would you rather have your hair back or have a six pack one is within your control the other is not. for the vast vast majority of people a six pack will improve their standing in society more than hair
Social justice for the bald man
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#52I know the post is satire but using baldness as a feature of villains in movies is surprisingly common still. I noticed it watching Dune recently given that the Harkonnens were not even bald (or specifically entirely hairless) in the books or the 1984 movie. I don't think anyone's arguing that it's the worst injustice anyone faces but it is surprisingly often used as a visual shorthand for people lacking humanity, wh…
Another theme I’ve seen is that games with a bad, brutish, or scary guy as a protagonist tend to have him be bald. My sample size is too small (just my own limited gaming experience) though so this might not be true if I collected data properly.
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#53Up next: Social Justice for the Short Man, for those with a 'country' accent, for the glasses wearers (in the off-seasons for nerdiness), the straight-up unattractive. They are all real, the question we must contend with is: Are all externally imposed, negatively perceived features, protected from measurement/discrimination? What about age? Can you discriminate towards youthfulness if you will, in your time, become o…
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#54The fact that people don’t recognize that and try to argue the merit of the article here makes me scared.
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#57Stakedy is auto-generated by AI. (It’s hard to figure out how, it’s some crazy blockchainy thing.) The fact that people don’t recognize that and try to argue the merit of the article here makes me scared.
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#58would you rather have your hair back or have a six pack one is within your control the other is not. for the vast vast majority of people a six pack will improve their standing in society more than hair
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#59Up next: Social Justice for the Short Man, for those with a 'country' accent, for the glasses wearers (in the off-seasons for nerdiness), the straight-up unattractive. They are all real, the question we must contend with is: Are all externally imposed, negatively perceived features, protected from measurement/discrimination? What about age? Can you discriminate towards youthfulness if you will, in your time, become o…
The height wage gap is bigger than the gender wage gap. Short men are more oppressed than average women and everyone knows it
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is it that in every post about a problem there's this what-about-ism? We can talk about the issue at hand and then the other ones separately.
At some point 'what-about-ism' must become a good faith comparison.