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Ilari wrote:
Dada wrote:
If there's some other way, like via an attribute given to the <video> element, then they could fix it, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist.
Width and Height attributes of <video> element? But I don't know if that works.
VideoWidth/VideoHeight is read-only.
You're right, I didn't read it properly. Judging by a more thorough reading, there's no real way to control the aspect ratio of the video. Changing width/height causes letter/pillarboxing.
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Well, if custom aspect ratios are only supported via video file header in html5, then it would be rather difficult for Youtube to fix it on their end. Although they could make sure that ratio flags are respected and copied over to their derivatives, I suppose, but that wouldn't completely fix the problem since what we're talking about here is the non-destructive tag that you can add to your videos.
If there's some other way, like via an attribute given to the <video> element, then they could fix it, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist.
edit: judging by the spec, they ought to be able to fix this by passing along videoWidth/videoHeight... http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html#video but I haven't tested this to make sure it works.
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Isn't html5 mode something you have to set in your Youtube account settings? At least this means most viewers won't have this problem.
I doubt custom aspect ratios are even supported in the html5 player in any other way than a video header. And I don't even know if that is supported. Perhaps this is something we'd have to test and possibly take up with the browsers' bugtrackers.
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The final version of the HD encode of this run can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7AC5604250FC29AB
Screenshot and description are being worked on now.
edit: since there's no screenshot yet, here's what I suggest based on the reactions from the page 2.
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Description suggestion:
This is the much-anticipated tool-assisted speedrun of the ninth installment in the Final Fantasy series (and the last to be made for the PSX). With its many references to the older games, it's a trip down memory lane for those familiar with the series.
A lot of route planning has gone into this run. Reading the author's comments is recommended. The encodes (both the MKV and on Youtube) also have explanatory subtitles to read along with. The famous Excalibur II quest, which requires the player to get to the end of the game in under 12 hours, is soundly beaten with more than 4 hours and 40 minutes of spare time.
Note: due to an emulation error, some areas have rather loud background sound effects (like Alexandria during Vivi's first appearance).
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Hey, where's the outrage about the mean things Swordless said to me?
[03:58am] Swordless: You're a preachy whiny feminist, go hug a tree, you vegetarian (I bet you really are one)
[04:01am] Swordless: You're whiny and a far leftist
Oh, right, it's only worth getting upset when a feminist says something mean.
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At the risk of being labeled "conceding defeat", I'm simply not going to reply to what I think is a lot of "I'm right, you're so very wrong" posturing and instead only look at the things that matter.
IronSlayer wrote:
Dada wrote:
And that might happen on occasion, but it proves nothing about the big picture. I can match every tweet that got someone fired with a rape joke that people laughed about and didn't do anything about. Does that mean they occur in equal numbers? Of course not, you need statistical evidence.
Okay, please provide said "statistical evidence".
I provided you a clear example of someone who got fired for a single Twitter joke about rape, while not even referencing women directly.
Yes, you provided me with one single data point. Given that you consider that to be valid evidence, I could now provide you with another tweet of someone making a rape joke who didn't make it to the news and didn't get fired.
My point is that linking to single data points is useless.
But more importantly, when someone makes a rape joke that doesn't land them into hot water, it's not news. Nobody particularly cares; it happens all the time. When someone does get fired, it's newsworthy. Does that mean the former never happens because it's harder to find newspaper articles about? Reality is more complicated than a few data points.
So I provided you with a minor counterexample: the Dickwolves comic. Again: investigate what really happened, and you'll find that the backlash was fairly limited and the vast majority of independent observers took their side, and in fact a great deal of harassement of the people who spoke out followed. There are tons of pictures of people wearing the t-shirt to show their solidarity.
There are tons of other examples in this post. Examples which you dismissed offhand, without examining them, because you don't like the blog on which they're posted.
IronSlayer wrote:
The link you quoted stated that there was no methodology, period.
It said it lacked a systematic methodology. That's different from saying it didn't have a methodology at all.
IronSlayer wrote:
Dada wrote:
The basic premise here is that it's in general very difficult to make a good methodology for deciding what a false accusation is, which is why the conclusions are all over the place.
So you disagree that a good methodology is only counting a report as fake if the women herself later admits it was a complete lie? I think that's a methodology extremely generous to the women claiming rape, actually.
Please enlighten us on what makes this a bad methodology?
They deferred to what the police decided to be a "false" report, and left it undefined. There was no scrutiny of the process used by the police to make this determination.
