Darkmantle said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knXHUQ2A1J4&feature=g-user-u
times are a changing. Both genders have real issue with sexual assault, it's time to address the problems of today, not the 80s or 90s
Well, for one, female inmates are twice as likely [http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/press/svpjri0809pr.cfm] as men to experience inmate-on-inmate sexual assault.
For two, I would argue this is getting more into the atrociousness of the American prison system. This Guardian article [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/feb/21/us-more-men-raped-than-women] raises a good point; both genders experience a dramatic rise in the chances of being a victim of sexual assault, mainly because prison rape is viewed as part of the "justice package." American society dehumanizes its inmates - regardless of gender - to a sickening degree.
Darkmantle said:
If you take out CEO earnings the pay gap drops to a notorious 2-3 percent, and I'm hesitant to believe even that. Most of those studies do it by total, not job by job, and that's a big flaw with the stats.
Um, no. [http://www.aauw.org/learn/research/upload/behindPayGap.pdf]
Check this out:
One year out of college, women working full
time earn only 80 percent as much as their male colleagues
earn.
Even in a female-dominated field like education, men earn more than women, by 5%. Ludicrous, is it not?
But, I mean, even that you need to do something like "take out CEO earnings" - is that not in itself kinda disturbing that not only are the vast majority of men are CEOs, but that they earn so much more than women?
Darkmantle said:
but there are indeed laws! That's what you don't get! we've dealt with those issue because of prejudice in the past. you CANNOT use those instances to prove anything about the situation of today. You would hold this generation responsible for the pasts mistakes. It was unfair back then, I know, but vengeance isn't a good policy.
You miss my point; that there even need to be laws in the first place is what bothers me - that and they're constantly under attack (cf. Wisconsin and Michigan).
I have no idea where you're getting vengeance from. Nonviolent solutions are totes awesome, imo.
Darkmantle said:
it's that the industry is built entirely to please "you", the young single white male. Unrealistic depictions of men and women are there because the industry majority believes that its entire userbase is young men who want to save Ms. Triple-D Tits with their six pack abs and twelve-inch raging erections. That's a problem for both genders
yeah, that is the problem for both genders, and you are never going to be able to fix it unless you ADDRESS both genders. Do you think I liked to be stereotyped by the industry as you have described? that all it takes to please me are big tits and stupid wide shoulders? I try to avoid games like that, because I don't want that.
The Patriarchy Hurts Everyone. Ironically, even when it tries to help.
Darkmantle said:
Men as a rule have it easier than women in all arenas
Nope. Prison rates, male dominated. Suicide rates, up for men. Workplace deaths, up for men (by a lot mind you). Majority of soldiers sent to die over seas, men again. Domestic violence, about even. Child custody cases, men lose.
Ok, sloppy wording, my apologies. What I meant was that men have more resources available to them in general than women. Better employment rates, higher salaries, etc. Acting like men aren't disadvantaged ever - that's dishonest. Male nurses have it pretty fucking rough, for one.
Anyway, going to take your claims one-by-one.
1. Yep, male-dominated, and the majority of them are African-American and Hispanic. This is an interesting place for discussion, but again this gets into the American judicial/prison system (also intersectionality! yay intersectionality)
2. Men successfully commit suicide more, but three times as many women [http://www.suicide.org/suicide-statistics.html] attempt suicide. I remember reading a study some time ago that correlated certain suicide methods with gender - women were more likely to choose nonviolent methods, like swallowing a lot of pills, whereas men were more likely to choose violent methods, like shooting themselves. That would probably explain the gap (pills are definitely more recoverable than gunshot wounds to the head) but I can't back that up.
3. A legitimate problem, I agree with you, directly related to the fact that the most dangerous jobs in America (mining, agriculture, forestry, fishing, and construction industries) are all male-dominated. I would wager this is due to how we socialize these jobs by gender.
4. Oh, I'm actually in the Army, this'll be fun. You do know that the military deploys units, not individuals, right? Women's representation in the military is in the teens [http://iwl.rutgers.edu/documents/njwomencount/Women%20in%20Military%202009%20Final.pdf], and beyond that, women in the military are subject to the Combat Exclusion Policy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_Exclusion_Policy], which prevents them from working in combat roles below the battalion level (used to be brigade, but the pentagon opened it up to battalion a few months ago). Women are not authorized to serve in a fifth of the armed forces.
Speaking of women's representation in the military, did you know that the majority of senior officers come from career branches that women aren't allowed to join? We've actually seen the first female 4-star general in the Army and Air Force in the past four years.
Here's something else that's cool - there has been exactly one woman who's gotten the Medal of Honor, and that was over 100 years ago. Oh, and we've only had two women get a Silver Star since WWII, one during the war in Iraq and one during the war in Afghanistan.
5. General domestic violence, yes. Domestic violence between
intimate partners - women are by far worse off [http://www.dvrc-or.org/domestic/violence/resources/C61/].
6. Interesting, that. The argument is that women are "expected" to be the nurturing one in a relationship, which is an outlook that benefits women in custody cases. I agree, it's a legitimate problem as well.
Darkmantle said:
P.S. Not man hate, man stereotyping, just like I'm sure they don't systematically hate women either, they sure do use stereotypes though. the problem is analytics based game design, where clueless marketing people try to guess what should be in the game to make it sell.
The stereotype being, for depictions of both genders, that "this is what men want to see". It's the difference between a man's dilemma of "I'm not being catered to correctly," versus a woman's dilemma of "I'm not being catered to at all."
But, once again, The Patriarchy Hurts Everyone.