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You mean the guy has to take all of the risk of rejection because women don't approach men. Let's be real here: I've been approached by more gay men than by women in my life. You're saying having to work for something is privilege?
You're really equating risk of rejection versus risk of assault? Seriously?
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You're really equating risk of rejection versus risk of assault? Seriously?
Did you not read my comment? A guy ALSO has the risk of being assaulted. Maybe by the woman, or maybe by her boyfriend.
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Did you not read my comment? A guy ALSO has the risk of being assaulted. Maybe by the woman, or maybe by her boyfriend.
I read your comment. It would have been hard to point out the poor logic – which you repeated unmodified – otherwise.
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You realize this has real and tangible value to lots of folks, right? Despite spending the vast majority of my life on the Internet, every single day I am disappointed by how judgmental and incapable of empathy folks are who say things to other people online. Jesus, put yourself in someone else's shoes just this once . I wouldn't use this service, and I don't know anyone who would, but to say that Invisible Boyfriend…
I was right there with you until you brought up the LGBT bit. This service has no real safety benefits for members of the queer community who are in danger. Full stop..
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I was right there with you until you brought up the LGBT bit. This service has no real safety benefits for members of the queer community who are in danger. Full stop..
Queer person here. This company is clearly riding on the coat tails of the community and doesn't give two shits about us. They are simply marketing themselves this way to tap into a market of closeted people and they decided to play this up to boost revenue. If they were actually concerned with the safety and wellbeing of LGBT folk they would create something that reflects the needs of communities and it would take i…
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I was right there with you until you brought up the LGBT bit. This service has no real safety benefits for members of the queer community who are in danger. Full stop..
Not a full stop whatsoever. You don't just get to say I'm wrong without explaining why.
In fact, maybe in some ways it's worse; some people may _never_ get to a point in their life where it is safe to come out. This is sort of like saying to them "you can't have a real SO because it's not safe; but here, have this fake one to tide you over". Similar to "you can't get married, but you can have this civil union".
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Not a full stop whatsoever. You don't just get to say I'm wrong without explaining why.
In my mind there are two major ways you could keep a queer person in danger safe: 1. educate the would-be aggressors so their bigotry goes away, or 2. keep them physically safe from harm (guards, locks, etc.). This service does neither of those things. In fact, maybe in some ways it's worse; some people may _never_ get to a point in their life where it is safe to come out. This is sort of like saying to them "you can…
Pretending like a man in Iran or Russia can come out as gay and be safe isn't going to change the immutable fact that a gay man in either of those two countries is in serious danger simply by being a gay man.
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The socially-constructed age-cohort you go into is huge too. Want better grades and performance at sports? Be months older than your classmates.
The reverse is true, too: Want better performance than people of the same age? Have had more training than them. I suspect this applies especially to language or logic related tasks. We will likely never find out, variance seems to be extremely high, while the actual differences are very low.
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Video games have always been very interesting this way to me, and there are some real gems lately that manage to tap into very emotional parts of my brain. Fallout is ripe with ethical dilemmas, almost to the point where I found myself unable to proceed when the choice is not obvious. You know the characters are not real, you are alone playing a single-player game; but you can't help but try to figure out how to help…
Only every played the second Fable but I still remember the one choice you need to make near the end and have to pick one of three "fates". Not sure if it's considered a spoiler at this point but there's basically the one option to return a beloved companion to life (after recently being forced to suffer his death in the game). It wasn't necessarily the most logical choice nor is it the "smart" choice if you're treat…