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11-16-2023 , 05:09 PM
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Originally Posted by chillrob
I actually go to yoga classes, but they seem to not be good for connecting, I feel bad interrupting the relaxing new age music.
I'm not sure if these are unisex yoga classes or what (I'm sure that if they aren't, we can discuss the injustice of this in the other thread), but at the tender age of 41, I feel that going to yoga would either leave all my worst physical traits on display, or, if my best physical traits were on display, get me arrested.
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11-16-2023 , 05:11 PM
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Originally Posted by chillrob
Something needs to be done about this blatant discrimination! Those of us with unpleasant personalities are just as deserving of love and respect. Screw all you ignorant Pollyannas who disagree.
I have a terrible terrible personality by most peoples standards. The key is to dress nice. The worse your personality is the more important this becomes.
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11-16-2023 , 05:47 PM
Women are treated unjustly. And so are men.


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11-16-2023 , 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by PointlessWords
Women are treated unjustly. And so are men.


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Stipulating to the premise that "justice for all" is not a zero sum game, how, and actually more importantly, who do you propose remedies this situation?
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11-16-2023 , 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by d2_e4
Stipulating to the premise that "justice for all" is not a zero sum game, how, and actually more importantly, who do you propose remedies this situation?
Groups of women. Some grandmas, some young adults
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11-16-2023 , 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
Indeed.


Not in dispute.


And here's the entire first paragraph, including the part you conveniently left off.




After going down this road with jbouton a few times, who also loves to use odd definitions and then argue about them, I'm not going to waste a lot of time with you on this. I'll just say that if you're going to take one element of sexual equality (feminism), and try to use it as an all-encompassing term for sexual equality, you're just going to confuse people and/or derail conversations with arguments about it.

Nah those things are not apart of what I was quoting.


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11-16-2023 , 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
Indeed.


Not in dispute.


And here's the entire first paragraph, including the part you conveniently left off.




After going down this road with jbouton a few times, who also loves to use odd definitions and then argue about them, I'm not going to waste a lot of time with you on this. I'll just say that if you're going to take one element of sexual equality (feminism), and try to use it as an all-encompassing term for sexual equality, you're just going to confuse people and/or derail conversations with arguments about it.
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11-16-2023 , 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by PointlessWords
Nah those things are not apart of what I was quoting.
Oh, it's Britannica you want to cite now? Well, I'll give you the remainder of the first paragraph of that as well.

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Feminism, the belief in social, economic, and political equality of the sexes. Although largely originating in the West, feminism is manifested worldwide and is represented by various institutions committed to activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests.
But if you want to continue to derail your own thread by arguing about your special definition of words rather than just using a different term that everyone would understand, go for it I guess?
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11-16-2023 , 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by d2_e4
I'm not sure if these are unisex yoga classes or what (I'm sure that if they aren't, we can discuss the injustice of this in the other thread), but at the tender age of 41, I feel that going to yoga would either leave all my worst physical traits on display, or, if my best physical traits were on display, get me arrested.
You been to a gym recently? Middle aged people aren’t exactly out of place in a yoga class at most McGyms.
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11-16-2023 , 06:24 PM
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Originally Posted by spaceman Bryce
I have a terrible terrible personality by most peoples standards.
Well, this is just plainly false. You are one of the most pleasant people on all of 2p2. Why you gotta lie?
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11-16-2023 , 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
You been to a gym recently?
Does 1998 count as "recently"?
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11-16-2023 , 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by PointlessWords
Groups of women. Some grandmas, some young adults
Ok, and how do they remedy it?
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11-16-2023 , 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
Middle aged people aren’t exactly out of place in a yoga class at most McGyms.
"Middle aged" implies I might make 82, which is, at best, highly optimistic. But I get your general direction with this.
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11-16-2023 , 06:57 PM
If you quit smoking by 40, they say you can completely reverse the hit to your life expectancy from earlier smoking. 41 is close enough.

