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u/isupposeitsjoe · 1 pointr/SelfAwarewolves

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> Feminism was about equal treatment once upon a time but from what I have seen it's not just about equality. There is always something new to tackle it seems.

While I don't agree completely I can definitely understand the fear. I don't think we'll ever see "THANKS FOR THE EQUALITY" marches. It opens up a ton of questions:

  • Who decides what equality is?
  • How much is enough?
  • Contextualizing it as a policy reform what determines how far the government can or should go? What means to achieve equality are moral?

    For me I think that the differences are so big in so many places I'm not worried about those questions. I don't see a feasible way for such a drastic change to take place that I would ever need to be worried.

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    > Right now it's the wage gap, which is inaccurately representing a disparity in wage equality. In most scenarios I bet that a woman and man who start out doing the same job make the same salary. I know my female peers I have worked with were making the same as I was in my position.

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    So there's a lot of data about this that can be interpreted in all sorts of ways. From what I've seen a major contributor to the gap is Maternity Leave and parenting still being a major function of women in the household. It's the same thing that would happen if I quit my job and go hike the Appalachian trails for three years. I come back into the workforce behind the people who started the same time I did. The difference being one was for me to explore and the other is a needed task to advance the human population as a whole. I don't have a good answer to fix that, except to offer day care and other things at companies, which some of the really big swanky tech firms are doing. We'll see what data comes out of there.

    On top of that most fortune 500 CEO's are men. All US Presidents are men. Most billionaires are men. With your previous point that I think is about women graduating college at bigger numbers than men that should change in the future. But it hasn't changed yet. For that change to happen we have to keep the issue on the forefront. No one should get what they don't deserve, but I have to imagine there's been at least 1 woman who would have made a great President and I doubt I've heard of her. We need to ensure those opportunities exist and women have an unbiased chance to advance to the top.

    This also goes into STEM and research fields that are dominated by men.

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    As for me I'm in my late 20's. Kids aren't for me for a variety of personal reasons and that lines up with my SO. So for a long term solution to a long term problem it's the easiest cheapest way to go. I'll know more how I feel about it in a few weeks.

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    > As it is women have it pretty good and in some cases better than men.

    You'll find a lot of feminists fighting for men too. Fighting for men's rights as parents, or for changing tables in men's bathrooms, or to increase the amount of men who become teachers in grade school or nurses.

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    Some things that might interest you are r/MensLib which is a relatively open minded community that helps talk about these things. They aren't nice to trolls but are very willing to talk about things at a granular level.



    Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men is a book that is just a roller coaster of scientific studies and citations on the invisible forces in our world and how women fit in it. Whether you agree with every point or how they interpreted each individual stat it's a monumental resource and I learned a lot.
u/avantgardengnome · 27 pointsr/SelfAwarewolves

I’ve mainly just picked this all up here and there, but I am very much looking forward to reading NYT editorial board member Jesse Wegman’s book-length case against the EC, the aptly-titled Let the People Pick the President . Coming out next March.

Edit: I know of Wegman through his advocacy for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which is a fascinating attempt to render the EC useless without an amendment (by using states’ rights, which conservatives should love, right?). Definitely a rabbit hole of reading around that.

u/reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed · -59 pointsr/SelfAwarewolves

I would agree with you, but if you've ever been institutionalized, you'll find out pretty quickly that the dominant paradigm doesn't. The "mental illess" label, in all my experiences, is used to pretty much absolve a person of any blame, and attribute all agency to some kind of bad genetics or other.

In other words, in the mental health world, you might find that many if not most practitioners would try to convince you that yes, air density is not only the main thing that affects your car speed, it's more or less the only thing.

Besides personal experience, I'm kind of cribbing from Thomas Szasz here. He has a lot of good books, but this one is as cromulent a starting place as any:

https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Mental-Illness-Foundations-Personal/dp/0061771228/ref=sr_1_1?crid=217CB9I9L1F9V&keywords=myth+of+mental+illness+thomas+szasz&qid=1570540858&sprefix=myth+of+mental+ill%2Caps%2C227&sr=8-1

u/silly_walks_ · 8 pointsr/SelfAwarewolves

This is misleading, if not outright false.

