ObjectivityIncarnate

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  • Why are you proposing scenarios other than the ones I used to specifically exemplify the fact that the measure of sexual assault/rape was massively overinflated?

    Do you think “but what about the situations that are rape” is a counterargument to that? My point is that they counted a lot MORE in ADDITION to those legitimate scenarios, and that’s why such a scary number was arrived at.

    The bottom line fact is, no survey etc. that doesn’t massively dilute the definitions of those terms has ever or will ever reach a conclusion like “1 in 5 female college students have been sexually assaulted or raped”. There is a reason that figure isn’t being thrown around anymore these days–it’s been debunked thoroughly.


  • In my college there was a flyer in the restroom about how something like 1 in 6 women will experience sexual assault or rape.

    And that was shown to be complete horseshit arrived at by defining ‘sexual assault or rape’ in a survey more broadly than any reasonable person ever would.

    It’s similar to the survey in the 80s all the ACABers cite to claim 40% of cops are domestically violence–in that survey, even if a voice was raised one time in the past six months, and it was the cop’s spouse yelling at the cop, that survey dumped the relationship in the domestic violence bucket. Big surprise that 40% figure has never been replicated since, lol.

    One example: at the end of a first date that you weren’t really feeling, the guy goes in for a kiss and you decline? Guess what, even if he completely accepts the denial and the date ends without incident, that went in the “sexual assault” bucket, regardless of whether the woman herself felt anything bad had happened.

    Ever had sex while less than stone cold sober (keep in mind the entirety of the surveyed considered to arrive at this figure were college students)? Survey says you were raped. Doesn’t matter if you were just tipsy, doesn’t matter if you and your partner were equally drunk, doesn’t matter whether you think you were raped/assaulted, nope, we decided you were.

    Stuff like that is the only way to get to a figure so absurd.






  • Women can’t be president in America. We have a shitty culture that prevents that from happening. We keep trying, we keep failing.

    Tried twice with two exceptionally shitty candidates. Blaming Hillary and Harris’s losses on their sex is a massive cop-out. Trump should have been destroyed in every election he ran in, but the only time he lost was with the weight of a worldwide pandemic working against him, and even then, he wasn’t exactly blown out of the water.

    A woman can definitely be president in America. But as long as people like you blame the losses on that, the actual reasons these candidates are losing will never be fixed.

    It’s time to take some accountability.


  • That’s not relevant.

    Whether you don’t pay your debts by choice or not, the fact remains that not paying them demonstrates that you are risky to lend to. It makes perfect sense for people to not want to lend you more money if you didn’t pay back what you borrowed before.

    Downvote all you like, but that’s the fact of the matter. Getting rid of credit scores will change nothing for people who don’t repay their debts, but it will harm those who do, because good borrowers won’t be able to prove that they have a history of repaying their debts, and will therefore be treated as greater risks than they actually are.


  • Every time I see someone complaining about Babylon Bee and I go take a peek at their front page, I find several funny headlines–pretty sure the criticism is way overblown, and it’s just another silly parody news website.

    On their front page right now:

    • Apple Warns China Tariffs Could Negatively Impact Child Slave Employment Opportunities
    • Get A Load Of This White-Knighting SIMP Saving A Princess From A Dragon
    • Texas Bans Sale Of Assault Rifles With Capacity Of Less Than 30 Rounds
    • Republicans Vow To Get Really Serious About Cutting Spending In Like 20 Or 30 Years



  • I can understand not everyone wants to be an educator, especially of more ignorant people but when people say this I do wonder why they are even talking.

    Exactly. If you’re not willing to try and educate someone you disagree with, insulting them is no substitute (in fact it’s pretty much the worst course of action re the presumed desired result), just keep quiet, or alternatively go talk to others who already agree with you so you can stroke each other’s egos, lol.


  • You said something stupid, and it was identified as such. That’s not being offended.

    Though the fact that you had to assume several things about me personally to rationalize the way you behave, as your ego is apparently just too fragile to conceive of the possibility that YTA, says a lot, and makes me wonder if you’re available in IMAX.


  • What’s your source on that? Your arse?

    Good luck finding a single source in any country that has females being on the receiving end of violence more often than males per capita, overall.

    I think you’re an incel who hates women and doesn’t care about violence against them.

    That’s because you’re enough of a fool to think caring about male suffering is misogynistic. All I did was point out your deliberate blindness to the suffering of half of humanity, by describing the half that is assaulted and killed less, as the half with the ‘epidemic’ of violence against them.

    It’s like when the reaction to 11% of journalists killed the year before being women is to say “stop targeting female journalists”. You’re so deeply sexist that the 89% who are male don’t even land on your radar.