I'm sure they'll just grow new livers in a lab at some point in the next decade or two, so maybe there's hope on the alcohol front as well.

Never give up, never surrender.
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11-16-2023 , 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Inso0
If you quit smoking by 40, they say you can completely reverse the hit to your life expectancy from earlier smoking. 41 is close enough.

I'm sure they'll just grow new livers in a lab at some point in the next decade or two, so maybe there's hope on the alcohol front as well.

Never give up, never surrender.
It's puzzling to me that you think increasing my life expectancy is something I am actively looking to do. Explain.
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11-16-2023 , 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by PointlessWords
Women are treated unjustly. And so are men.


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No.
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11-17-2023 , 01:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
Oh, it's Britannica you want to cite now? Well, I'll give you the remainder of the first paragraph of that as well.


But if you want to continue to derail your own thread by arguing about your special definition of words rather than just using a different term that everyone would understand, go for it I guess?
Lmao. Wait until you see how they define genocide
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11-17-2023 , 02:12 AM
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Originally Posted by ganstaman
I'm under 5'5" but I get to mod this forum, so ...?
well I definitely take back any words of support for your modship!
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11-17-2023 , 02:20 AM
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Originally Posted by uke_master
well I definitely take back any words of support for your modship!
Listen, I am locking you in the basement until you can explain to me which branch cut of the W function gives me the k-th prime number, to within 10%.
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11-17-2023 , 02:22 AM
I've got as far as "1 is unit, 2 is prime,. 3 is prime, 4 is experimental error, 5 is prime"
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11-17-2023 , 02:28 AM
Also, I think that we should not forget our fallen brothers, like Cuepee, who thought that studying mathematics involved remembering many digits of pi and also the formulas for thea are of a square and a rectangle. He was very sad when I told him that a square is a rectangle.
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11-17-2023 , 02:45 AM
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Originally Posted by d2_e4
a square is a rectangle.
prove it
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11-17-2023 , 03:07 AM
in all seriousness, i get where op is coming from in the sense that there's a lot of areas where men need to tread very carefully where women do not

i once had a female boss - we got along super well, we hung out a ton after work a lot and just naturally vibed well

she would drunkenly text me that she loved me and that i needed to be with her and if i wasn't then it would be too painful for her to work at the same place as me so i either had to be with her or she'd find a way to get me fired

i thought it was a bluff, even directly told her, there's no way you can do that without destroying your own career because you've text me all the evidence

she still did it, i showed hr the texts, they thought they were a nothing burger so i leave hr's office and show the ceo who takes it more seriously



the company still viewed me as the bigger villain since i was a male and she was a female and thus I must have played a villainous role in all of his so they fired both of us - i can't for the life of me see any world where had i tried to fire a female for not wanting to be my side piece that she would still get fired anyway even after my scheme was revealed
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11-17-2023 , 04:54 AM
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Originally Posted by rickroll
in all seriousness, i get where op is coming from in the sense that there's a lot of areas where men need to tread very carefully where women do not

i once had a female boss - we got along super well, we hung out a ton after work a lot and just naturally vibed well

she would drunkenly text me that she loved me and that i needed to be with her and if i wasn't then it would be too painful for her to work at the same place as me so i either had to be with her or she'd find a way to get me fired

i thought it was a bluff, even directly told her, there's no way you can do that without destroying your own career because you've text me all the evidence

she still did it, i showed hr the texts, they thought they were a nothing burger so i leave hr's office and show the ceo who takes it more seriously



the company still viewed me as the bigger villain since i was a male and she was a female and thus I must have played a villainous role in all of his so they fired both of us - i can't for the life of me see any world where had i tried to fire a female for not wanting to be my side piece that she would still get fired anyway even after my scheme was revealed
Pretty sure you could have won a large settlement from a lawsuit if you're not leaving out anything important here.
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11-17-2023 , 06:10 AM
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Originally Posted by rickroll
prove it
Take a rectangle with side length 1 and diagonal of root(2). Take a square with the same dimensions. Their areas are both 1. QED
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