Business is the most popular major in America by a wide (wide) margin, and most of what gets taught in economics is your standard Free Markets = Freedom conservatism.

u/Syrikal · 1 pointr/SelfAwarewolves

I don't doubt it's used there, but statistics are surprisingly easy to fuck with if you know what you're doing. This book was particularly enlightening.

u/DeviantLogic · 0 pointsr/SelfAwarewolves

> then self-interest, cooperation, gender fluidity, homosexuality, socialism, and diversity should be what they fight for.

Not to mention eating your offspring. Cannibalism is rampant in nature, so 'nature of biology', right?

P.S. Please don't eat people. There's actually a very good reason we don't do that, because it very much used to be a thing until we started getting prion diseases from it.

u/PuckGoodfellow · 2 pointsr/SelfAwarewolves

In August, Preet Bharara hosted Michael Waldman on his podcast. Waldman is a 2A scholar who wrote The Second Amendment: A Biography. I thought it was a really good look at the why the 2A was written and the historical approaches the country has had with gun control.

Interview starts at 13 min - https://pca.st/9H25

u/xNovaz · -15 pointsr/SelfAwarewolves

Dr. William Thompson a CDC employee

looks like this.

Who’s one of the authors of the peer reviewed paper “Age at first measles-mumps-rubella vaccination in children with autism and school-matched control subjects: a population-based study in metropolitan atlanta.”

https://imgur.com/a/EDJwoFz

Rationalwiki states Thompson to be a Psychologist. The CDC refers to him as an Epidemiologist.

A timeline of the events:

https://canaryparty.org/commentary/timeline-of-events-in-the-william-thompson-cdcwhistleblower-scandal/

https://www.immunizationcoalitions.org/content/uploads/2017/01/Timeline-for-CDC-Whistleblower.pdf

Here’s his official statement released through his attorneys representing him at Morgan Verkamp: (posted above)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140831050501/http://www.morganverkamp.com/august-27-2014-press-release-statement-of-william-w-thompson-ph-d-regarding-the-2004-article-examining-the-possibility-of-a-relationship-between-mmr-vaccine-and-autism/

Representative Bill Posey:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4546421/rep-bill-posey-calling-investigation-cdcs-mmr-reasearch-fraud

Recordings between Thompson and Hooker: (Small clips are in the movie Vaxxed)

http://fearlessparent.org/why-is-thimerosal-still-in-vaccines-recording-1/

https://youtu.be/hlxdWfTLHH0

Transcripts are in this Amazon book:

https://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Whistleblower-Exposing-Autism-Research/dp/1634509951

Brian Hooker’s official statement regarding William Thompson after his retracted study: (1) (2)

https://www.focusforhealth.org/dr-brian-hooker-statement-william-thompson/

Not an expert but here’s an article talking about the supposed hidden data/omitted results:

https://www.autisminvestigated.com/brian-hooker-confirmed-by-cdc/

u/Jawbracer · 2 pointsr/SelfAwarewolves

To be fair this is Based Russell, he is physically disabled and quite possibly developmentally stunted. Under no circumstances should you try to make contact with this man despite the fact that his name is public record and it is very very easy to find his contact info.

He has attempted to sue Taylor Swift, among others, into associating with him so that he can achieve his dream to have a career in entertainment as well as have prostitution legalized in the state of Utah.

