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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd June 2015, 09:52 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,854
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
It depends, it's a disorder that presents in many...

It depends, it's a disorder that presents in many different ways. The best case scenario is you get a child who is of average or even slightly above average intelligence, with coordination problems...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd June 2015, 08:20 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,854
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
I don't disagree with you, but you need to be...

I don't disagree with you, but you need to be careful with your terms. Moss is an instance of life, and it's not sentient, so trying to argue that nothing is alive unless it is sentient is going to...
Forum: USA Politics 15th June 2015, 04:37 AM
Replies: 2,704
Views: 325,321
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
By "market level" do you mean the level that...

By "market level" do you mean the level that would be found in a perfectly efficient economy with perfect competition, perfect information, no barriers to entry or exit from a job and so on? Or the...
Forum: USA Politics 15th June 2015, 03:18 AM
Replies: 2,704
Views: 325,321
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
Firms are in a position to hold out for an...

Firms are in a position to hold out for an inequitable deal on labour in a market with perpetual unemployment, though, aren't they?

You're trying to conjure up a false contradiction out of the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 15th June 2015, 03:01 AM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
As I have said already this seems to me to be an...

As I have said already this seems to me to be an explanation, not a justification. Whether culture or genetics makes women so inclined, if the net result is that they end up with less income and...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 14th June 2015, 10:46 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
Can you unpack the reasoning behind that question...

Can you unpack the reasoning behind that question a bit for us? It seems a bit like asking "Do white people in the ghetto have fancier houses than the black people?". I can't see why you would ask...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 14th June 2015, 09:41 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
To begin with it seems like you haven't read much...

To begin with it seems like you haven't read much about the topic if you think that alone explains the gap in income and wealth between men and women, because it simply doesn't.

Even as far as it...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 14th June 2015, 05:37 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
Let's recap. I said "I take it as a baseline that...

Let's recap. I said "I take it as a baseline that your biological sex should not affect your probable access to society's wealth, because it's not your choice or your fault what sex you are at...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 14th June 2015, 05:20 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
For someone who just moaned up a storm about how...

For someone who just moaned up a storm about how you are terribly misunderstood and every criticism of your position is a straw man, it's amazing how quickly you jumped to posting this outrageous...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 14th June 2015, 08:40 AM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
Yup. Dog ate it. It's all too much, I don't have...

Yup. Dog ate it. It's all too much, I don't have the spoons. I'll be back to prove that men deserve to have more wealth and more income because they have penises real soon now, real soon. Or maybe...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 14th June 2015, 02:40 AM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
I would say that the link is that the organised...

I would say that the link is that the organised atheist community overlaps very substantially with the skeptical community, and the skeptical community has real problems with overlap with climate...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 14th June 2015, 12:29 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 3,898
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
I haven't followed Reddit that long or that...

I haven't followed Reddit that long or that closely, but from what I've seen they pay lip service to free speech as a shield against criticism, then ban people and groups that bring them too much bad...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 14th June 2015, 12:11 AM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
This response is mostly nonsensical and...

This response is mostly nonsensical and unnecessarily combative. If you're a free-market fundamentalist and don't believe it's ever practical or ethical to redress inequalities caused by free...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th June 2015, 06:19 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
It seems like it would save a lot of time....

It seems like it would save a lot of time. Instead of cataloguing one hundred rocks of all different colours then figuring out we only want the red ones, figure out you are just looking for red ones...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th June 2015, 05:07 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
When inconvenient MRA talking points get brought...

When inconvenient MRA talking points get brought up, they're a lie. To Edx, anyway. I've got a published book on my shelf, Men On Strike by Helen Smith, which consists almost entirely of the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th June 2015, 03:13 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
I guess in some fantasy world where a magic man...

I guess in some fantasy world where a magic man on a mountain controlled every aspect of society by turning dials this complaint would make sense. "Oh no, he's turned the women in Arts dial to 51%...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th June 2015, 06:16 AM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
Are people seriously still running with this? You...

Are people seriously still running with this? You seriously expect us to buy the story that there is no reason to think that a person is a sexist or a misogynist just because they call all members of...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th June 2015, 01:26 AM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
My view is that it would be much better to first...