There's a very simple conclusion to draw: it wasn't a scientific study.
IronSlayer wrote:
Dada wrote:
One has a 1.5% minimum,
No, we have already gone over why this is inaccurate. The study in question stated the minimum was 1.5% false reports of rape and the maximum was 10%.
Exactly as I said: a 1.5% minimum. And yes, as you point out, the maximum was 10%.
And the study you quoted reached the number of 41%.
The numbers are all over the place. One even has 90%, based on the grandiose sample size of 18.
These studies are difficult to do right, it's hard to determine a good methodology, and they operate based on extremely small sample sizes.
IronSlayer wrote:
Uh...no, it isn't. You're redefining the term to suit your agenda, but no one in this entire topic has defined it as such. I don't see any posts mentioning a "right to be angry".
Actually, "friendzoning" is about being told you're "just a friend". That's true. But the reason why we're discussing this is because a lot of people can't accept that fact because they believe it's not right to be "just a friend".
Yeah, when you get down to the core definition, it's a pretty benign concept. Not in practice, however.
Remember that the world is bigger than this forum. If nobody here believes they're being mistreated by being friend zoned: great. But a lot of people do take that line.
IronSlayer wrote:
Dada wrote:
There are also people who think that "global warming" is a buzzword designed to elicit an emotional response, and virtually the entirety of the climate science academic world disagrees with them.
Also not true.
As an actual scientist who has taken climate science classes from some world-class experts on the subject, there is far from unanimous agreement on this, and that was before the whole leaked e-mail fiasco about data fudging. For instance, one fact that you probably don't know is that the ice cores they take to determine CO2 levels are taken from Greenland, not from Antarctica, because "they don't like the data" from the latter.
The fact you're even alluding to the so-called "climategate" faux scandal shows you don't know what you're talking about, in spite of your appeal to authority. Those emails didn't contain any information that wasn't already either known or published.
When you're trying to impose a gigantic scientific hoax on the world, I believe it's generally not a good idea to publish the specifics in a scientific paper.
Furthermore, when you look at polls taken among actual climate scientists, you'll find that there's virtual unequivocal support on the general notions of anthropogenic climate change. The amount of support for it is just overwhelming.
In the same way, when you look at social scientists who focus on gender studies, you'll find that concepts like the patriarchy and rape culture, which you dismissed as "buzzwords", are overwhelmingly accepted there too.
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IronSlayer wrote:
Dada wrote:
And that's one anecdotal example.
It's not "anecdotal". It's not something that happened to a personal friend of mine that I'm reporting second-hand. (The definition of the term)
It was a major news story that happened to a well-known fighter who has been described as nothing but a class act. And he got fired for making a rape joke on Twitter, one that never even referenced women specifically.
And that might happen on occasion, but it proves nothing about the big picture. I can match every tweet that got someone fired with a rape joke that people laughed about and didn't do anything about. Does that mean they occur in equal numbers? Of course not, you need statistical evidence.
IronSlayer wrote:
Dada wrote:
When you look at the big picture, you find that there's quite a great deal of support for rape jokes in general. A good case study was the Penny Arcade "Dickwolves" comic. The vast majority of responses to it was in support of Penny Arcade, not in opposition to the fact that they made a joke about rape. There are numerous other cases.
Incidentally, "Dickwolves" was about MEN being raped. By wolves with dicks on their hands. In a fantasy MMO setting.
Let's not bring this whole case into this, but the argument was that Dickwolves made fun of the concept of rape itself (regardless of to whom it happens; it's just as bad when it happens to men, which is also why feminists spoke out against it). Yes, it was nonsensical in the way that you mention, but that was the argument that was made: it made the concept of rape a joke, and people disagreed with that.
Actually, it was mostly about the response of Penny Arcade: they misrepresented what the critics were saying and then ridiculed the misrepresentation, and furthermore a group of their fans even started harassing the people who decided to speak out. It got pretty nasty, so nasty that they even had to take down the t-shirt they made (to try and capitalize on fans who believed the authors' free speech was "under attack") and publicly tell people to please stop harassing the feminists who made blog posts about their comic.
IronSlayer wrote:
I'm well aware of the criticism and have read all of it, considering I noted as much in the post you quoted.
Yes. I actually got that from your link. I don't see why this is such a big revelation? It's pretty clear, when you look at the Wikipedia article, that some complaints were made about the methodology of the study. Your argument seems to be "the study had a methodology, therefore complaints about its methodology were false".
