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[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fair enough, but I'd make a few objections,

I don't think an imbalance necessarily means that we should automatically assume discrimination, for example there is a small correlation between sex and interest (men to objects, women to living things) which may account for some discrepancy in certain fields.

Hiring committees would depend but very often we see HR is majority female, and some studies show that female named job applications in certain cases may be more favoured even when the exact same application is given with a male name.

In terms of school, I can attest that boys need to stop fucking around during class time and actually pay attention, but I've seen another study show that for the exact same work, public school teachers sometimes mark higher for a girls work.

The last point I would make is that there are quite a few female only grants and bursaries and aid programs, but there's very few that outright exist for males.

That's my two cents, but I understand your perspective as well.

I think Warren Farrell especially, and a bit of Leonard Sax as well have gone into this in more detail.

Unfortunately the mainstream feminist objection is that "men should just make their own support organizations" but the problem is sometimes the government won't give them a nickel, which I find absurd.

This guy in Calgary Canada made a men's domestic violence shelter, (shockingly women are first statistically to initiate domestic violence, which I didn't know). This was around 2011 or so? But the local feminists at the time online were saying that he should not feel entitled to government funding and only women's shelters should get government funding. I think he killed himself afterwards.

So it seems like when men do band together to make a support group, it doesn't get the same amount of government support as a women's group will.

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

That's good but there needs to be more, way more. We need to start mass rezoning.

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But rail infrastructure isn't that good yet in north America.

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Canada's real Queen is dead, lady! Get out!

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I heard of this thing called microtransit, that might work?

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago
[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We regulate cars pretty heavily, we regulate guns decently.

When it comes to dogs, across the entire world, literally crickets chirping. No government does anything.

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok I think it's fixed

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Agreed, this gets frustrating sometimes because it's so common in a lot of articles talking about this issue.

 

With this heatwave ive been dreaming about a cool winter mornings

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