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Car wrote:Thank you for your detailed reply, linguboy. The headline feels like clickbait to me. I could imagine it triggered quite somea number of people.
Car wrote:I thought the South Side was the bad part of Chicago? Is that impression wrong or does it only apply to parts of it?
linguoboy wrote:My first reaction is that that's a shitty headline. The words "cultural appropriation" never appear in the body of the article at all, so they shouldn't feature in the headline in quotes, if at all even.
Car wrote:Thank you for your detailed reply, linguboy. The headline feels like clickbait to me. I could imagine it triggered quite somea number of people.
linguoboy wrote:Car wrote:Thank you for your detailed reply, linguboy. The headline feels like clickbait to me. I could imagine it triggered quite somea number of people.
YMMV, but I prefer to avoid use of the term "triggered" unless actual PTSD is involved.
Car wrote:Thanks for the correction (also to Vijay). I've only seen it used in non-PTSD-related online discussions, but I was hesitant about that whole sentence. Apparently not without a reason. What would be a good choice instead?
Leading psychologists, Paul Hewitt and Gordon Flett have suggested that one of the ways in which younger people are acting differently to their older peers is by showing a greater tendency toward perfectionism.
Broadly speaking, perfectionism is an irrational desire for flawlessness, combined with harsh self-criticism. But on a deeper level, what sets a perfectionist apart from someone who is simply diligent or hard-working is a single-minded need to correct their own imperfections.
linguoboy wrote:If this were just a one-off, it wouldn't indicate much; it could be ascribed to any number of factors specific to this one race. (Apparently some Republicans are saying their candidate lost because of his mustache!) But it's consistent with what's been happening in other special elections across the country. On average, we're seeing a 12 point shift in favour of the Democrats from the last election. That's more than enough for the Democrats to take a majority of House seats in the November midterms. Republican incumbents are seeing the writing on the wall and retiring en masse, which is important because of the advantage incumbency confers.
linguoboy wrote:Back to random politics: The result is still to close to call in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District. At one point, the margin was less than 100 votes. It won't be final until all absentee ballots are counted and even then the loser could demand a recount, but it's obviously a stunning loss for the Republican Party.
Saim wrote:""Millenials"" are lazy and expect participation trophies
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/ ... ung-people
Whoever wrote this incoherent essay wrote:we are finding that our students are increasingly likely to seek our support for mental health issues
JackFrost wrote:the GOP gerrymandered the crap out of my state and just imposed its own drawing
Thanks to those asses, I'm represented by a GOP for the first time ever in my life.
Yasna wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiYudywr_tQ
vijayjohn wrote:Saim wrote:""Millenials"" are lazy and expect participation trophies
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/ ... ung-people
wtf
Yasna wrote:Those armed to the teeth militias are going to be a serious problem when they decide the system must be overthrown.
Johanna wrote:Yasna wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiYudywr_tQ
I'm paraphrasing a bit here, but: "Now [social media] only lets you ask a woman out once" -- "But you know, people change!"
Way to go, trying to be all feminist and still fall on your face so spectacularly.
Saim wrote:Johanna wrote:Yasna wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiYudywr_tQ
I'm paraphrasing a bit here, but: "Now [social media] only lets you ask a woman out once" -- "But you know, people change!"
Isn't this some sort of office policy? In that case, I can't imagine women actually reporting their coworkers for asking them out twice, especially if they have some sort of rapport and it isn't just harassing someone you have no connection with because you think they're hawt. Unless the dude is being a creep about it, in which case let him get in trouble, that's the system working as it should.
Saim wrote:I also don't understand what he means by "we can't pretend that we can make dating painless". I don't think anyone wants it to be painless, we just want people not to be harassed and coerced at their places of work (or anywhere).
I agree, this is really a non-issue.
Saim wrote:Johanna wrote:Way to go, trying to be all feminist and still fall on your face so spectacularly.
Bill Maher has always been a sanctimonious centrist with very little real commitment on progressive issues, IMO. He seems almost like the stereotypical "condescending liberal" that a conservative might conjure up in their mind.
Johanna wrote:Nah, he mentioned Facebook and Google, which are places I suspect men will be reported more often because "being asked out" on those platforms more often translates to "being stalked by a creep" than "that clumsy coworker who doesn't really have a clue but he doesn't mean anything bad".
The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook and Alphabet's Google have a policy stating employees can ask out a coworker just once.
An ambiguous response counts as a "no."
No matter where you work, it's important to know your company's policy on intra-office dating, and to proceed carefully.
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