The basic premise here is that it's in general very difficult to make a good methodology for deciding what a false accusation is, which is why the conclusions are all over the place. One has a 1.5% minimum, another is 41%. If you want to take those studies seriously, feel free to do so, but I'm not going to, and I doubt a lot of people will. Particularly if you read the article I linked to that attempts to explain the problems.
IronSlayer wrote:
Dada wrote:
By contrast, the criminal justice system has overreacted to infamous anecdotes of men falsely accused.
Care to provide any evidence for this, or is this just another invention/lie of the many you're so fond of repeating?
It's in the abstract of the article that I linked you to, which I advise you to read.
IronSlayer wrote:
Enterim started this whole idiocy by stating that a man inquiring on how to make a woman see him romantically instead of just as a Platonic friend is asking something "incredibly misogynistic".
Personally, I think you have to be brainwashed from an early age to feel this way, but I will give you a chance to explain the reasoning going on here.
Try not to ignore this either, and not answer by linking to a bunch of tangentially related feminist blog entries.
"Friend-zoning" is the concept that you're right to be angry when a woman says no to your sexual avances. That she's not "holding up her end of the bargain". Yes, I think there's something very wrong with that. Women aren't just things that you get sex from if you pay them the appropriate amount of attention.
There's a quote on this term. I don't know who first said this, but it goes like this:
"Girls are not slot machines that you insert friendship coins into until sex falls out."IronSlayer wrote:
Dada wrote:
You don't consider "misandrist" to be an MRA buzzword?
No. I don't consider "misogyny" to be a buzzword, either. But things like "rape culture" and "sexual negativism" are. Because they're poorly-defined, nebulous terms meant to evoke an emotional instead of an intellectual response.
And if you pick up any book by a respected theorist like for example bell hooks, you'll find that it's not controversial at all in the social sciences. It's not "nebulous", it's been discussed at length for decades long by numerous theorists.
There are also people who think that "global warming" is a buzzword designed to elicit an emotional response, and virtually the entirety of the climate science academic world disagrees with them.
IronSlayer wrote:
Now, it would be fine if you told people merely to educate themselves on the matter and read both sides, but you specifically tell them to only read YOUR LITERATURE that supports YOUR IDEAS, all while demonizing the opposing point of view. That's brain-washing and discrimination in its purest form.
The people who support MRA viewpoints can advocate that people read those instead of feminist theorists. I don't consider it my duty. If people want to read other things than the ones I think will give them a good insight into this topic, that's their choice, but I can't advocate for viewpoints that I don't support. Let the people who support those viewpoints do that.
Furthermore, telling people to read a book and make up their own minds has nothing to do with brainwashing, certainly nothing to do with discrimination.
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IronSlayer wrote:
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Actually, women don't report rapes because of the massive cultural suspicion that they probably are to blame for it themselves. That's why there's such a thing as the SlutWalk protests. And you should read this UK government report on the matter, it's very illuminating (it also notes that between 75% and 95% of rape cases go unreported). This is about a cultural bias towards the assailant's side of the story.
The other thing that you mentioned about how you can't even make jokes anymore is because sometimes jokes can offend people. You have to suspend judgment and use empathy when that happens. In reality, things like rape jokes are really quite commonplace and the backlash against it is really minor.
Bullshit.
The backlash is not at all minor; people, even in un-PC occupations like "mixed martial arts fighter", and even when not specifically making the joke about women, lose their jobs over rape jokes.
And that's one anecdotal example. When you look at the big picture, you find that there's quite a great deal of support for rape jokes in general. A good case study was the Penny Arcade "Dickwolves" comic. The vast majority of responses to it was in support of Penny Arcade, not in opposition to the fact that they made a joke about rape. There are numerous other cases.
IronSlayer wrote:
This study has been criticized for not having a good methodology, and not just by one person. Quote:
According to Lisak, Kanin's study lacked any kind of systematic methodology and did not independently define a false report, instead recording as false any report which the police department classified as false. The department classified reports as false which the complainant later said were false, but Lisak points out that Kanin's study did not scrutinize the police's processes or employ independent checkers to protect results from bias.
And other studies have found a number of 1.5%. Generally it's considered very difficult to make a good determination with any scientific accuracy. To quote that scientific paper I linked to:
In great pain, the rape victim tells of her assault to police, prosecutors, judges, and jurors, but no one believes her. They suspect either that she fabricated the experience because she wanted it or that she caused it by her own bad behavior.
