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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We need to get off fossil fuels ASAP, we also should probably wean away from car centricity, it's making us dependent on these oil cartels. They have an oligopoly and they can just yank the prices up if they want and screw over everybody else.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok I think it's fixed

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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

 

I'm really into traditional architecture and pre-automobile urban planning. Unfortunately there isn't a lot of that in North America. I know there are a few, I was wondering if Ontario specifically has any nice villages that fit this description? Preferably not abandoned ones, i am looking for ones still inhabited.

 

With this heatwave ive been dreaming about a cool winter mornings

 

Hi everyone,

As this community gets going, we will need moderators with experience in the legal world. If you want to help out, let me know.

 

Hi everyone,

As this community gets going, we will need moderators with experience in the legal world. If you want to help out, let me know.

 

Hi everyone,

As this community gets going, we will need moderators with experience in the legal world. If you want to help out, let me know.

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