence that women pursued STEM fields in the Soviet bloc because they were not poisoned by politics? Do you really think that scientists were not interfered with extensively by the communist party? (Hint: They were. Who built the bombs and worked on creating bio-weapons? Scientists! Therefore,…

Mrs A has already given you reasons and you didn't accept them. You keep changing the argument every time someone responds to you. At this point you're just trolling.

Yes there is evidence of that. Compare women pursuing STEM careers in the US with those of Soviet bloc countries during communism. Communism proposes equality between men and women* so women were welcomed in STEM careers there and the number of women pursuing STEM careers in the Soviet bloc was staggeringly higher…

It's nice that since I work for a state-funded university, I can look up everybody's salary. So I can confirm there is currently a huge pay gap in my department (biology), but that will hopefully change once the old tenured professors start to retire (almost all men) and the younger professors move up (about equal…

You are quoting a figure that takes the average pay gap across all professions (which is 77 cents) and includes the estimated effect of women choosing different kinds of jobs because they have children. There is still a huge pay gap within many professions (sometimes higher than 77 cents). So if you are a female nurse…

No, I'm arguing that female daycare workers should be paid the same as male daycare workers. Same pay for the same job, not same pay for everyone in any job. The 77 cent wage gap is an average across professions so in some cases women are paid more than men, but most of the time they are paid less for the same job. I…

Except that in many professions it is true that women working the same job make less than men. So it's not outright lying; there just needs to be more nuance to the argument.

Yeah it's totally weird that women drop out of the workforce after giving birth because putting your six week old baby in daycare (the cost of which eats up most of your wages) and sitting in a bathroom stall at work to pump breast milk is super duper fun.

You might want to read those articles you're linking to. Politifact says that 77 cents on the dollar gap does exist when averaged over all professions. In some professions the gap is bigger and in some it is smaller. That 3 to 8% figure is only after taking into account leaving the workforce or taking part time jobs…

No, it's not simple. But your simplification isn't any more accurate than the video.

And don't forget: that lady boss they had was definitely a total ball-breaker and/or lesbian and/or hated MRA dude just because he was a man so went out of her way to make his life hell and discriminated against him for his "beliefs."

The Lynchian set-up wasn't meant to mess with our heads—it was meant to mess with Angela's. Think about how people are prepared for brainwashing: they are taken out of their element and forced to feel they have no control over the situation. They have to be broken before they can accept a new reality. (Remember,…