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Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Post by gcp »

l33tbro wrote: post #49
DanielleMolloy wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know that plenty of these people exist. But the anti-fem crowd outweighs them right now, once more. At least when looking at these votes. This is worrying since, after all, this shapes the discussion, the atmosphere here and the minds of people with yet to stabilize opinions.

I, probably like a lot of others, took this post as a tongue-in-cheek joke. I think we're all mature enough to handle it, as the humour comes from how offensive the joke is and not from some universal truth behind the statement. If it actually was meant as a serious comment and is being upvoted, then that's truly fucked up and would make me seriously question this forum. But I'm giving benefit of the doubt.

Take a look at the posting history of OP to get an idea.

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Post by woliveirajr »

marvin wrote: post #18

Humans do this too, on occasion. Apart from the obvious but difficult-to-verify night club anecdotes, here's a well-known historical example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_feather#World_War_I

One example:

> (...) once again stated that she was related to the two boys simultaneously and that at one point she told the murderer that his sexual performance was inferior to that of the victim.

If you can read portuguese, or is willing to try some online translation, you can go to:

http://g1.globo.com/sp/santos-regiao/noticia/2016/10/pivo-da...

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

#103

Post by tveita »

marvin wrote: post #18

Humans do this too, on occasion. Apart from the obvious but difficult-to-verify night club anecdotes, here's a well-known historical example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_feather#World_War_I

They're both examples of social pressure, but the vervet monkeys presumably weren't subject to propaganda from military leaders, and the human woman certainly didn't have any kind of feather-presenting instinct.

I think the gender angle is not as interesting as the cultural one.

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

#104

Post by [deleted] »

DanielleMolloy wrote: post #97
75j wrote: post #75

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You do it. You're the one making the claim. I've been on HN like 8 years and I'm wondering what you mean too.

He won't. He is very afraid that his perception is indeed skewed and that he may actually learn something. Just like some other commenters in this branch.

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Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

#106

Post by midgetjones »

da1 wrote: post #87

> I've been on HN like 8 years curious because your profile says > created: 16 days ago Thank you for confirming you are using a sock-puppet account! (Edit: While apparently using your main account to down-vote. Classy!)

'Apparently' how? Because you're being downvoted? I doubt, even if it is a sockpuppet account (which incidentally has amassed four times the karma you have), that they are the only one downvoting you.

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

#107

Post by gcp »

DanielleMolloy wrote: post #98
douche wrote: post #56

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Complaining about downvoting is never productive. They are just internet points.

Internet points that prove the point. And, as predicted, most of my comments are [flagged] now. Do you see the little story this tells?

Don't worry tomorrow it will be forgotten and we'll have another thread lamenting that the main problem of today's society is the evil tech giants that promote opinion bubbles.

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Post by coderdude »

midgetjones wrote: post #106
da1 wrote: post #87

> I've been on HN like 8 years curious because your profile says > created: 16 days ago Thank you for confirming you are using a sock-puppet account! (Edit: While apparently using your main account to down-vote. Classy!)

'Apparently' how? Because you're being downvoted? I doubt, even if it is a sockpuppet account (which incidentally has amassed four times the karma you have), that they are the only one downvoting you.

He's saying that because the person who says they've been here for 8 years registered 16 days ago. As if, in 8 years of Inflammatory HN commentary, only just now did they decide to stop lurking. And only just now did they become so vocal about what matters to them.

That's my interpretation. It could also mean the more obvious, "I've been here for 8 years but under a different name."

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Post by [deleted] »

75j wrote: post #75
coderdude wrote: post #71

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You can do the work for yourself and search HN. I'm not going to sift through it all. If you're actually interested in knowing, take a few minutes.

You do it. You're the one making the claim. I've been on HN like 8 years and I'm wondering what you mean too.

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Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

#110

Post by saiya-jin »

scandox wrote: post #83
raducu wrote: post #43

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The joke is we're primates too, and human females do this all of the time, you can see this in the motif of two heros(one "good" and the other "bad") fighting for a female, "golddigger" being most of the time attributed to the female, to the psychological game called "Rapo" where a female entices a particular male's attention so that another male would fight the first male, and so an and so on. The joke is believing…

You know I could be tricksy but I'll answer you straight. Even if I thoroughly believed the rather reductive propositions you make about male/female biology, I would still disagree with your conclusions. You seem to want it both ways: you assert men are naturally violent, women are naturally manipulative, therefore we should accept this state of affairs and not be dishonest about it. At the same time you want us to r…

> Has it ever occurred to you that Political Correctness acts as training wheels for people who are exhibiting bad natural behaviours?

I get your points, but I disagree on this one. How people adapt to be perceived by others on the surface - I couldn't care less about that. When they are rotten deep inside, broken and shattered to pieces - no matter how many correctness masks they put on, they are still same piece of s__t. I'll rather know straight upfront who I am dealing with, life is much easier.

So yeah, PC is evil for me. Noble goals for sure, worst possible implementation how to get there.

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