How many men there are on the Trisquel forum?
Greetings to everybody.
A few days ago I wondered how many men are part of the Trisquel's community, what are their stories, experiences, what their main challenges and aspirations, both in the field of free software, of course, the struggle for gender equality too.
So I decided to publish this post in all Trisquel's forums.
Let's see what we find.
Of course, I appreciate your participation.
A hug
I am a member!
I think you meant that the other way around. There are more men than women which make up this community. I'm not sure if your trying to troll here, but if it was ever unclear, everybody is welcome. This group is extremely tolerant. Even the trolls haven't been banned and if you ask me that says a lot.
I'm not a troll, I assure you. And of course, this forum is full of great people.
'Tis merely the ying to the yang-- a reference to http://trisquel.info/en/forum/how-many-women-there-are-trisquel-forum
I don't think Chris saw the original.
I'm pretty sure the tolerance is one of the exact reasons this thread was started, actually.
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Just a bunch of boys playing with plastic gadgets while "real men" are out lifting heavy objects, selling cars, kicking around a leather ball, or writing speeding tickets in-between playing games on their phone.
What about those with metal-chassis laptops?
And my lappie is plastic... *bursts into tears*
are there any countries where men suffer from gender equality?
I don't think so.
I'd say... everywhere. There are several biases and predispositions that favor women (generally for good biological reasons, mind), and some of these have translated into legal rights that women have, but men don't.
One particular example is the right to opt out of parenthood. Women have at least three steps where they can do so: first, they can use birth control to prevent conception. Second, they can abort the fetus. Third, they can offer the child up for adoption. Men, on the other hand, only have that first step. If a condom fails, and a child is conceived, the woman involved can force him to support that child financially, whether he wants the child or not.
There's also gender discrimination favoring women lately, because of social justice warriors trying to "fix" inequities that are caused by differences in average physical fitness and desires between men and women (i.e. jobs that fewer women are capable of doing, and jobs that fewer women want to do). There was an example a few months back of a woman being allowed to join New York's fire department despite failing a test which all firefighters are required to pass:
http://nypost.com/2015/05/03/woman-to-become-ny-firefighter-despite-failing-crucial-fitness-test/
In some countries, such special treatment is actually mandated; there are countries which have established "gender quotas", which effectively force companies to discriminate in favor of less qualified women if the men applying are more qualified (which inevitably happens if there are more men than women to choose from). Again, this is because of social justice warriors trying to "fix" inequities easily explained by the simple fact that women's general predispositions lead them to different things than men's general predispositions.
Of course, I'm not going to look at these inequalities and claim that men are the victims of oppression, unlike social justice warriors who will do so for women. The truth is much more nuanced than that.
I am a member!
Surely both of these threads should be in the Troll Hole? These aren't really Trisquel-related.
I am a translator!
Greetings to everybody.
A few days ago I wondered how many cats are part of the Trisquel's community, what are their stories, experiences, what their main challenges and aspirations, both in the field of free software, of course, the struggle for gender equality too.
So I decided to publish this post in all Trisquel's forums.
Let's see what we find.
Of course, I appreciate your participation.
A hug
Cat Rights!
as the superior race we demand far more rights than humans
thank you
There's at least one, and that's tomlukeywood.
I really want to say: I am a real man, even.
But somehow saying that causes a problem. I know what is causing it and willing to say what that is. But this would have to be done very carefully. Iḿ also sure other people are interested to hear it.
You're a real man if that's who you are.