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evidence that men are right and women are stupid
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tardy on these heaters
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the women are all saying "Yes i believe in human decency" and the man are like "thats becuase youre not male"
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babyfinland posted:
evidence that men are right and women are stupid


but they all talk about how their male friends would be interested if they had a chance. substantively everyone's on the same page, the difference is in semantics

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Mike Nelson here.
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khamsek and i love each other in a platonic way so it is possible. unless she's secretly socratic. which i think is some sort of hemlock-related friendship.
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yes, preferably friends with benefits
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lame
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he should have asked less attractive people
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Mike Nelson here.
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discipline posted:
aa oui but I might as well not be a woman as far as you know me...

i'm the gay girl in damascus

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Mike Nelson here.
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futurewidow posted:
he should have asked less attractive people

utah has no unattractive people

goatstein left a few months ago

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yes.
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penitent
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i have friends who are girls who i have no interest in having sex with
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i was talking about this to my friends and my instinct was to say that in many cases i value a friendship over having sex, since, after all, i'm not intensely attracted to most of my female friends, and if i were, i certainly wouldn't be able to hang out with them "platonically" without getting too agitated and either not being friends on account of some frustratingly unspoken sexual attraction or hashing out what exactly is going on (or, god forbid, making a move (or even worse, inviting the 'friend' to which i'm attracted out to a bar and picking a girl up there in a desperate attempt to cause some kind of jealousy - bad idea)). at the same time, it's a rough thing to say simply "I am not attracted to you," though i have done it in the past, simply because a woman did that to me before, even though i was not attracted to her either; though she didn't believe me when i told her and chose instead to believe that i was telling her i wasn't attracted to her out of spite.

in the end i opted for making dumb jokes
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it can be done and in fact being attracted to someone gives your friendship a little extra punch if you're not a sex deprived lunatic
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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Can a Sexually Active Couple Like Each Other
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you cant be "just friends" with the same sex
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Impper posted:
i was talking about this to my friends and my instinct was to say that in many cases i value a friendship over having sex, since, after all, i'm not intensely attracted to most of my female friends, and if i were, i certainly wouldn't be able to hang out with them "platonically" without getting too agitated and either not being friends on account of some frustratingly unspoken sexual attraction or hashing out what exactly is going on (or, god forbid, making a move (or even worse, inviting the 'friend' to which i'm attracted out to a bar and picking a girl up there in a desperate attempt to cause some kind of jealousy - bad idea)). at the same time, it's a rough thing to say simply "I am not attracted to you," though i have done it in the past, simply because a woman did that to me before, even though i was not attracted to her either; though she didn't believe me when i told her and chose instead to believe that i was telling her i wasn't attracted to her out of spite.

in the end i opted for making dumb jokes

i think it's a failure of strength and imagination to not be able to rise above your contradictory libidinal drives categorically. Like, i'm sure there's a subjective position towards love where you cannot be 'just friends' with a certain person. but to make that a categorical gender distinction is fuckin pathetic. LoL.

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what they're really asking in this video is "Hey do you think the unconscious exists?"
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that's weird, i'd suspect most of my male friends would answer in the affirmative, though perhaps they wouldn't be entirely honest in saying so
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futurewidow posted:
he should have asked less attractive people


i've known a few guys who say things like "i don't hang out around women i'm not attracted to".

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discipline posted:
I think the kind of gender mixing that goes on nowadays (esp. w/r/t ideas of "friends") is very new and I don't know if we have been able to properly hash it out with regards to thousands of years of sexist baggage yet. the problem I generally encounter with men-who-are-friends is less of a question of sexual attraction and more a question of... other things.

Political Opinions!!! AHAHAHAH!!!!

anyway, i don't buy this, it's too vague, and doesn't seem to be true of USSR''=
http://www.gendercide.org/case_stalin.html << I rest my case, Your Onion

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"Sixty percent of Russians support the use of quotas for women in elections to executive and legislative offices." lol

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Crow posted:
"Sixty percent of Russians support the use of quotas for women in elections to executive and legislative offices." lol



isnt that just because like 70% of russians are women what with the men all dying of alcohol poisoning

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deadken posted:

Crow posted:
"Sixty percent of Russians support the use of quotas for women in elections to executive and legislative offices." lol

isnt that just because like 70% of russians are women what with the men all dying of alcohol poisoning

why would that matter? how many american women support quotas for women in elections? it was 16% for the american population in 1995

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although i guess it's a moot point at the moment, yet the bar is there, our expectations are high and our reality is low
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Mike Nelson here.
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one of the lower-ranked candidates in the leadership race for the social-democrats here is promising that he'd change funding rules so that parties have a large incentive to run at least 30% female candidates and are rewarded for getting that number up to 50%.

personally i oppose that for single-constituency races because you can't neatly guarantee that pattern across a country. like how could decide, as in individual selecting one candidate for your area, that it'll balance out across the country. so we need proportional representation with lists so you can balance the lists.
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ill be ur friend khamsek
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discipline posted:
I don't see what representative quotas have to do with men + women being able to be friends? there is a high desire for representative quotas in palestine among both women and men but that would certainly be different if that was to assume men + women would suddenly be allowed mix freely... please advise

oh i was just thinking it was hilarious, in a country that now has this flagrant type of moral and systemic corruption: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/2470310/Sexual-harrassment-okay-as-it-ensures-humans-breed-Russian-judge-rules.html

but anyway, i'd say it was much different during the socialist days, of course it wasnt a resolved issue by any means, i'm not arguing that at all. but there was definitely way more gender mixing back then from what i know from my mother than i ever see in contemporary america, its disgusting. how backwards

id like to get some sort of quantifiable data though

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tardy on these heaters
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discipline posted:
please don't say that in public or my racist husband will stone me 2 death



EHehehhe

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I didnt think there was an uglier library than the one up at the university of utah but theirs is way uglier.
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Crow posted:
i think it's a failure of strength and imagination to not be able to rise above your contradictory libidinal drives categorically. Like, i'm sure there's a subjective position towards love where you cannot be 'just friends' with a certain person. but to make that a categorical gender distinction is fuckin pathetic. LoL.

Crows shall die but crow shall not.


oh, yes of course, it is one thing to say this and another to comport yourself with dignity and humanity in your day to day relationships. what is particularly difficult though, perhaps only for me, is conducting (for whatever reason) a non-sexual relationship in one that has been sexually charged from the start, which is much different than being having a friendship with somebody you simply desire

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Only if she is your friend's girlfriend and that's not really a friendship so much as a ceasefire