Did you find a fake social media post and can prove it? Suspicious of a news report that sounds a little too manufactured? Here's a place to stick your head into, instead of the sand.
lurkerhasarisen
about a week ago It's Fake!
The "Bike Karen" story looks more and more like a case of mutual misunderstanding (each thought the other was trying to steal the bike), but what I find much more interesting are the reactions to the story, which seem to vary depending on whether the person reacting is an anti-white racist or an anti-male sexist. The inspins and harpies at TwoXChromosomes seem split on it, which is hilarious. The "Establishment" TradCons are just infuriating:
The writer downplayed her affected histrionics and noted that the woman was pregnant NINE TIMES (although her condition is 100% voluntary and completely irrelevant) and absurdly suggested this:
Ideally, the men at the bike station should have acted chivalrously and assisted the pregnant woman on her journey home...
Yeah... because a white guy squaring off with five young black dudes over a bicycle is likely to end well... /sarc
Meanwhile, the usual suspects on the left are pretending that a white woman being accosted by five young black men trying to take a $1200 bike that she had just paid for had no reason to feel physically threatened. Yet those same people use words like "unsafe" and "danger" to describe a 12-year-old wearing a shirt that says, "There Are Only Two Genders."
So based on what the current state of our knowledge, it appears that everything about this story is fake, from the allegations of white supremacy to the allegations of misogyny to the feigned outrage on all sides.
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SSeuSS
about a month ago It's Fake!
@Lone_Ranger interesting story relating, came across this website by chance, so might be as well blue
sciencehistory.org/distillations/podcast/love-hate-and-sex-from-the-history-of-science
We begin our story in France, in December of 1771. Madame Lavoisier isn’t Madame Lavoisier yet. She’s Marie-Anne, the 13 year-old daughter of Jacques and Claudine. But she is about to get married to Antoine Lavoisier, who at 28, is 15 years her senior.
Her other option was to marry a 50 year old man. You see her father, Jacques, was a tax collector.
And he worked at the whim of some powerful people. When Marie turned thirteen, she got a marriage proposal from a well-connected count. Marie’s father couldn’t outright object, so he got one of his colleagues to ask for Marie’s hand in marriage instead.
For one thing, the financial security provided by
combining their family’s finances allowed him to build a state-of-the-art laboratory. So by the time Lavoisier does incredible things like discovering the role oxygen plays in combustion and naming hydrogen, his wife, Marie, is right by his side. She translated works for him and included her own notes on interpretation. She was also an accomplished artist who did detailed renderings of their equipment and lab which is how we know so much about the set-up. She received formal training in the field from Lavoisier’s colleagues and hosted gatherings where scientists came together and discussed ideas.
After his death, Marie-Ann Lavoisier spent 65 days in prison herself. She was thrown into bankruptcy. And the government seized all of their laboratory equipment and their notebooks. Also, her father went to the guillotine too. None of this stopped her from doing everything she could to protect her husband’s reputation as a chemist, and protect the legacy of their work. She managed to get
Antoine’s final memoirs published
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Lone_Ranger
about a month ago It's Fake!
@woodsmoke true. Women did very well under the patriarchy. Someone else on this forum made the very valid point that the Patriarchy is simply another word for 'civilisation'. Without it, its anarchy and the law of the jungle. What we have ended up with is a weird fucked up compromise, in which we have gotten rid of the patriarchy and now enabled women to do whatever without consequence. I call it The Femocracy. It means that we have moved way beyond equality and over towards out right discrimination and persecution of men, especially straight white men. There are plenty of examples of the persecution of men, the most blatant is divorce law.
MentORPHEUS
about a month ago It's Fake!
Being treated like trash is what excites them.
Decades before TRP existed, my fellow "nice guy" friend and I puzzled long and hard over this as we struggled to get dates at all while watching openly rude and even abusive guys enjoy seemingly limitless female attention.
Whenever the Elvis song Treat me nice played over the shop PA, we'd sing along:
"If you want my love then take my advice/ Treat me like scheiss!"
woodsmoke
about a month ago It's Fake!
And once again I find myself coming back to the conclusion the best possible outcome for women is The Patriarchy™. Not because they're necessarily too stupid to know what's good for them - there are plenty of stupid men, too (more, in fact, given general statistical variation between the sexes) but because they generally lack the discipline necessary to make a habit of it, because discipline results in predictable outcomes, making it unsexy and boring.
Lone_Ranger
about a month ago It's Fake!
@Typo-MAGAshiv sure, I'm not disagreeing with you. It's just that they want excitement and feels above all else. Which is why so many of them end up alone.