[...]
By contrast, the criminal justice system has overreacted to infamous anecdotes of men falsely accused.
IronSlayer wrote:
What buzzwords did I use, exactly?
You don't consider "misandrist" to be an MRA buzzword? Furthermore, you didn't actually comment on any of the things mentioned in the blog entry, you just called it "brain-dead".
Dada wrote:
Typical feminist. Rather than making an intelligent argument yourself, you tell people to read feminist literature.
See, I can play this game too. Rather than making an intelligent argument about any of the arguments I've made so far, in addition to telling people to pick up a book because they might find it illuminating to read an actual feminist argument, you're telling people that educating themselves and making up their own mind is somehow "brainwashing" and "discrimination".
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IronSlayer wrote:
Dada and Enterim, throwing out shitty, intellectually dishonest buzzwords and phrases like "rape culture" and "sexual negativism", and linking to a brain-dead, extremely biased, and misandrist (hatred towards men) feminist blog isn't going to convince people of anything.
How aren't you doing the same thing, using buzzwords to accuse us of using buzzwords?
Furthermore, as I've stated before, when you actually start reading the theorists in the relevant fields of social science, terms like rape culture aren't controversial. They're virtually unequivocally supported by the people who have spent all their lives theorizing about this.
Then there are people like the men's rights activists (which the Southern Poverty Law Center added to their list of hate groups not too long ago) who claim that feminists are really misandrists whose only goal is to bring men down. You can believe those, or you can start reading real social theorists like bell hooks.
I very strongly recommend that the people reading this topic actually pick up a book by a respected author in the field of gender studies like bell hooks and read it and then make up their mind, based on a full understanding of the argument that feminism tries to make. Or if you don't have the time, read a few articles.
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moozooh wrote:
Please understand that when you're saying that a lot of rapes go unreported, it's often because the victims don't want this pity train, this mass hysteria ignited by people like you surrounding them. They want to go back to their normal life at all costs, without all of this stupid unwanted attention. The militant attitude, the generalizations, using your own assumptions as the basis for your claims—all of it has to go. It's not a way to solve problems, has never been.
Actually, women don't report rapes because of the massive cultural suspicion that they probably are to blame for it themselves. That's why there's such a thing as the SlutWalk protests. And you should read this UK government report on the matter, it's very illuminating (it also notes that between 75% and 95% of rape cases go unreported). This is about a cultural bias towards the assailant's side of the story.
The other thing that you mentioned about how you can't even make jokes anymore is because sometimes jokes can offend people. You have to suspend judgment and use empathy when that happens. In reality, things like rape jokes are really quite commonplace and the backlash against it is really minor.
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moozooh wrote:
Dada wrote:
But that was somehow construed as an attack on the male gender by me.
I don't want to bring in the gender debate, what I'm particularly unhappy with is your and Upthorn's attack on the community. Somehow the entirety of TASVideos is at fault. "This community sucks", "this community is the worst". The fuck?
To a great deal of the community, the issue of women's rights is more of a joke than a serious discussion. I'm not saying that to be mean, I'm saying that because I think it's true, particularly after this discussion.
It's not so strange that someone would get angry about that. Gender equality is a real issue, and the apathy towards it that some communities exhibit, including this one, is truly disgusting.
Edit: I'm asked on IRC to clarify that I don't mean the whole community. I do think this community expresses apathy towards the issue in general, but not everybody in it does. I hope to see more people taking the gender equality side of the argument in the future, then.
moozooh wrote:
If I don't subscribe to your particular ideology, it doesn't mean I have to be forcefully stuffed into a false dichotomy, thankyouverymuch.
I'm curious as to what you think my particular ideology is. It's not so controversial: the concept of equal rights, equal pay, and a society that doesn't have a cultural bias that disfavors women. That's what feminism is. You may not like calling yourself a feminist, but if you're for those things, then you might as well. I never said anything otherwise.
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I should note that a lot of those quotes are taken out of context. This was a discussion about feminism in which, for a while, I was practically the only one taking the position that gender equality is a good thing and that feminism is a struggle to achieve that.
Take this one for example:
<dada__> everything is about sex to Swordless. typical.
That was in response to Swordless telling me I'm only a feminist because I'm using it to elicit sex from women.
Or another one:
<dada__> I don't ignore men's rights, actually. neither does feminism.
