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Law student checking-in. A valley girl in my 1L crim law class thought that a husband kissing his sleeping wife on her cheek was sexual assault because she couldn't affirmatively consent while asleep.
Many current law students were born on or after 1995. According to Jean Twenge, this is the cut-off year for "iGen," a new generation of ultra-fragile, cotton ball-coddled servile authoritarian crybullies.
One semester while at a legal clinic, we held a plenary discussion about "what does justice mean to you?" Students were sorted in to groups of 4-5. Every group answered some variant of
>"Justice means social justice. It means recognizing historical wrongdoings, including those perpetuated by the legal system. It means creating alternative legal systems for victims like indigenous people (i.e., lighter sentencing than for everyone else). It means fighting for more equality, we don't have nearly enough equality."
I was the only student to point out that justice doesn't need a modifier. Justice is good enough on its own. It's gotten us this far. My group members disagreed. I was the only person to define justice as procedural fairness + treating like cases alike.
I study at a top 10 law school.
> I was interested about this too so I looked it up and was surprised at how lacking the research was.
Consider checking out Invisible Women, a great book discussing this topic in depth.
It also happens to mention that Viagra may be effective at treating period cramps.
To add to what u/Elliptical_Tangent said, Christopher Hitchens wrote an entire book on why Kissinger should probably be put on trial for war crimes.
not sure if you're serious but, free transport and specifically decommoditzing transportation is a great step towards leveling the playing field for poorer people. the reason why we don't have free transportation in America is because of politics, partly motivated by auto industry and partly motivated by socioeconomic/race factors.
a lot of countries around the world offer free or partially free public transportation - e.g. anyone over 60 in taiwan can ride the bus for free.
if you're interested in how cities and transportation got to where we are today, look up Jane Jacobs and her book, or watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwf5h3MIdRs.
This is pretty much exactly what Caroline Criado-Perez says in her recent book "Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men".
It's good to see that the awareness of this is spreading.
I don't know if this will help, but I just finished reading Invisible Women. It is an excellent read and it's absolutely appalling and infuriating to see all the places where women are just...not considered, and what the fallout of that is on a societal level. I don't think the word "feminism" occurs in the book, but it is very much a strong feminist statement with an absolute shitload of data to back it up.
Or just throw the whole boyfriend out, up to you.
https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071
Also worth googling is women’s second shift. It focuses on how labor isn’t divided equally in a marriage. Women take on not only more chores, but daily chores (dinner, cleaning, child care), while men tend to take weekly chores (mowing the lawn, taking out the trash). Not to mention they wind up maintaining their husband and children’s social calendar in addition to their own. Career wise, women are in danger of losing their careers and not doing well in interviews when they reveal to be engaged/married. Men get pay boosts when engaged married. Women are expected to abandon/sacrifice their careers for their family while men aren’t. The list goes on. But that book and that term second shift are a great place to start
Piggybacking on your comment to post this book and documentary about Kissinger both by Christopher Hitchens:
Book (amazon link): https://www.amazon.com/Trial-Henry-Kissinger-Christopher-Hitchens/dp/145552297X
Documentary (YouTube link): https://youtu.be/L5cwDFwteIY
Every facial recognition system to date has ran into the latter problem, some to extreme degrees. It is not rare by any stretch whatsoever.
The first is not rare, either.
https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071
that link's a great summary. the issue of most studies being done on young, white, male college students is a massive one that the general public, most of whom have taken a prescription, know nothing about. women are just considered 'smaller men' to their detriment. children are, too. the issue for pregnant women is even worse; they're told to go off all drugs/supplements not because we know those things are bad, but because we know nothing at all. absence of evidence is not evidence.
there's a book i consider a must-read for everyone, about how everything in the world is made for men because they're considered the default human. it's Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Crialdo-Perez. https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071
The Narcissism Epidemic was one of my original redpills BITD and a great read.
It is from 2009, so in all honesty I've forgotten a lot of the specifics.
I do remember the book disproving the "narcissists are really deeply insecure deep down" myth and in fact showed data that narcissists by nature have almost infinite narcissistic supply with self-doubt being completely absent.
It was also eye-opening and soul-crushing once you learn to recognize narcissistic patterns in people around you and the world-at-large to realize that life is oversaturated with immoral, fundamentally broken people who make life miserable for everyone around them and essentially can never be held to account.
They certainly were. They weren't the only ones though. Young people tend to be self involved, it is a fairly easy assertion to make.
I mean, this was published just a few years ago:
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Generation Me - Revised and Updated: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before
In this provocative and newly revised book, headline-making psychologist Dr. Jean Twenge explores why the young people she calls “Generation Me” are tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious but also disengaged, narcissistic, distrustful, and anxious.
