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  • If they are mean spirited, its a reason to complain. Outside that stereotypes can be anything you need them to be. They can reduce cognitive load in storytelling, or a cultural reference point to explore or subvert. Let me ask you, do you get upset at grumpy detectives? Eccentric scientists? Italians who eat family meals together? Do you attack people who make jokes about emails from Nigerians? New Yorkers being assholes, or Texans talking about stuff being bigger? Teachers who care about their students?

    Stereotypes are everywhere. And we dont say anything, because we know they are just tools in writing. Or mildly entertaining gags. Theres a dude on youtube playing “Uncle Roger”, a stereotyped Chinese Malaysian. Over 10m people subbed to his channel. Are they all racist? Should we be boycotting a dude for making a funny character that shits on Jamie Oliver?

    And what about subversion? When stereotypes are used to trick the audience into thinking a character is one thing, but they are really something else? Do you get offended then too?

    But what about people who reenforce stereotypes? Sean Hayes might not be Jack McFarlane, but he does embody a lot of gay stereotypes. Should we all be coming with pitchforks for him? What about Graham Norton?

    Or can we allow for the fact that stereotypes start in truth and grow from there? And the real issue is when we use stereotypes to cause harm? Ie, being mean spirited. You can make jokes about stereotypes, the question is are they coming from a good place? Or are they mean spirited? In the UK and Ireland, we make fun of each others stereotypes all the time. The Welsh shag sheep, the Scots are always drunk on the cheapest booze, the Irish are always drunk and blow shit up, and the English are all stuck up wankers and football hooligans. None of it is taken seriously, no one is clutching their pearls. And we all get on just fine. If you look to North America, Americans all think they are number 1 at everything while the Canadians are overly polite and pushovers.

    The real issue, IMO, is the modern day internet user is too fucking stupid to understand that stereotypes are just that. But then you have all the people claiming that being a boomer makes you a cunt. Or that being right wing makes you a bad guy, and left wing a good guy. That being pro womens rights, means you are anti trans rights. Or that being pro trans means you hate kids or any of the other million or so other things you all get so worked up about every single fucking day in the search for worthless internet points. Seemingly none of you have any idea about the complexity of the human being. That one idea or trait or position, doesnt make you all things associated with that one thing. Im Scottish, I dont drink at all. Im Glaswegian, but my accent isnt so strong that you need subtitles to understand me. I dont have red hair either. I am none of the popular stereotypes said about the group I am in. But I can see the joke, if something makes it. Can you? Or do you just clutch your pearls, and assume that someone is saying something evil against you?

    As for Seamus, Harry Potter was written between 1990 and 1992… Unfuckingclench.



  • This is one of those examples of people reading something on reddit/twitter/facebook, and spreading it around like a fucking moron. That “set”, is a real place. Its the Australia House in London. That is its actual floor.

    The movie:

    The real place:

    It has fuck all to do with Jewish people, or the Star of David. That Geometric shape can be found all over the world. Islamic art, Christian churches, Hindu mandalas, Medieval alchemy, Occult diagrams, Western architectural ornament, Victorian floor tiles, mosaics, stained glass. The list is endless.

    Now, lets see you double down. Cos we all know you people cant ever admit you are wrong about something. This will be fun…


  • No one seems to have had any issue with the stereotyping didnt seem to appear until the internet decided she was a cunt. The reality is that the character is one of the better ones in the book. Yes, hes stereotyped and the blowing up gags are a lot. But the character is never shat on. Never made to be the butt of the joke. Hes shown to be brave, funny, loyal. He grows up over the course of the books, and his character goes through some shit.

    The main issue seems to be that Americans dont understand, that people over here arent so thin skinned. We can take jokes about stereotypes on the chin. Pretty much everyone in the book is stereotyped in some way. But none of it ever comes across as mean spirited.

    Its all just “JK bad” shit. Instead of focusing on her, the things she says and does. People want to make out like everything she ever did was shit. Its silly.


  • Ironically, that kinda is what he said. The meme is misrepresenting what he actually said, for some reason. Without getting too deep into it, he basically said that sex that wasnt for the express purpose of making babies, was “gay sex”. The mention of orgasms, was in relation to this. Not about his wife, or about not giving your wife orgasms. Just that having sex only to have orgasms was “gay sex”.

    So, yes, he basically said that anyone having sex that wasnt about making babies, was gay…





  • DNA is basically your identity. Your health, your ancestry, everything. But its also, not just you. Its your family, past and future. If we start talking the DNA of the dead, and Im pretty sure we already do as the dead have no rights, then at some point someone is going to challenge the right to privacy of the living in this area. After all, we’re all going to die sooner or later, so why not get that sweet, sweet data just now?

    Basic harms would be health insurance. If a provider has your DNA, it might show that your great, great granny got cancer. And they use that data to increase your rates. Or worse, deny your treatment, because your granny had the same treatment, and it didnt work.

    What about work? Your ancestor has his history of health issues, and so refuses to hire you because you might get that too.

    DNA from you or your relatives can also be use to track you, identify you, connect you to certain locations.

    But heres the big one. Cancer. Your DNA holds the key to curing cancer. Some company has your DNA, and using your DNA creates a cure for Cancer. They then make trillions of money off of it. And you get fuck all, even though it your DNA. You dont even get to say that it should be given away. Its theirs now.