My view is that it would be much better to first agree on what would or would not constitute a just reason for women to be paid less (or more), and then see if any if the real reasons met that test....
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th June 2015, 11:35 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
I think that discussion of causes all too often...

I think that discussion of causes all too often turns into a distraction from the fundamental ethical issue of genuine equality.

For example, some people say "it turns out women are less likely to...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th June 2015, 09:21 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
We've had a twenty-eight page thread on this...

We've had a twenty-eight page thread on this topic already. Here (http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=9843025&postcount=616) and here...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th June 2015, 05:09 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
This false equivalence keeps coming up, doesn't...

This false equivalence keeps coming up, doesn't it? Feminism is an extraordinarily diverse movement with over two centuries of history, and virtually everyone in the developed world is some kind of...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th June 2015, 04:25 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
I'm guessing that Edx's knowledge of feminism...

I'm guessing that Edx's knowledge of feminism comes pretty much exclusively from MRA sites, because the only feminists he ever mentions are Sommers, Straus (who is a sociologist) and the nebulous and...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th June 2015, 04:02 PM
Replies: 3,335
Views: 412,183
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
Swastikas and hatred for obese people everywhere?...

Swastikas and hatred for obese people everywhere? They seem to have got it back under control, but it was pretty crazy for a while there. My guess is the #gamergate perspective will be "it was...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th June 2015, 03:19 PM
Replies: 3,335
Views: 412,183
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
I'm all for ending the attempts to equivocate...

I'm all for ending the attempts to equivocate between gamergate-strictly-just-the-hashtag, and gamergate the movement which even pro-GG sources agree began with the Quinnspiracy posts (before the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th June 2015, 03:13 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
From my perspective, Edx has it backwards. I...

From my perspective, Edx has it backwards. I don't think feelings are facts. Edx dismisses inconvenient facts and inconvenient ethical judgments as "feelings" because he stereotypes everyone who...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th June 2015, 05:28 AM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
This narrative seems to have journalists as...

This narrative seems to have journalists as mindless puppets, compelled to bleat out questions in some kind of direct cause/effect relationship with actors' actions.

I thought the point of the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 11th June 2015, 08:43 PM
Replies: 3,335
Views: 412,183
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
Sadly, the vast majority death threats, rape...

Sadly, the vast majority death threats, rape threats, doxxing, threatening phone calls and support for child molestation were not about corruption in journalism.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 11th June 2015, 06:05 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
Isn't this plain and simple cherry-picking? The...

Isn't this plain and simple cherry-picking? The "manspreading" business went off the rails, as many memes do, when idiots or trolls started attacking people who were harmlessly relaxing instead of...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 11th June 2015, 04:55 PM
Replies: 163
Views: 15,548
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
If I have parsed you correctly, you are just...

If I have parsed you correctly, you are just doing the exact same thing again. You are presenting a case where there is no peer-reviewed source and claiming it as an exception to the rule that you...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 11th June 2015, 04:35 PM
Replies: 3,335
Views: 412,183
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
Isn't it a bit much to call the actual history...

Isn't it a bit much to call the actual history with sources on wikipedia and rationalwiki the "alternative history", thus implying that the mythologised version where a horde of 4chan misogynists...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 11th June 2015, 08:22 AM
Replies: 3,335
Views: 412,183
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
Either you are really naive, or you think we are....

Either you are really naive, or you think we are. From it's beginnings with the Quinnspiracy gamergate has been all about crowdsourced harassment. Dropping an opportunity for harassment into the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 08:14 PM
Replies: 3,335
Views: 412,183
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
It's kind of hard to tell with your posts, but it...

It's kind of hard to tell with your posts, but it feels like this one is in the wrong thread. Was it supposed to be in the more general "are women welcome" thread?

If not it's just an incoherent...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 08:07 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
I'd say some combination of social conservatives...

I'd say some combination of social conservatives and misogynists waging a two-hundred year campaign to demonise feminists, and idiot feminists on the internet using feminism as an excuse to be...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 07:54 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
I'm okay with that definition...

