What about the men (who are not polar bears)?

I’ve never seen people that are so outraged by the most mundane shit. Seriously, are all MRA’s super privileged white guys with too much time on their hands?

@Subtract Hominem

Sometimes I wonder whether these assholes have selective memory in order to score political points.

I adore Bec Shaw (and the parody account) and I love that the polar bear’s name is Mishka – ’twas my nickname growing up.

Most of Arguing Guy’s figures are roughly correct, for Australia anyway (except wrt homelessness; men make up 56% of the total). And these are indeed serious problems. I hope that Arguing Guy is working to change the following:

1. indigenous Australians make up only 3% of the population, but about a quarter of the homeless population, and many of these are men.
2. most of the asylum-seekers on Manus Island (all of whom are male) have severe mental health issues, including suicidal ideation.
3. workplace deaths – this is what unions are constantly working to improve. I have no idea what Arguing Guy’s views are, but I do know that many people who yell about male deaths on the job are also anti-union and anti-regulation.

Plenty of good work being done by plenty of good people on these problems, but more help is always needed and welcomed! Just a suggestion, Arguing Guy 🙂

i am jealous of polar bears, but mostly because bears are great. I’m not sure if that applies here though.

Not sure if its been covered here but this is hilarious: http://www.cracked.com/blog/i-read-steven-seagalE28099s-insane-novel-so-you-donE28099t-have-to/

TreePerson:

That was brilliant. The worst fan fiction I ever read was better than some of that shit. Thanks for finding and sharing.

Michael Morrison is upset by polar bears getting all the attention. MRAs (aka sexist authoritarians) always have a problem with animals.

They call women birds, pigs, chicks, sows, cows, heifers, etc.

They’re mad that a woman might prefer her cat to an MRA.

These sexist authoritarians also have a problem with nature. They’re trying to destroy our beautiful planet, our one and only home.

Whatever they can’t control, they attempt to demean or kill.

Then they’re sad when people spot this character trait and want nothing to do with them.

I guess I’d be sad too if I were a terrible human being.

May it be so.

The Force of Decency Awakens

Paul Krugman FEB. 26, 2018

A funny thing is happening on the American scene: a powerful upwelling of decency. . . . [W]e may be in the midst of a transformative moment.

You can see the abrupt turn toward decency in the rise of the #MeToo movement; in a matter of months ground that had seemed immovable shifted, and powerful sexual predators started facing career-ending consequences.

You can see it in the reactions to the Parkland school massacre. . . . [T]he story is staying at the top of the news, and associating with the N.R.A. is starting to look like the political and business poison it should have been all along.

And . . . you can see it at the ballot box, where hard-right politicians in usually reliable Republican districts keep being defeated thanks to surging activism by ordinary citizens. . . .

Political scientists have a term and a theory for what we’re seeing on #MeToo, guns and perhaps more: “regime change cascades.”

Here’s how it works: When people see the status quo as immovable, they tend to be passive even if they are themselves dissatisfied. Indeed, they may be unwilling to reveal their discontent, or to fully admit it to themselves. But once they see others visibly taking a stand, they both gain more confidence in their dissent and become more willing to act on it — and by their actions they may induce the same response in others, causing a kind of chain reaction.

Such cascades explain how huge political upheavals can quickly emerge, seemingly out of nowhere. Examples include the revolutions that swept Europe in 1848, the sudden collapse of communism in 1989 and the Arab Spring of 2011.

Now, nothing says that such cascades have to be positive either in their motivations or in their results. . . . [H]istorians have described 1848 as a turning point where history somehow failed to turn: At the end of the day the old, corrupt regimes were still standing.

I nevertheless find the surge of indignation now building in America hugely encouraging. And yes, I think it’s all one surge. The #MeToo movement, the refusal to shrug off the Parkland massacre, the new political activism of outraged citizens (many of them women) all stem from a common perception: namely, that it’s not just about ideology, but that far too much power rests in the hands of men who are simply bad people. . . .

Again, there’s no guarantee that the forces of decency will win. In particular, the U.S. electoral system is in effect rigged in favor of Republicans, so Democrats will need to win the popular vote by something like seven percentage points to take the House. But we’re seeing a real uprising here, and there’s every reason to hope that change is coming.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/opinion/the-force-of-decency-awakens.html

If MRAs really are eager to go head-to-head with the polar bear, I’m cool with putting them on ice-floes together to duke it out.

(Oh hello! Been a while since I last posted here! Sorry for that…)

And… now I’m writing a rock song called “What About the Men?!?”… at the moment the lyrics are more straightforward rather than satirical because I’m generally bad at satire, but… I may be able to go for satire if I can pull it off… we’ll see…

90% of the murders and almost 75% of the violent crimes are committed by men too (at least in the US), but somehow MRAs never bring that up

Course they do. It’s proof to them that women are slackers who’d rather sit around eating bon bons than do their part. The men are having to give it 150% to make up for the shortfall in violent women.

I didn’t look at Andy Waters further tweets, because I didn’t want to loose the sense of “not so horrible, probably still sane, at last not impolite” (the last one makes for easier discusion).

The first one is for me the more interesting one.
Homeless people and work placesafty are topics that if you want to increase the situation nobody will say anythink against it.

Interesting question is for me of course why there are more homeless men than women since women are more in danger of getting poor.

About worksafty:
One reason is that men seem to do more manual work, aka more dangerous work, historical. This is chanching in western society, so this number would be very interesting to see how it veries from country to country.
Another reason is that men try to be overconfident, or not paying attention more often than women. (from my experience)

About life expectancy:
In my homecoutry the difference from the last UNStudie its 4.7 years.
What I heared (sorry have no source) that the difference is shrinking.
For Germany one of the mainreasons for males dying earlier was war that is no longer a reason for dying today.
One of the other reasons for the gab getting closer is that women are taking all kind of jobs today and a dangerous life/ having unhealthy habbits is more common among femals than it was one centuary ago.

Making it longer, everythink is good, as long as we stay healthy, but I found a country were the difference is only about 1 year.
Unfortunatly I think most men would take that women live longer 4-5 years and live in everance 30 years longer than women living only a year longer and both sexes die around 50 in avarange.

Edit: Happy PolarBearday even if I am a bit late.

@Mish
Do they even know Far Cry 3/4 exist or do they think that Far Cry 5 just came into existence with that number for no reason?

I’m imagining these people saw wolfenstein II and went “gasp A game where you kill nazis!? Imagine if it was about killing Muslims the snowflakes would be in a tizzy!”