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Moralistic bleeping

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#picksthattickleme  My search. Google only gets people who want to turn off cursing. Not people who want to turn off moralising totalitarianism of opinion-mongers who want to 'protect' their children. I'm a fucking adult!

Positive note about institutions

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  In the olden days (and in American in the new den days), bigotry infested public institutions. The people who didn't like the bigotryand wanted to, for example marry homos, had to leave government or suck it up. Then public institutions were lobbied for decades by people representing race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or other bases of discrimination. The government... Or institution considered the arguments, consulted, read the studies, made committees and write Constitutions and bills based on creating an equitable environment for all (aka government mandate) to thrive was manifested. Now people in the instution who don't want to enact government not-bigotries want to be able to not enact the rules, for example, not marry homos, don't want to leave government t and don't want to suck it up. And they feel descriminated against.  Government is not secular, government is calling us to provi...

Treating people like criminals

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Even if you know me, you may not know that something that bugs me is that, as the world is divided into goodies and baddies - that people who are goodies get treated like baddies 'in case'. So yes, that applies to me. Men should be treated with caution. I think a certain level of caution is warranted in life-and-death situations, even situations that men don't think are life and death. So, always meet in a public place, and give your friend their researched identity number and phone number before leaving the house. And men, for their part, bring your mother to the date and two of your male friends. Do your bit to show women you know they are vulnerable. However, I don't want to hand in my handbag to a shop locker when I go into a store. Capitalism's loss is not life and death. Put up a camera and witness my honesty.

Genre popularity over time

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  Source: NoFilmSchool.com

Women don't choose certain professions

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The next time you're tempted to think that women's choices about subjects to take or jobs to apply for, think about these subtle signals that we are peppered with daily that underscore the message "We don't want you here." The subtle ways that discrimination works https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/20/the-subtle-ways-that-discrimination-works

Review of 'Feminism's Dependency Trap' on Quillette

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Quillette:  https://quillette.com/2018/12/20/feminisms-dependency-trap/ I don't agree with this article. The article is written by a woman raising issues about how feminists define themselves in the negative against their issues with men and saying that's a problem.  That is how the world changes its ideas. Oh gosh, I hate the capitalism stuff - it's greedy, it prevents creative solutions, it tends to the lowest common denominator... What would world look like without it? People would would work because they want to, they would be paid within an equity scale. That is how ideas happen. They examine what is wrong with the world and come up with alternate ideas. And the people with power and things to lose resist the ideas and the changes. And then there's a revolution.  I don't think the author understands the process of world change.  She sneers at women driving cars their fathers bought and receiving education from the pockets of their fathers' ...