Again I urge you not to contact him, not only because he's funny in his own right and contacting him will just get him to nuke his accounts again, but also because he's a very litigious man and if you fuck with him too much he might do the same to you.

u/Really_McNamington · 2 pointsr/SelfAwarewolves

Pick up a copy of King Leopolds Ghost or The Kaiser's Holocaust. Both very readable although not much fun.

u/LurkingHare · 22 pointsr/SelfAwarewolves

Recently I got a very interesting book called White Fragility by Robin D'Angelo. Now I do not live in the US, but I was horribly surprised how many points this book raises applied directly to me.

u/hoooourie · 2 pointsr/SelfAwarewolves

I wouldn’t worry about it, this guys wrote books about how the holocaust wasn’t really Germany’s fault

u/TypicalTDShill · 4 pointsr/SelfAwarewolves

Go read about the capitalist mode of production was exported and forced on the world. Modern states were created by the bourgeois class. Capitalism cannot exist without a state monopoly on violence, otherwise private property could not be protected.

u/WorldController · 0 pointsr/SelfAwarewolves

> pronouns don’t refer to biological sex

Sure they do. For instance, we refer to our biologically male pets as "he," and our female pets as "she."

>they’ve existed since hundreds of years before chromosomes were discovered

What's the relevance of this? Yes, the oppressive social construct of gender has been widespread in large-scale societies since sex-based divisions of labor were formally institutionalized, well before modern science. So what? This does not mean we don't also sometimes use pronouns to refer to organisms' biological sex, or that we can't abandon the use of gendered terms. This smacks of traditionalist, reactionary claptrap.

>transphobes have to do some insane mental gymnastics to justify their bigotry!

Bigotry is intolerance. There is no intolerance of trans folk involved in the refusal to reproduce gender via the adoption of gendered nomenclature. It's patently absurd to think that avoidance of oppressive (gendered) language is oppressive. Such an attitude is reminiscent of white racists who claim that those who point out actual, structural racism are the real racists. Again, trans ideology, and the gaslighting tactics its adherents resort to, is thoroughly conservative.
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>i don’t think gender is oppressive for everyone, i feel very much at home in my femininity and i don’t want that taken away, but if you feel like your gender is harming you, then just ask me to use gender neutral pronouns for you.

First, gender isn't merely a personal thing; rather, it is characteristically interpersonal. Remember, gender is a social construct. Just like racists (and pretty much all other anti-egalitarians, for that mater), you're committed to a traditionally individualist mindset when it comes to understanding social issues. Observes sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva in Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America:

>The frame of abstract liberalism involves using ideas associated with political liberalism (e.g., “equal opportunity,” the idea that force should not be used to achieve social policy) and economic liberalism (e.g., choice, individualism) in an abstract manner to explain racial matters. (p. 56, italics in original, bold added)

Of course, traditional Western individualism is a conservative ideology. It functions to preserve social inequalities. Further, it is simply unscientific. Social scientists have long known that individualistic accounts of human society and behavior are bogus. As the late sociologist Allan G. Johnson would put it, such accounts miss the forest for the trees.

Second, though you may not feel personally oppressed by gender, this doesn't mean that others don't. This is what is called anecdotal evidence; you cannot make broad generalizations based on singular, personal accounts. Gender is, in fact, an oppressive social construct because it engenders social inequality and instills conformity; this, of course, results in much distress for those who do not wish to conform, via social exclusion that can even culminate in violence. Your callous disregard here for others is similar to that of selfish "I got mine" American libertarians. Again, you, and the ideology you represent, are clearly conservative.

Third, you are erroneously conflating the social construct of gender with traditionally gendered (masculine VS feminine) social presentations. I'm not suggesting that you should have your right to present yourself in a feminine manner taken away. In fact, freedom to express oneself as one sees fit is the point of gender critical efforts! The issue here is that these social presentations are formally instituted; as I explained above, this is problematic for many reasons.

Finally, as I've been saying, I'd prefer it if you refrained from the usage of gendered terms altogether. Instead of using pronouns such as "he/she" and "his/hers" to refer to people's genders, use them in reference to their biological sex. Sex-neutral terms such as "they" are fine as well.
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>dude i fuckin wish we lived in a society where i was considered a conservative!

Hmm? Why is that, haha?