I don't see why this is a "juicy quote". I'm concerned with the rights of both men and women, and so is feminism. As I've mentioned numerous times during that discussion as well.
I don't mean to start another discussion here in this topic, but if someone's gonna post out-of-context quotes by me as a way of saying "look at what a crazy guy this Dada is!" then I deserve an opportunity to say something in my defense.
Well, it's typical. If you say you're a feminist and then proceed to debate people about it, the natural response of people is to try and defame you as much as possible. So these are supposedly very damning quotes that show I'm a hypocrite when it comes to equality, even though I never said I don't support equality; I just said I think a lot of men don't really understand equality and have pretty ignorant views on it. And that, when this is pointed out, they tend to very, very easily get their feelings hurt. As evidenced by that post.
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To me, the most interesting thing here is that the discussion went pretty much as I expected it. For the most part, the very concept of gender equality is considered a joke around these parts, and that was the majority reaction on IRC when the subject was brought up.
It wasn't until I made a marginally offensive statement that all hell broke loose. And I don't find what I said to be too controversial. We know for a fact that there are a lot of men on the internet, and I'm not sure why anyone would disagree with me that a great deal of people on the internet are ignorant about a lot of things, particularly something so outrageous as basic concepts of feminism and gender equality struggles.
But that was somehow construed as an attack on the male gender by me. Suddenly, in an all too unsurprising reversal, the joke that is misogyny made place for the serious discussion that is misandry. Suddenly men were offended. Suddenly it was no longer a joke, but a matter of important principle. Suddenly the great moral imperative is to collectively dismiss me, defame me, distort my views and then laugh at the result.
And that just about reinforces my point. This isn't an attack on the male gender, but about cultural truisms. It's simply harder to understand women's struggles if you aren't a woman. Just as it's harder to understand racism if you aren't part of an oppressed race. It's nothing inherent, it's a matter of not having the same experiences as other demographics, and not having your worldview shaped in the same way. What I do find appalling, however, is the fact that nobody's even willing to give something like this a second thought.
Finally, as icing on the cake, we get a response from our own William F. Buckley, Warp. The same person who also believes Islamophobia is a hoax has come out of the woodworks not only to dismiss the patriarchy as propaganda (even though the evidence for it is overwhelming and unequivocally supported as very real by the social sciences), but also to redefine feminism. Not based on any evidence, mind you, but based on his personal reading of the term itself. In other words, forget about all of feminist theory and the tons of authors that have written on the topic and the nature of the movement itself; the term itself sounds like females and therefore it can't possibly be about gender equality, according to Warp.
I normally wouldn't even reply to this sort of lunacy, but I'm pretty sure the majority of people on this forum agree with him. To them I can only say that they should open up a book sometime.
moozooh wrote:
I put in conscious effort to be more aware of how my actions and attitudes might make anybody feel uncomfortable or unworthy, and try to avoid these actions. I understand if it doesn't make me as worthy a human being in your or Dada's book, but that's how I believe in equality. Not singling some people out and ignoring the rest.
Actually, I think it's great that you're putting in an effort to try and be more understanding of this issue. That's what I was hoping for. I'm certainly not about to attack you for that.
Bringing down the society-wide bias against women that still exists today can only be done if we're collectively ready to rethink these dogmas and put our own actions up for inspection.
What I don't get, however, is why you're so invested in helping bring me down. You've posted a bunch of quotes in the IRC topic, a lot of them without context. Like the one where I say "everything is about sex to Swordless", which was in direct response to him accusing me of only being a feminist in order to elicit sex. Do you think you're being honest by taking that quote out of context and posting it as if I'm the bad guy here?
This is the typical response of a typical male-dominated forum: complete apathy about a really important issue, namely, women's rights and the struggle for equality, and complete hysteria about a minor issue such as a guy like me making some marginally offensive statements about the men of this forum.
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rog wrote:
This is not a particular topic that I'm interested in, so I don't know.
Of fucking course you don't.
Oh, so because I don't happen to have a link to something that *you* care about, you've suddenly debunked the notion of me being in favor of gender equality because I don't care about men enough?
See, this is what I mean. A lot of people simply don't know about basic concepts of equality and will proceed to defame anyone who so much as dares to make the claim they're feminist.
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rog wrote:
[13:05:17] <rog> you must also consider areas where women are treated better than men
[13:05:34] <rog> you CANNOT ignore men's rights, just because they have it much better than women
[13:05:46] <dada__> I don't ignore men's rights, actually. neither does feminism.
