Northerner said:
dragonrider said:
Northerner said:
Well I've decided I identify as a teapot, we need to radically shake up the way the English language is being used to victimize me. You guys just don't understand how you are oppressing me. But you must stop!
Meanwhile it's a-okay to kill people with HIV if you're having sex with them in Cali, makes sense. It's illegal to pay someone to have sex with you also, but if you pay someone to have sex with you and film it that's okay. Solid rationality..
All the logic lights are lit, I can see the sparkles and they are sooooo pretty. Pretty lights. Oooh, sparkles.
oooooh, do i detect a little micro-agression there? :?:
Oh my, I'm not if I could have ladled any more sarcasm into a post if I tried. :lol:
I have 0 faith in "the system" as it stands. Laws are not about justice anymore, just about the discriminate use of power according to ethics and economics. The whole thing makes rather disenchanted with the idea of democracy. And this representative democracy we have here is even more of a joke than the corporate democracy of the States. They are far more likely to introduce mandatory life sentencing for mushrooms here than decriminlise them. The prisons aren't ridiculously overfull and fully privatised yet... it's only when we get to that stage and the money doesn't any longer add up that Australians can expect to see any change.
Good luck to my Cali cousins though. I really hope this works out for you guys and it can start the world change. Australia inevitably follows America in almost everything and it will increase the chances of future generations of Aussies to live their lives as they will without interference.
Yeah, it's becoming harder and harder these days, to distinguish sarcasm from someone's seriously deeply held beliefs, isn't it?
The whole political correctness thing..i just don't get it. What's the lure?
My theory about why people fall for it, is that the whole ideological framework behind it is often presented as serious science. Wich it obviously isn't, and i could probably think of a Thousand reasons why it fails the test of proper science, wich i probably shouldn't do because it would be boring. But let me name one reason then: in science, it's allowed to be a critical thinker. To ask critical questions. To put theory's to the test to see if they hold up. Do that in a genderstudies 'studygroup', and they'll probably carve a swastika on your forehead. Or they'll tell you that you're a man, or white, or straight, so your opinion doesn't count, and you won't properly understand it anyway...oops, i contradicted myself here, i accidentally gave two reasons now, instead of just one, for why something like'genderstudies' isn't a real science.
But anyway..some people probably fall for the idea that it's all scientifically proven, that not giving boys a pink dress for their 8th birthday (even if they didn't ask for it, or said 'no' when you asked your son if he wanted such a pink dress), is oppressive to women and sexist in general.
They probably feel like: "well, it's science right?...you can't argue with science".
I find it hard to believe that many people realy believe in that crap. I think they just go along with it and buy the pink dress, only because otherwise the neighbours might think that they reject science or something.