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Dread Pirate Arbuthnot
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SUCK IT, MEN
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get out of here, man
I ask because vaccinations have historicially (and should continue to be for some time) the single most important factor in improving the status of women worldwide. The future gains are mostly to be expected outside the 1st world of course but if someone wanted to pick one issue which would make the biggest difference for the most women I can't think of anything more effective (or realisticially possible and cost effective) than universal vaccinations.
I haven't seen this discussion in the circles I inhabit but I'm sure it's out there.
But you don't have a cock for me to suck, so how is this supposed to work?
Also, wtf Microsoft? Windows 7 audio recorder only records in wma format and doesn't support wav anymore? O_o
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS
MALE DOMINATED
PHALLOCENTRIC
WOMEN OPPRESSING CULTURE
GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY [CHAT]
Ah, well I guess that teaspooning thing takes up an aweful lot of time and effort. Wouldn't want to stand in the way of the Glorious Work
HAVE SOME TAX CHAT
punches inc
Why do you automatically assume I was talking about a penis?
Sexist.
"I found it!"
i don't like this
i sense a trap
what's wrong
don't you want me to educate and explain things to you, altering your perceptions and viewpoints of the world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnZQNATOiU0
you're embarrassing me in front of my friends
It is too late. Embrace your new role amongst you newfound allies in the Great Patriarchal Conspiracy and make us a collective sandwich.
It is the only way
Mansplain harder, please.
ok, will do, arivia
It's better to mansplain smarter, not harder.
I would disagree, though of course both are important. First off because vaccinations are orders of magnitude cheaper and easier to provide in developing nations than ongoing education. But also they have shown to have some non-intuitive long term positive effects.
Obviously they save lives by preventing disease. Also there are the secondary effects of preventing disease. Many of the people who survive diseases like polio, pertussus, measles as children still have long term physical and mental developmental problems because of them. Preventing those developmental problems makes for a big difference among all the surviving population.
The bigger long term effect (and perhaps more relevant to this conversation) is that it has proven to be the case that (suprisingly quickly) the reduction in child mortality due to vaccinations leads to a substantial and voluntary reduction in the birth rate (without the need to apply any morally squicky means to force people to have fewer children). This is where the big gains in the status of women are to be had. Less emphasis on women as a baby-making automatons, more women in the workforce, the physical time and ability to even contemplate higher education etc...
Apparently what mansplaining actually specifically refers to is when a woman is talking to two men, and one of the guys has to translate what the woman is saying into man speak for the other to understand.
I think that's according to Pony, if I'm not mistaken.
nope, that wasn't what the original coining of the term was about
mansplaining, as a term, came about to describe the phenomenon where someone will listen to the same explanation more readily from a man vs. a woman
like, a woman tries to explain something to you, and you're like "pfft, i don't think so", but a man does it and you are like "oh, ok, i understand"
that's mansplaining.
it's a cultural/gender bias.
however like all feminist jargon it's become so detached from anything meaningful and is now just a way to dismiss anything a man says at any time, especially if it is to a woman.
I'm sorry give me a piece of feminist jargon that isn't over-used and detached from it's original meaning due to usage deviation and shit.