[13:06:29] <rog> cool. where can i find some feminists arguing against women getting custody of their children far, far more often than men?
Leaving this here, so dada doesn't forget about it.
This is not a particular topic that I'm interested in, so I don't know. I'm pretty sure this has been discussed. Do some research on your own, I'm not going to do it for you.
But the point is that there's nothing in feminism that says "men's rights are off the table". It says "we need gender equality, and in order to achieve that we need to increase the rights of women, because they currently don't have as many as men".
So if you believe this is an important topic, then become a feminist and start trying to set the agenda to make a point of this.
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Blacklisting people because they think differently from you?
Real mature.
I'm not blacklisting anyone. All I did was mention names. That doesn't have any consequences.
I'd do the same if I had a list of racists. Nothing immature about that. This is a serious topic.
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TASVideos is, like many places on the internet, an extremely misogynistic place.
[6:44pm] You were kicked from the chat room by agill. (sorry I'm on my period)
A tentative list of actual misogynists is Swordless, rog, Johannes` and agill.
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Unfortunately, there's plenty of it in Western Europe too. Not as bad as in the US, where even things like abortions are extremely difficult to get, and even things like basic women's reproductive healthcare is under a rather serious attack. But it's still a problem here as well.
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Those who don't understand what female oppression is should do some reading up on the subject. This is one subject that people generally have very little knowledge about. But the basic gist of it is this: women are still held back to an extremely high degree in numerous ways, and it's due to a very deep society-wide bias in favor of men. Furthermore, this is unequivocally supported by the relevant social sciences.
A good site to read and start frequenting is http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/
Everyone should be a feminist. Not just women. If you're a man and have a girlfriend or wife, and you're not a feminist, you have some explaining to do as to why you don't support gender equality, which is precisely what feminism is about.
edit: btw, I fully expect this post to be responded to with ridicule or accusations of hysteria, et cetera. People typically have a very hard time accepting any of this, or feel it's a personal attack. It takes some time and some open-mindedness to break through the background noise of lifelong dogma, but it's worth giving it a shot.
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Enterim wrote:
What you are thinking of would more likely be termed "misandry" and is entirely separate from feminism. Institutionalized misandry does not exist, however, so please don't delude yourself into thinking that a straight white cismale is being oppressed. It's pathetic and embarrassing.
Exactly. The men who claim they're being oppressed, also known as "men's rights activists", are completely deluded. And feminism is, as you pointed out, about gender equality--nothing more and nothing less. I'm a feminist too.
Johannes wrote:
Enterim, sorry, but I really can't tell: Are you serious?
Everything he said is completely uncontroversial. And furthermore, it's correct.
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deuxhero wrote:
One question: Would the speed this TAS takes be quick enough to reach Excalibur II in the PAL version? The time to beat to get to Excalibur 2 is a lot faster in the PAL version because of some glitch or other regarding regional differences, and as a result, getting Excalibur 2 in the PAL version is thought to be impossible without skipping FMVs.
I don't know the exact time, but I think Excalibur II is obtained at around 7:18. So let's be conservative and say 7:30. The difference you're talking about is probably between 50fps and 60fps with the timer still running at the correct speed, so that would mean in PAL time he'd reach the sword after around 9 hours. That's well within the time limit of 12 hours.
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natt wrote:
Currently shoving a 26.4 GiB mess down youtube's throat. (I don't believe the twenty giggerbites limit!)
I've already done the HD encode for FF9.
If the Youtube file size limit doesn't really exist, I'd prefer it if I could instead upload my own complete HD encode that also surpasses the 20GB limit.
Joined: 11/22/2004
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Lil_gecko, could you contact me via PM? I think we're pretty much ready to publish (edit: from a technical viewpoint; judging isn't complete yet), aside from some minor housekeeping issues, so if we could finish the commentary one of these days, that would be grand.
But don't worry, there's no hurry of course. We can do it anytime. I've got plenty of time this week.
Joined: 11/22/2004
Posts: 1468
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Since I didn't see this April Fools joke itself, I can't really comment on it. But I'd like to note that we ought to give weight to the opinions of the people who were offended by this. Those that didn't mind the joke: great, but you don't really get to say that just because you personally weren't offended, other people shouldn't be. Certainly saying that "people who were offended are dumb" is pretty absurd and juvenile.
It's a good thing there was an apology, and hopefully those that didn't like the joke can feel comfortable accepting it.
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