Whether society considers you conservative is not the point. For instance, mainstream American society regards liberals as leftists, even though they are not actually leftist. Society, of course, can be wrong. Since you advocate the usage of terms to refer to gender, you are, in fact, conservative, as this practice functions to preserve rather than eliminate this oppressive, anti-egalitarian social construct. Whether society sees you as conservative is irrelevant.

>no one can agree on what defines sex, not even scientists

While the particulars and nuances of biological sex are still a matter of scientific debate, researchers agree on general properties of biological sex. For example, organisms of a particular sex contain only same-sex intranuclear genetic material (XX or XY), can only produce same-sex gametes, and can only reproduce with conspecifics of the opposite sex. While there are some exceptions (e.g., children and eunuchs, who are unable to produce gametes), when it comes to normal development these properties are usually present.

Unlike biological sex, gender has no particular material substrate. It is, through and through, purely a social construct. It is not comparable to biological sex, which is a natural phenomenon that transcends human culture.

u/injusticehasbeendone · 2 pointsr/SelfAwarewolves

WOW. You've either been living under a rock, drank the cool-aid, or are just straight up lying since you are claiming not to know that white nationalist and white supremacist doesn't have a venm diagram that is almost just a circle.

No one in this conversation ever said being white was a crime or unequal. In fact I explicitly said there was nothing wrong with it at all so please cool your jumping to conclusions and stop putting the results of your lack of paying attention to what I wrote in my mouth.

Patriotism is a good thing. Nationalism is not. Here's a good comic to help remember the difference between them. https://smbc-comics.com/comic/an-important-distinction

White is a category historically defined by people in that category in order to justify mistreatment of those outside that category. That is why it is a bit weird to be proud to be part of that club. Irish people only became white (and therefore stopped being segregated and spat upon by white people) when people looking to maintain slavery needed their votes. That's just history. Chinese people would have probably become white if they were present in America as a substantial voting block at the same moment in history.

https://www.amazon.com/Invention-White-Race-Theodore-Allen/dp/1844677710/ref=pd_aw_sbs_14_1/138-9638101-7860931?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1844677710&pd_rd_r=33b3afd0-4ca2-4f09-aec7-d5c89cdba1e3&pd_rd_w=7uYAR&pd_rd_wg=d08gN&pf_rd_p=1c5a26b5-ed76-40f7-b20c-b5d5bd4bc6be&pf_rd_r=31NH8JEN3HH63Q8CZWQX&psc=1&refRID=31NH8JEN3HH63Q8CZWQX

Now on to American history even though that's beside most of the actual points we were talking about since I want to address your last and odd point:

No one said settling North America was bad. I personally think the methods used for the invasion and genocide that came after were underhanded and despicable though typical of the time in a lot of places. One of the reasons for the revolutionary war was Britain wanted to actually respect the land treities made with the nations already on the continent which many American's hated for many reasons including the fact that they tied land ownership to freedom (and freedom is their God given right), and thought natives were lesser people or agents of the devil. This is all very well documented and an unfortunate but unarguable fact of history. If you are interested in learning a bit more about it check out this book: https://www.amazon.com/Two-Faces-American-Freedom/dp/067428433X

The abhorrent methods used by a nation of course doesn't make every member of that nation at the time guilty nor evil. It could mean that they did the wrong thing. There is a difference between being horribly wrong and doing evil things and being evil. Nor does it somehow make the descendants of that nation wrong or evil. What makes someone a responsible adult is acknowledging the past as it actually was good and bad, understanding the impact of that past, and working to do the right thing, to not repeat past mistakes, and to make the world a better place. We can't do anything about the past, but we can do something about the present and the future using our knowledge of how things came to be.

Though, regardless of what you think of American history, I do think your bar for what justifies a take over is super low dude. By that measure, China completely taking over and whiping out most of the Native population of Europe during the middle ages or early Rennaisance would have been completely A-OK since Europe at the time couldn't stop warring with itself and would eat parts of dead human bodies that they looted and drank the fresh blood of the condemned as medicine.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/

Happy Halloween with that link above; it is certainly gross and spooky. 😱🤮