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?
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?
Educate yourself in what? Men shouldn't be allowed to enjoy themselves? Happy guys are red flags? What's the problem?
I mean, I guess the entitlement, but also it's a twitter shitpost lol
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.
I think it might have something to do with him only wanting it specifically for men.
If you do things that bring you joy, frequently, you're less likely to become all festery and bitter … I don’t get it.
You already explained Cindy’s problem in the first sentence.
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.
I think motor "sports", competition, noise, speed and fossil fuel is what triggers red flag. Or Ami wrong ?
Yeah, god forbid that men have hobbies, they should work 25/8!
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
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. 😤
Found the person upset at getting passed by all the 12 year olds because they weigh half as much.
:p
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.
.... this that why the pass me? VINDICATION!!!!!!
Nah, you can take the curves faster when you weigh more, skill issue.
The red flag I see is the word “Caucasian” in his username.
Perhaps it's just to avoid confusing him with other varieties of Jameses out there
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
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.
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.
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"
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
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."
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.
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".
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
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?
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.
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.
No, read the fucking link you provided, that is not at all what it’s saying.
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.
Hehe.............................................................
Cock
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.
Women like go karts too, Todd!
Cindy is a red flag :)
Oh she warned the world for the red flag that she is, herself?
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.
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.
Educate in what ? Not enjoying life ?
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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