    Also, once a company has your DNA. They have it forever. That you and your family, easily profiled, tracked, and whatever else until the end of time. What if, at some point, some targets you or a descendant with a DNA targeted virus? Science fiction now, but maybe not in the future.

    Basically, the damage that can be done is limitless.


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    Know, that when that doesnt happen, its because youre perpetually online. And what you see is a direct result of what happens when you constantly tell men they arent worth bothering about, or that they have some special gang that lets do whatever they want.

    But just you keep on minimizing mens lived experiences… Im sure that wont come back to bite you on the ass at any point. Fucking sexist piece of shit.


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    Its almost like, we should shit on anyone for having more than we do because being rich in one area, doesnt mean you are in all areas… But the people who talk about “privilege”, are making sweeping statements about the group. Im a man, so therefore I can possibly having any problems. “Wont someone think of the poor straight white man?” is something commonly said about the perpetually online.

    When I was a boy, a girl asked me out. I said no, cos I knew she was crazy. To get back at me, she told her friends that I raped her. My “privilege” got me kicked out of school, arrested, beaten up, and eventually stabbed. We talk about no one believing women, but thats bullshit. Men are ALWAYS automatically assumed to be the asshole. But because rich assholes, got away with so much abuse, all of a sudden its “all men” and if you dare say “its not all men”, all of sudden that too is problem.

    But the biggest problem? That rape that didnt happen, thats counted as one of the “not convicted” rape statistics. The fact that I wasnt cleared, because how do you prove a negative? Still counts as a rape, even though it didnt happen. Even though I was convicted. I am still part of the state that men get away with rape, because the system hates women. I am considered a rapist, because some girl who couldnt take a rejection on the chin. And yet, apparently the only thing men have to worry about is being embarrassed. Ill remind you again, I was routinly beaten up, and eventually stabbed on the say so of one mixed up teenage girl. THAT is what its like to be a man. Once you get that finger pointed at you, youre fucked. But because rich men can buy their way out of it, all of sudden, we are all scum who get away with it.

    People are just people. Men, women, gay, straight, black white, tall, short, fat, thin. All of us have things in the plus an minus column. Calling it “privilege” is an internet buzzword used to attack people. Thats its only function. Just like every other well worn internet buzzword. Boomer or millennial, like the year you were born has any baring on your personality. Honestly, fuck the internet for it its turned so many people into. We spend all our time now, looking for how much a victim we can make ourselves out to be by making others look like cunts. We dont raise ourselves up, we tear others down. And its not even about feeling better about where we are in life, its just about worthless internet points. Likes, shares, subscribes, all while spouting popular things. Its just all so… pathetic.







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    They youre a fucking idiot. Whatever benefits you have or dont have, are due to circumstance. If I cut your dick off, do you all of sudden lose all your “privilege”? Its a shitty buzzword used to make other people feel like shit, and to shitty people off for their shitty actions. Like all the women screaming about white male privilege, like they werent standing right fucking next to us for hundreds of years.


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    Yo loser (and the losers who upvoted), male privilege doesn’t mean all men have easy lives

    Yo, cunty chops. You might want to take that up with all the people who claim that we are, and do, benefit every day in every way.

    The issue of women voting on it, was about the fact that women can and do vote on things that only affect men. I would have thought that was clear? One of half of the country saying that they other had to go and die… And fuck you, for saying “well women couldnt vote there until 1990, hurr durr!”. So that means that its ok for them to have a say whether men do or do not die?

    As for men being the issue for other men, no one said it wasnt, fuck face. The point, you dumb fucking prick, is that men do not have it easy, like so many perpetually online morons make out. Everyone has issues. Saying one group has it better is bigotry. Its the same dog shit that has dumb fucking cunts like you claiming that immigrants are stealing all the jobs and raping all the kids. Its wrong, its dumb, and fuck you people for always trying to make complicated issues down to sex, sexual orientation or race. Only a spoon eating cunt does that… And oh look, here you are. Slabbering bullshit through broken teeth and piss poor insults. Get fucked.



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    Women who moan about that shit are just sexists. Plain and simple.

    Male privilege isnt a real thing. Its just rich guys that we all carry the can for. In the real world, we are just as put upon as any other. When complain about social pressures and stigmas, meanwhile men complain about being force to go to war. All the countries below force men to war. To fight, to die. And you just know that if any other countries found themselves in war, theyd be pulling men in with a hover. And in the case of Switzerland, that country had a referendum on forced conscription. And women, a lot of women, voted to keep it even though it didnt affect them.

    Switzerland

    Austria

    Greece

    Turkey

    Cyprus

    Finland

    Denmark

    Israel* (men and women serve, but women have exemptions and escape routes men don’t have, so some classify this as quasi male-only)

    Egypt

    Iran

    Syria

    Jordan (inactive but law exists)

    Algeria

    Tunisia

    Morocco (reinstated in 2018)

    South Korea

    North Korea

    Singapore

    Taiwan

    Thailand

    Mongolia

    Uzbekistan

    Turkmenistan

    Myanmar

    Vietnam (rarely enforced on women)

    Angola

    Mozambique

    Eritrea (both genders technically, but female service is inconsistently applied; often considered male-dominant)

    Brazil

    Colombia

    Bolivia

    Paraguay

    Chile (law applies to both, but in practice conscription is overwhelmingly male)