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Why is it ok to assume consent during fantasies? I can no longer enjoy erotic fantasy unless consent is very clearly dealt with, but I worry that others' imaginations are not as ethical.
I admit that it sometimes affects my enjoyment of light-hearted pleasurable things and can cause people to use their *confused face* on me when I tell them. It started a few years ago, but now I can’t switch it off. My thing is… I just can’t enjoy fantasies unless consent is very clearly dealt with. Does that seem odd? I’m not entirely sure how it happened either, as I wasn’t always like this. It started a while ago with my own fantasies. I’d be imagining something hot happening with my latest crush, and then the logical side of my brain would step in and say, “but that would never happen.”…
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The internet is toxic – here are five possible cures The Internet can be a tremendously awful place. Here are some ideas for solutions from thinkers all over the world.
Anybody who’s spent any amount of time logged on knows that the Internet can be a tremendously awful place. The same series of tubes that brings us movie trailers and dog pics are also used to deliver hatred and vitriol from complete strangers. And if you think that things are getting worse online, you’re right. The Internet Health Report, a new project from Mozilla, aims to build a picture of the sanity and stability of the Internet, all three billion online souls who make it what it is. It’s a dense and difficult report, full of information, and although there are certainly some positives, it also offers some chilling predictions.…
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Seeing poor white people makes me happy By Nicholas Powers, associate professor at State University of New York (SUNY).
[The following piece was written by Nicholas Powers, an associate professor at State University of New York (SUNY), and first published by website RaceBaitr on June 11, 2019. The website scrubbed the piece from the internet rather than responding when faced with questions from right-wing journalists. Coverage: NY Post, Washington Times, Breitbart.] “Should I kick him in the face? Hard? No, chill, he’s not worth it. But why is this white boy begging for money in a Black neighborhood? Is he stupid?” I shake the evil out of my head and go into the subway. He comes every Spring. The homeless white boy flaps down like a dirty migratory bird, makes…
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No, autism isn’t a gift—for parents, it’s literal hell The media will have you believe autism is just about being a really smart guy with little to no social skills. It's a lie.
The entertainment industry, allied with know-nothings on social media who will say or retweet anything for a jolt of virtue-dopamine, is advancing a meme best summarized as “autism is a gift.” According to the meme, Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory being a good representative, autism is just about being a really smart guy with little to no social skills. This couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m dad to an almost five year old son who is diagnosed moderate-severe autistic, and I have the scratches, bite marks, and scars, to prove it. Depending on the spectrum/scale/whatever you use, he would be on ASD 2.5 or something similar. He goes…
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Melbourne U limiting academic appointments to women is a disaster—for women It’s going to do exactly the opposite of what they hope for.
In an effort to promote the tired, stale and just plain wrong idea that women and men are equally capable of, and equally interested in university level mathematics and statistics, Melbourne University in Australia has limited three academic appointments to women applicants only. The head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Professor Aleks Owczarek, said the decision had been taken to promote change. “We clearly have an issue with attracting female applicants appropriately to our workforce,” Professor Owczarek said. “So this is an agenda to attempt to address that.” It’s going to do exactly the opposite of what they hope for. See, here’s the thing: in every occupational category,…
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4 ways a psychology degree can ruin your relationship Whether by design or accident, here are the ways a psychology degree can damage or destroy a relationship.
Despite all the mentally ill people who have been helped with the assistance of psychology, every useful thing in this world can be wielded as a weapon as well — including psychology. A psychology degree may damage a person’s relationship directly or inadvertently; knowledge and training can be utilized, even subconsciously, to pick apart fights, start them, or inflict hurtful situations on others without consequence. Using psychology in a detrimental manner can even be an accident. A person with a psychology degree may mean well, but can misuse their training in their emotionally charged state. Some are crueler, and may use their knowledge of psychology to get away with acting…
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Women have earned 10 MILLION more college degrees than men since 1982 — but in what? A deep dive.
According to The Department of Education, women are now earning the majority of college degrees in the US, with approximately 140 women graduating from college for every 100 men. I can’t provide a link for you because: Dear Users, Due to a lapse of appropriations and the partial shutdown of the Federal Government, the systems that host nces.ed.gov have been shut down. Services will be restored as soon as a continuing resolution to provide funding has been enacted. IES – Institute of Education Sciences http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_310.asp …so you’ll have to take my word for it. There are two things that are interesting about this. First up, where is the concern over…
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A decade of dishes will turn a girl into a woman And a sensible one, at that.
According to Business Insider, the highest unemployment rates for people who graduated from college are for architecture majors (13.9 % unemployment), arts majors (11.1%) and humanities and liberal arts majors (9.4%). Hmm. Just the disciplines women tend to cluster in. How perfect. Spend $50 000 plus dollars on a degree that doesn’t even get you a job. Too bad the Gawker site has been affected by Hurricane Sandy, because they run a regular feature about unemployment, and you should hear the moany liberal arts graduates blaming everyone but themselves for their unemployment. Yeah, because normally there are tons of jobs for cultural anthropology/women’s studies majors. It’s called being a barista…
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The walk of shame is a right of passage, not rape Poor judgement — moi? Ce n’est pas possible!
Coyote ugly. It’s a phrase men use to describe the experience of waking up, hungover as shit, in bed next to a girl so ugly you’d rather chew your arm off than have her stir. Yep, another night of too many shooters and very poor judgement. Well played, tequila. I’m willing to bet that every single varsity athlete or high status (medicine, engineering, computer science) male on any given college campus has had the experience. Why? Because they get hunted. All the time. By women. You see these guys staggering bleary-eyed into the dorm rooms the next morning, bro-punching their friends and saying “Dude, how could you let me do that?” The…
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Are your life and relationship all planned out? I have spent many years questioning the things I thought, as a child, were certainties in life.
Do you have a life plan, or are you one of those people who decides to just see where things take you? Are you ticking things off on a list, or are you constantly re-evaluating what you want and need? As kids, many of us plan out our future life – e.g. school, college/university, job, marriage, house, kids – but then there comes a time when you start questioning that plan. But we all still need to know where we’re heading, right? I have spent many years questioning the things I thought, as a child, were certainties in life. I knew I definitely wanted to go to university but, other…