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[–] 160 points 1 year ago (28 children)

At the risk of losing brain cells, I'm extremely curious what her reasoning is here.

Is it just cause it's childish? Is shaming men for liking childish things not enforcing toxic masculinity?

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  • [–] 118 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    If Cindy is commenting on him liking something she considers childish, then Cindy is indeed a bitch.

    But if she’s commenting on his apparent expectation that it be free for men in their twenties as if he’s owed something, that I can kinda see her point.

    Would be nice if she made her point in a way in which her meaning could be clearly understood.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    He didn't say that it shouldn't also be free for other subsets of society.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Reading must be very difficult for you with that level of comprehension.

    If he didn't mean only men, there's less than no reason to specify men nor an age range.

    Please, learn to read. For your own sake.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    The child is lashing out lol, adorable. You wanna say more mean words to make you feel better?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    lol you're too dumb to hold a conversation. Congrats.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Lol you're entire comment was just 2/3 insults, you call that a conversation? Ooof. Someone needs a nap.

    Looking at your recent comments, you have gems like "You must enjoy the taste of dick in the morning." And I'm too dumb to hold a convo? You're idea of a convo is insult someone till they don't want to deal with you anymore. Congrats on being alone.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Maybe because he advocates for something to be free for men instead of everybody?

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  • [+] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As a guy, I biologically need to go-kart once a month.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    No, but it is passively transphobic, in that you're forgetting that men and non-binary people may also use tampons. Tampons and every other necessity should be free for everyone.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I'm just curious how she expects us to educate ourselves about this.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Before seeing the reply, my l reaction to his post was “this is some bullshit. I wanna ride go-carts too.”

    Cindy needs to calm down though. I’m sure he didn’t mean women wouldn’t be allowed on the track; just that this man really likes go-carts.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Educate yourself in what? Men shouldn't be allowed to enjoy themselves? Happy guys are red flags? What's the problem?

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    If you do things that bring you joy, frequently, you're less likely to become all festery and bitter, angry goblin.

    I struggle to see what Cindy's getting at, it's ridiculous, of course, but I'm still curious and can't imagine in my wildest dreams, why, because someone wants socialism and she's brainwashed to believe capitalism is the only way? I don't get it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    If you do things that bring you joy, frequently, you're less likely to become all festery and bitter, angry goblin.

    And misery loves company. You can't just go find a positive existence and be one of those weirdos who is like, into things.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think motor "sports", competition, noise, speed and fossil fuel is what triggers red flag. Or Ami wrong ?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Yeah red flags because James keeps crashing, such a shit driver.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, god forbid that men have hobbies, they should work 25/8!

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

    Cindy's one of those arseholes that thinks age-appropriate applies to leisure activities , isn't she?

    Unless the guy in question is responding to a free sanitary products post, then he can eat my entire flatulent arsehole

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    If anything, it's more age appropriate to drive a go-kart in your 20's than as a child. It's a car. You have to be 16-18 to drive a car. Just because it's a very small car shouldn't change that. 😤

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Found the person upset at getting passed by all the 12 year olds because they weigh half as much.

    :p

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I'm too big to even fit in them 😩

    I remember not being able to reach the pedals on the cars at the Disneyland Autobahn. Now, I can just lift the car and carry it with me.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    .... this that why the pass me? VINDICATION!!!!!!

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago* (24 children)

    The red flag I see is the word “Caucasian” in his username.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Perhaps it's just to avoid confusing him with other varieties of Jameses out there

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Given that I can think of at least three white guys names James off the top of my head that's a really stupid way to avoid confusion, and I feel like someone would only miss how stupid that was if they had a weird obsession with their own skin color, so it's actually two red flags

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    I suspect it’s a joke based on The Office. Oe of the main characters is a Triscuit-American called Jim. There is a different character called Asian Jim. Caucasian James = white Jim.

