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electronconf.com

ElectronConf Seattle 2017

[ranma-official]

Github eliminated gender bias in selecting conference speakers for ElectronConf by using randomized blind review, 100% of selected speakers turned out to be men, so they are cancelling the conference

amazing

[argumate]

now reveal the demographic breakdown of the reviewers

[mitigatedchaos]

For diversity purposes in tech companies, Asians count as white.  So obviously majority white, ofc.

I mean, you think I’m shitposting, but most of my shitposts are not completely groundless - there was a criticism of diversity levels at some Silicon Valley tech company a while back, and they conveniently left out that like 30% of the staff were Asian.

(And from what I’ve read, it’s Asians that take the actual brunt of Affirmative Action policies in schools… overall I’m not sure how long the political alignment will hold out.  The true racists are split on this matter from what I’ve seen.)

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@the-grey-tribe RE: No Reblog post: Feminism collectively never actually overcame male hyperagency. It has been incomplete since the day it was born.

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Mulan is Problematic

[argumate]

Let’s get down to business
 - capitalism stifles human flourishing

to defeat
 - war is the problem not the solution

the Huns
 - an oppressed group of impoverished herders

Did they send me daughters
 - misogyny

when I asked for sons
 - male privilege

You’re the saddest bunch I ever met
 - trivialising depression

But you can bet before we’re through
 - encouraging gambling

Mister I’ll make a man out of you
 - sexism, misogyny, transmisogyny, I literally can’t even

[mitigatedchaos]

MRAs should like Mulan over the other Disney movies, since it depicts masculinity in a more complete and nuanced way. Therefore, Mulan is Problematic.

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[afloweroutofstone]

What do you think the odds are of least one congressman in the next few years coming out and saying they think the Earth is flat and that NASA’s been lying to us? Realistically, 10, 12%?

[gunsandfireandshit]

Like, the head of an MRA reddit got outed as an elected rep, you’re acting like these people don’t already control NASA funding

[ranma-official]

Redpill, not MRA

[mitigatedchaos]

Remember when an article was published saying that “MRAs” were in a frothing rage over Mad Max: Fury Road, but actually it was RoK, a site that explicitly thinks MRAs are all losers?

At this point, I’m very close to thinking the misinformation is deliberate.

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[argumate]

the gay marriage will lead to polygamy slippery slope argument makes it sound like homophobes are more worried about a dude marrying two women than another dude.

[mitigatedchaos]

It isn’t obvious, Argumate, dear old boy? It’s trying to trade against the greater remaining taboo value of the second to stop the first. The ideological tools to pass the first will be used to try to allow the second, even though gay marriage is most likely pro-civic while polygamy is very likely anti-civic. (The civicness is not the argument being used, after all!)

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[argumate]

@fatpinocchio:

The idea is to show that men who enforce strict gender roles are failing on their own terms, which is hard to mistake for endorsement of those roles. It’s similar to how it’s not homophobic to make fun of the gay scandals of anti-gay politicians.

I disagree with this; for reference consider critique of anti-feminist women such as Phyllis Schlafly or Ann Coulter which focuses on shaming their appearance and casting aspersions at their sexuality; this might be ironically highlighting the difficulty of performing femininity to the degree that they themselves would advocate, but it’s still a fucked up approach with considerable collateral damage.

[mitigatedchaos]

Consider: Almost no one that doesn’t already agree will see this as “well we’re just pointing out how they ~ironically~ fail to live up to it”. They will see it as hypocrisy from a movement that they already know is full of hypocrites.

The whole “man tears” thing was similar, and similarly stupid.

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[argumate]

the posts that push back against men who enforce strict gender roles typically end up reinforcing those same roles by using them as weapons (”insecure in your masculinity, what are you, gay?”) and also by the implicit assumption that men are stronger and can take a rhetorical beating, whereas similar rhetoric aimed at the women who work to enforce strict gender roles would seem much less acceptable to the writer.

[mitigatedchaos]

Also they don’t even realize the irony, which shows how deeply drenched they are in male hyperagency.

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[profeminist]

READ THIS AWESOMENESS, YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT -Alamo Drafthouse Apologizes for Starting Manpocalypse With Women-Only Screening

[fandomsandfeminism]

I laughed so hard i cried

[littleladycorvus]

@thebibliosphere

[thebibliosphere]

The person writing this is 100% done and I love them.

[roguetelemetry]

Further proof the Alamo Drafthouse is the best.  They kick out anyone on cell phones during a movie no exception, show old movies, and serve beer.  

[mitigatedchaos]

There is no “manpocalypse”, it’s just that everyone knows this is hypocrisy and they’re tired of being lectured by hypocrites.

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[argumate]

People of Neurotypicality

[mitigatedchaos]

Neurotypical-Exclusive Radical Feminists (NERFs)

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[ranma-official]

I’m a male feminist, I own a “male tears” mug just to cry into it

[mitigatedchaos]

Well duh, they’re a crafting component.  It would be stupid to waste them.

[argumate]

buying a dozen “this is what a feminist looks like” t-shirts and forcibly putting them on men you pass on the street

[mitigatedchaos]

feminist alchemists ending every youtube video with “don’t forget to like and subscribe” because every like can be used in a Potion of Intersectionality +2