maol

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[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Ah yes, the Bloods and the Crips. Because those two gangs are well known for peacefully coexisting (?!?!?!?)

[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago

This is literally the same conversation therapy approach they use against gay people lol* the idea is that people believe they're gay because they are insecure about not being traditionally masculine or feminine enough (usually due to a bad relationship with their parents) and if they just learn how to be masc enough/fem enough then they'll be able to be heterosexual.

*kill me now

[–] maol@awful.systems 41 points 7 months ago

OH WOW WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago

Reminds me of this bloke's approach to teaching swimming.

[–] maol@awful.systems 9 points 7 months ago

Oh my gahhhhd. "Most child abuse is committed by family and friends, so why not commit some abuse against your child?"

[–] maol@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago

I started (but didn't finish) a degree in city planning, and we literally spent a lot of the first year learning about why planned cities are usually a bad idea. Siskind's a schmuck

[–] maol@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago

Ah, the idea that merely living in the same country as some rich people means that you yourself are rich.

[–] maol@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago

His glowing reference to the "aggro Scots Irish" reminded me that the "Scots Irish" are descended from Ulster Protestants, and that it wasn't fun being an Irish Catholic in Northern Ireland for much of the 20th century. Ian Paisley famously said that Catholics "breed like rabbits".

[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago

"If you zoom in on an upward trend, it looks smaller. I am very smart. A genius, even"

[–] maol@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago

Not sexist at all!

[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago

I guess he doesn't realize that everyone has a different idea of what music is interesting, and the big nightclubs have to go for the lowest common denominator in order to keep up sales.

[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago

commenter on Shtetl-Optimized talks about the rapey “nice guys” she suffered at college

Not just that, but one of very few feminist commenters in an aggressively anti-feminist comments section on a blogpost about how it's wrong that MIT pulled Walter Lewin's online lecture videos after he was accused of sexually harrassing a student. Scott Aaronson, Friend To All Women, felt no need to intervene as his fans trashed the very notion of online sexual harrassment - only when a woman made an uncharitable remark about nerd men.

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