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them: I mean … look

them: 

them: it’s absurd … but i don’t know what to do about it

me: wow that really makes me think

me:

@ all the Americans reblogging this

…so you realise you’re probably in that demographic, right?

even people among the poorest of Americans are mostly among the 10% richest people worldwide

Fox News shocked that Harvard students think the US is a greater threat to world peace than ISIS. Students who don’t agree with Fox are ‘twisted’, elitist and wrong apparently. 

The Cambridge academic Robin Bunce said: “There is a fundamental danger of erasing the very notion of a struggle at all. I’ve been researching this for four and a half years and there have been so many occasions when people have said to me: ‘There was no black struggle in Britain. You’re thinking of South Africa or America.’“

The narrative that feeds it is the one that Britain is the utopia of fair play. We have such a commitment to individual rights, we have such a commitment to common sense and decency that there is no systematic racism in Britain.”…

5th richest person on the entire fucking planet wants you to give him more money

It’s easy to forget how disgustingly, perversely rich this man is. He could live in the most absurd, decadent luxury, never lifting a finger, until he turned 1000 years old without spending even a tenth, a twentieth, of the money he has now. He could buy a Tesla and drive it into the ocean, every day, for the next 100 years, without spending even a twentieth of his money.

Even 1 billion dollars is so much money that the human brain has troubles fully comprehending it, so much more money than any one, ten, twenty human beings would ever need in the span of a lifetime, even assuming a lifestyle more comfortable than that enjoyed by basically any other human throughout all of history. He has over 63.

And he wants you to donate to him?? TO HIM??? He could improve the lives of untold hundreds of millions of people if he just decided to give away some of his absurd riches. He could give away 95% of his money without it impacting the quality of his life in any measurable way. And he wants people to just give him more of it?

Mike Rowe has been advocating for blue collar workers for years. He has a foundation set up to help spread awareness and connect people with training programs, and he’s gone before Congress pleading the importance of these jobs.

Sesame Seeds

Cranberry

Pineapple

Peanut

Cashew

Pistachio

Brussel Sprouts

Cacao

Vanilla

Saffron

Kiwi

Pomegranate

“Warn”

Dr Stefan Robinson, of the University of Winchester, said the results were ‘significant and worrying’ for women and warned there is in emerging culture of sexism and disdain in the way Millennial men view the opposite sex.

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“There are however significant and worrying results here for women. These men perceived women to be the primary regulators of their behavior, and this caused disdain for them as a whole in some instances.“Much in the same way that women are portrayed in contemporary cinema as objects for male gratification several of the participants spoke of women they knew in a generally negative way.”

If there is a problem here, and the actual scientists seem to be focused on THIS part, it is that this is not actually being accompanied by an equal sense of women as humans, but rather a shift to a pattern that has actually been prevalent in patriarchal western culture in general, which is that women are for sex, and other men are for everything else, and as a result women are less than people. 

And that women are at fault for all regulation of toxic standards (see the guy who is fine with his buddy knowing he’s into TSwift and Beyonce, but keeps it from the women in his life Because Judgement). 

I also think there’s some issues of specific British “lad” culture, vs a lot of North American culture, in making these things play out in different ways. 

But a much better and more meaningful headline would be something like “Young Men Show Concerning Rise in Sexism When Increasingly Isolated From Women”. :P The problem seems to honestly be that young hetero or mostly hetero men are managing to avoid having to deal with girls for anything except sex, and as such are increasingly seeing them as ONLY for sex, and blaming all problems otherwise on them, rather than having any reason to figure out how to ameliorate relationships with them. 

Granted I am by no means convinced that this actually represents a change as such, so much as “social scientists happen to be studying this at the same time that young men are discovering that having intense interpersonal relationships with men is an option, instead of merely remaining totally emotionally isolated while searching for a perfect female emotional receptacle which they will then refer to with socially sanctioned disdain, ie ‘old ball and chain’.” But still. The headline is hideously misleading even if I think the study itself, while identifying a real problem, is also somewhat misguided in its perspective.