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  • [+] -19 points 1 year ago* (13 children)

    But "Caucasian" is now recognized as a racist term (in that using it produces racism), kind of because it's a science-y word for "white", an unscientific concept.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Who recognizes "Caucasian" as a racist term? I'm asking this in all seriousness as I have never heard this before

    Caucasian should mean "from the Caucus mountain region"

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Which leads in perfectly to another joke from the US version of The Office where Dwight claims that Kelly, of Indian heritage, doesn’t qualify for their parent company Sabre’s “Print in All Colours” initiative because Indian people are technically Caucasian

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Reminds me of that old chestnut of the white guy from South Africa who, after emigrating to the US, got into trouble for stating he was "African-American."

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  • I had a friend who moved to the US from South Africa as a kid. When "African-American" started being used she was very confused. She would ask "How is X 'African' when he was born in New Jersey and only speaks English while I was born in South Africa and speak Swahili and Xhosa is not African just because Im white?" It was then I started realizing how racist some of the attempts to counter racism ended up being.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    As a science term for "white", see "Too Many Scientists Still Say Caucasian" in Scientific American, also "Abandoning the word Caucasian" in the Journal of Genetic Counciling and "The Ongoing Incorrect Use of Caucasian in Medical Research" in the journal Health Equity. There are a bunch of scientists who think this.

    I think if you are actually describing something or someone from the actual Caucasus mountain region, it would be correct, but people might thing you meant "white" so even then you might be better off with "from the Caucasus Mountains".

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  • Thank you for this.

    My understanding was “caucasian” applied to all groups that migrated through the caucuses and that’s why Persians and other non-European nations were included. To be clear Im in my 50s so the above could just be the result of institutionalized racism that never got addressed due to not having much in an education in sociology/ anthropology

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    Yes?

    I suppose this doesn't exactly suggest it's deprecated in Twitter handles. But if the scientists have given up on it, why should normal people keep it?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    No.

    A couple researchers suggesting a literary review of the specific usage of a word and how it is used in specific contexts within scientific literature is a far cry from the idea that scientists in general are claiming that the word caucasian is a generally racist word.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't know that scientists in general (from chemists to seismologists) know it, but the people who study what scientists ought to call groups of people seem to have reached consensus.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No, read the fucking link you provided, that is not at all what it’s saying.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Oh I see, maybe this is saying more that people should abandon the term, not that they have already abandoned the term. I might be filling in the bit where people actually notice that they should indeed abandon the term and do so, which might not actually be happening.

    If you look at this article for example I think it supports your view: people often in practice continue using the term even though it has been discovered by some experts to be incorrect. That's not what a broad consensus in science and medicine overall would look like.

    I guess I think the people providing evidence that the term should not be used are in fact correct. I haven't seen a lot of support for the opposing view, so I think there is consensus among the people who professionally consider questions of terminology around race and ethnicity. None of the articles citing the first article I posted seem to be along the lines of "no we should keep it actually". So my view is that the field consists of people who know better and people who haven't bothered to think about the question, and the people who know better are probably right.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Most likely a reference to the character Jim from Mark Twain’s book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Although he wasn’t ever called “N****r Jim” in the actual book, the character was referred to by that name throughout the Jim Crow era.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Women like go karts too, Todd!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I assumed it’s a troll account, but she appears to be real. And from BC. And such a stereotypical representation of BC, I’m back to questioning whether or not it’s a troll account.

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  • The HR lady at work was telling me about her husband's sweet ass jeep that's all modded and lifted and whatnot. Then she said that she can't drive it because she can't drive stick and its the one thing she let's him have. I feel bad for the poor dude, he must be miserable.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Fuck you cindy.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    That's why Cindy is ending up as lonely old hag , no joy what so ever

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    ”Burn dust, eat my rubber!” -Clark Griswold

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Educate in what ? Not enjoying life ?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I'm speculating about her biases; she views the activity of go-karting to be a childish activity, and therefore the dude is childish. She sees a dude asking for something for free as entitled. (Go-karting is super fun BTW, especially if you go with a big group of friends, now matter what your age.) Cindy is indeed a bitch.

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