I'm okay with that definition ("SJW"=emotion-driven not evidence-driven), but how to you reconcile this with your support of gamergate, which is almost exclusively about emotion-driven harassment?
...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 06:44 PM
Replies: 3,335
Views: 412,183
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
You literally never get tired of this false...

You literally never get tired of this false equivalence, do you?

Gamergate is a very small, very specific, very recent movement.

Feminism is hundreds of years old and virtually everyone in the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 06:36 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
We've got evidence in this very thread. To you...

We've got evidence in this very thread. To you and Edx SG is an SJW. To her, she's not but the Elevatorgate people are. Neither of you can point to any precise, canonical definition of a "SJW" to see...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 05:54 PM
Replies: 163
Views: 15,548
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
Well you see, gamergate is about ethical games...

Well you see, gamergate is about ethical games journalism. It just is. That claim needs no evidence to support it, it's just self-evidently true because it is because I say so. If anyone questions...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 05:41 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
How hard would it be for you to just state...

How hard would it be for you to just state exactly what your own opinion is, in declarative sentences? Wouldn't that be a lot easier and faster for everyone than asking that someone mine Edx's posts...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 05:10 PM
Replies: 163
Views: 15,548
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
The video was about an evil woman using sexy sex...

The video was about an evil woman using sexy sex to get rich maybe get free publicity for a free game. Using time travel, because she wan't in a relationship with the journalist in question for...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 05:04 PM
Replies: 163
Views: 15,548
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
We already have a thread about this, but this is...

We already have a thread about this, but this is revisionist history at best. Even pro-gamergate timelines agree that the movement (not then called "gamergate") started with the massively...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 04:19 PM
Replies: 3,335
Views: 412,183
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
Alternatively, you constantly cherry-pick the...

Alternatively, you constantly cherry-pick the least sensible things any feminist has ever said, and try to present them as being representative of feminism, then complain bitterly when this is...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 03:42 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
No, it really isn't. "SJW" gestures towards...

No, it really isn't.

"SJW" gestures towards social justice extremists causing trouble on the internet but it doesn't have any agreed-upon definition. All I know for certain if Person A calls...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 03:32 PM
Replies: 163
Views: 15,548
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
Okay, here's where I've got a problem. You came...

Okay, here's where I've got a problem. You came trumpeting in as if you were disagreeing with me, but you aren't. Here's what I said: "The cutoff for acceptability is something which multiple people...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 02:50 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
As I've been trying to explain to you and...

As I've been trying to explain to you and TeapotCavalry, "wanting men and women to be treated equally" is not a magical pass/fail test to determine whether an ideology is feminist or not.

My...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 02:38 PM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
Wow, I've criticised MRAs and gamergaters. Well...

Wow, I've criticised MRAs and gamergaters. Well spotted. It's almost as if I go out of my way to criticise dishonest groups of people spreading misogynistic stupidity.



You're starting to get...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 06:46 AM
Replies: 3,335
Views: 412,183
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
Fascinating. A pretend consumer lobby group being...

Fascinating. A pretend consumer lobby group being outraged by actual consumer lobbying because it's censorship when anyone but them does it.

(Any time you're in a Target store, odds are you're...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 06:35 AM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
I asked an academic colleague a very long time...

I asked an academic colleague a very long time ago how academic feminists defined feminism given the extraordinary plurality of feminist doctrines, and they said that any discourse about sex and...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 06:17 AM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
I think it depends on the subcommunity. I've had...

I think it depends on the subcommunity. I've had more than one skeptical female friend say they had bad experiences with individual branches of Australian Skeptics, and they are by no means raging...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 04:39 AM
Replies: 163
Views: 15,548
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
I agree that banning Wikipedia at the primary and...

I agree that banning Wikipedia at the primary and secondary school level is absurd.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th June 2015, 04:33 AM
Replies: 570
Views: 59,452
Posted By Kevin_Lowe
I guess the game is that you keep acting as if a...

I guess the game is that you keep acting as if a post in good faith will come along soon, by protesting about how you are trying to have a conversation in good faith. But at the same time you keep...
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