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Yeah, men are always terrorists

>Their motives are viewed as personal, and thus their personal lives are intensely investigated after an attack. The goal of that investigation isn’t to understand the woman – at least in the sense that we wish to understand her male counterpart. The goal is, instead, to find reasons to explain away that woman’s violence. This effort is undertaken to make her less of an existential and normative threat. It allows security personnel to ignore the wider security implications of militant women and it allows the targeted society to dismiss the woman as aberrant and not a “real” threat. Unfortunately, the factors that allow women to be successful terrorists are usually not addressed.

God, this made me so angry. Why are some people so defensive of their own suffering that they take a guy saying he's so respectful of women that he is afraid to feel sexual desire towards them, and turn it into him saying he's shocked that he has trouble finding women and expects them to throw themselves at him?

I'm so impressed by both Scott Alexander and Scott Aaronson. They're so respectful - they face being mocked by certain feminists, having their words distorted beyond recognition and being called entitled... yet they both are feminists still, and Alexander still remains respectful of Laurie Penny, more just attacking her article rather than her herself. I'm amazed that they can stay that level-headed. I see the stuff feminists are doing, and... even though I know there are feminists like Christina Hoff Sommers, I still can't help but hate the movement and despite trying, I don't think there's any way I could call myself a feminist.

Personally I feel like being a female nerd is way easier than being a male nerd, especially in the STEM fields. There aren't a lot of women in tech and engineering and because of the social push for more equality of genders in those fields, they're clambering to find women. Google's putting a ton of effort in getting girls to code. I might be wrong, but it seems like women who are qualified have a much higher chance at being hired in those fields than men. It seems like women are praised for being nerdy while men are condemned for it.

That marketplace only thrives if the people and institutions that make up its actors actually value freedom of expression. People mostly work for private enterprises, many people get their educations at non-profit universities, and we communicate and publish on platforms owned by private companies.

No, Starbucks is not obliged to host your hot take on hot button issue "y," while you harangue the customers who just want a cup of coffee, yet, it would be foolish to disregard the ways that publishers and social media companies dominate the very market square in which we are having our debates.

This article on how contemporary censorship works in Russia is really illustrative:

https://theintercept.com/2016/02/15/putin-doesnt-need-to-censor-books-publishers-do-it-for-him/

There is no official censor, instead, publishing houses simply refuse to publish certain things because they fear backlash and litigation.

I lost my toucan forever on this Metafilter thread. There is a comment there that particularly captures the insanity:

> Really, we need to renormalize our relations so that the question isn't "Is she consenting right now?", but "will she regret this a week from now?".

This is ridiculously infantilizing of women, and playing directly into every stereotype the red pillers and the more paranoid MRAs have for them. And the "feminists" are eating that shit up!

Apparently some people don't understand why carnivores are important to Earth's ecosystems, so here's an interesting human-centric reason.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Cats-and-the-Black-Plague

Looks like it's not actually a boss, it's just the area you would have fought him in is filled with guys from the Ocelot unit. I thought it was like those boss fights in MGS1 where you've got to fight waves of mooks for some reason.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/914828-metal-gear-solid-3-snake-eater/answers/168059-defeating-the-end-early-

Edit: Or maybe it is one of those boss fights: http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/The_End

I'm having a hard time finding a solid answer, all of the descriptions seem kind of vague.

Not quite true. Mental illness is actually so broad of a definition that even a caffeine addiction counts. You can read more here https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/mental-illness/symptoms-causes/syc-20374968

Not really. Definition of "implies":

>Indicate the truth or existence of (something) by suggestion rather than explicit reference: from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/imply

But for points "2)" through "4)" above the implication would be untrue by the definition of the word implies. The "implication" only holds for point "1)". As all four points are possible correlation does not "imply" causation because 75% of the possibilities have nothing to do with forward causation and thus no such implication can be inferred.

Metafilter discovered this, and it's hilarious.

Particularly hilarious is the the most "upvoted" comment: He starts by claiming the thesis is false, because he recognizes that Richard Dawkins is liberal, like himself, so there can't possibly any in-group out-group component to his hatred of Richard Dawkins. Then he goes off on libertarians:

> More generally, this entire essay makes the assumption that those of us who criticize white privilege are doing so for ulterior reasons, which is extremely condescending, not to mention false. It is not surprisingly that this guy self-identifies as a "Grey Tribe" member and has a link on his sidebar to Popehat, one of the most foul and unpleasant mouthpieces of garbage Libertarianism: Libertarians don't just disagree with the idea of privilege, they even think that people who do believe in privilege are lying when they say they believe in it!

I mean, Jesus titty-fucking Christ, that is about as tone deaf as some gamer gater going "it's about ethics in game journalism, you dumb feminazi cunt", and they eat it right the fuck up, because it is attacking the out-group they actually hate more than right-wingers. The rebuttal actually proves the thesis.

Ah, this is Peter Seebach. I remember him. I used to post on a website he frequented back in the olden days of 2001-ish. Some interesting facts about him:

• he was a Quaker republican (and may still be one, I don't know enough about US politics to tell whether they've grown apart politically).

• He's written an interesting book on UNIX and a different one on C (but I think that's out of print).

• He really hates people who send him unsolicited faxes (I imagine this has dropped off in frequency lately). He conducted a campaign of lawsuits against people who used to do that 10 years ago.

• He was, iirc, married to a woman who identified as a man, and he and his wife disagreed about whether theirs was a gay marriage.

• He was, and still it seems is intelligent and worth listening to.