Born in the ’80s, and ’90s and called “The Entitlement Generation” or Millennials, they are reshaping schools, colleges, and businesses all over the country. The children of the Baby Boomers are not only feeling the effects of the recession and the changing job market—they are affecting change the world over. Now, in this new edition of Generation Me, Dr. Twenge incorporates the latest research, data, and statistics, as well as new stories and cultural references, to show how “Gen Me-ers” have shifted the American character, redefining what it means to be an individual in today’s society.
https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Americans-Confident-Assertive-Entitled/dp/1476755566
I'd recommend "The Information," by James Gleick. It's about the ways that people have developed to communicate with one another and the ways that communication shapes culture and society.
https://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/1400096235
Don't walk, run to the....cartoon guide to stats. No joke! Saved my bacon in grad school. Not sure how it will look as a sited work.
Totally agree. Jean Twenge has written about its impact on youth (https://www.amazon.com/iGen-Super-Connected-Rebellious-Happy-Adulthood/dp/1501151983) - haven't read the book but I've seen some "correlation is not causation" criticism of it.
Eliminate single family zoning. Build more housing. Lots more housing. Build it on small lots. Lend money to motivated residents to improve their dwellings, or build new dwellings, or start businesses to provide services to new residents.
Don't build parking.
If you remove the causes of artificial scarcity, prevent cataclysmic change from superblock developments constructed by one or two highly capitalized out-of-town developers, and allow access to capital for residents the neighborhoods will improve on their own with much more demographic growth than demographic replacement.
statistics is magic for muggles :)
i've really enjoyed reading some of the "cartoon guide" series. Here's a link to the one on stats:
https://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Guide-Statistics-Larry-Gonick/dp/0062731025
Thank you for poking at male as the default. There is a great book, Invisible Women that shows how using male as the default has affected women with regards to medical research, designing cars and homes, availability and design of safety equipment, allocation of public works money, and so much more. Women make up fully half the population, yet we are underserved.
There is a great blog, The Man Who Has it All, that examines a lot of gender-specific “norms” by flipping them on their head. “I’m not a male doctor, I’m just a doctor!” - Evan, bring gender into everything, as always.
You're right, I'm totally incensed. How will I go on with my day?
Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation
It's the media that loves to stoke divisiveness for profit.
I would read Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez. Or The Will to Change by Bell Hooks!
Great reads that offer insight to how women navigate the world and perspective of patriarchal effects upon them.
Bell Hooks also deeply mentions how the patriarchy has hurt men; emasculated them and forced them into roles they were not meant to take.
I once read a really good book called "The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood" by James Gleick that starts with a chapter about tribes/nations in colonial era Africa that, for all intents and purposes, invented the first form of long-distance, near-instant communication. They created massive drums and would communicate messages across great distances by drumming something like morse code or the drum beats of regionally recognizable songs out into the world, and the people who needed to hear it would drum a message back. And they could out-pace the British or Portuguese or Flemish or whichever group of Europeans that was trying to colonize or interrupt their affairs along the coast, and they were of course unaware that they were fighting people with Iron-age cell phones.
So drums are a great way to convey information across long distances.
Read this https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071 It’s free to download on libgen.is
It explains the discrimination within society where men is seen as default and superior.
The question comes down to why there is a disparity in the first place based on something so arbitrary like genital shape. Something in society was built to create an imbalance
If anyone wants to understand more about "urban renewal" in NYC during the 60's and 70's, for me it's been best described through the lens of Jane Jacobs, an urbanist, journalist, and author of her book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities".
For a quick intro, this 25 minute documentary does a great job setting up the story of the social destruction in NY that resonates throughout the rest of North America.
Kissinger should be doing that from inside a prison cell.
https://www.amazon.com/Trial-Henry-Kissinger-Christopher-Hitchens/dp/145552297X
https://kurdistantribune.com/henry-kissinger-realpolitik-genocide/
Nixon was a horrific president.
Firstly, Nixon is THE reason that Henry Kissinger became malevolent. It's like giving young Putin the keys to the Kremlin...
Secondly, "Nixon goes to China". I'll let Nixon himself say what happened: " "We [Nixon and Kissinger] may have created a Frankenstein [monster]."—Richard Nixon on China.
Next you'll be telling me that Mussolini "wasn't that bad"...
And sadly, not even on trial
And while it's not specifically CF, if you're open to reading about how the world is basically designed for men and we just live in it (and more reasons to remain CF), this was a very interesting read https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=677f0330-bed6-42cf-a6aa-333c74291f77
Yup, this probably will be a hard thing, but OP has probably 7-10 years until this comes up. A lot can change in that time.
I suggest to read the iGen book to prepare somewhat (but remember: it have been released in 2017 so probably it will not be perfect when OP gets there).
Try Andy Field’s book _ Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics_. You don’t have to necessarily be an SPSS user to follow along, because he does a really good job explaining the concepts. Also, _ Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences_ was basically the stats bible in my PhD program (I/O Psychology).