Comments by "SepherStar" (@SepherStar) on "VICE Life"
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***** No, men don't age like wine. 20 something doesn't want to date grandpa.
What's the problem anyway? Are you upset because the girls you wanted rejected you and now you are taking it out on older single women like they are the ones who rejected you once upon a time? Well new flash for you, those hot young thangs who rejected you are probably happily married by now and the women you are attacking are likely the ones you never asked out, or are the female equivalent of you. Is that why you are unhappy? The women who are left are the ones YOU rejected, and you are mad you can't get the ones you wanted, so you attack the ones you didn't want? Who would want a person like that.
You see here, I don't buy for a second that no one would have had you, and I think you probably still can find someone with whom you could have a happy relationship, if you manage to get over yourself.
Maybe it's a natural selection thing but it seems to me that you are doing everything in your power to make sure you remain single, by not only rejecting the pool of women available to you, but making sure that you are unattractive to them.
Girls reject guys by saying no and guys reject girls by not asking them to begin with. I bet you never thought of it that way, did you?
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Gabriel Lewicki That's the fantasy isn't it? It's always easier to think you are the one who doesn't want them, rather than they you, but when a person really doesn't want something, they don't think about it, or come online and rant about it. It's a non issue for them. For example, I don't care about being an Olympian, and I'm not much for sports, so I rarely, if ever, talk about sports or the Olympics. The fact of the matter is, most of these men who come online and rant about women do so because they want women and have a difficult time getting them. Sometimes these men have social deficits. Sometimes these men are on the unfortunate side of statistics. Sometimes these men do not meet some social standard, and sometimes these men literally don't have a female counterpart because of skewed sex ratios.
If a person has difficulty obtaining or maintaining relationships, and this causes them distress, they should seek counseling and attempt to improve their social skills, rather than self isolate and direct negative emotions at that which they have difficulty obtaining. When they self isolate and spew hatred, they sell themselves short and drop any chance they might have had of a happy relationship with another person, to zero.
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Sage Thinker You have the nerve to ignore all of the contributions a woman makes, and all of her sacrifices, and devalue the traditional role of a woman and ignore it's importance. A woman brought you into this world and if you are like most people, a woman put your needs above her own, taught you not to eat dirt, taught you how to feed yourself, and not to sh!t your pants. What a woman did to you to make you so bitter towards them, I don't know, but I would not be surprised if the kind deeds of 1,000,000 women go ignored by you and cruel deeds of 1 would be that which you judge all women by. I have respect for men and their contributions, you can have respect for women and theirs.
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Sage Thinker But speaking of easy office job, my sister's husband has an office job. He goes to work and works at his desk at his office job. My sister is a chef, and a wet nurse, and works as a nanny, during the day and at night, and she is a buyer, she buys all of the supplies for the house, and a currier because she often has to go get them herself. She is also a personal assistant...she does the laundry and runs all of the errands and makes all of the appointments. She also is a taxi driver, taking the kids everywhere and occasionally driving her husband too and from work, and she also is a maid on top of this, cleaning the entire house, and she does each one of these jobs full time. If you keep ignoring and devaluing the role of women in society, of course you are going to be miserable and resentful and think you as a man have to do all of the work, when you in your traditional role work one job and a woman in her traditional role works 9 jobs. And sometimes she also works outside of the home to help her husband make ends meet, making that 10 jobs.
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Sage Thinker I would like to point out some things for you to think about.
1. You hate feminism but consistently hold equal contempt for women in traditional roles, the contributions of which you devalue or ignore.
2. You have made claims about tribal societies, which, for the most part, are incorrect, suggesting you have spoken on a matter you have not taken the time to educate yourself on. In addition, instead of admitting you might have spoken too soon, you attempted to change the context from tribal societies to modern societies to cover yourself, as if that would not be apparent to everyone.
3. Your belief that a woman is merely a vessel in which to incubate a baby flies in the face of the most basic of scientific knowledge, and to be honest, I'm confounded by this, because that half of our nuclear DNA, and all of our mitichondrial DNA comes from out mothers, is something that I imagine should be taught in elementary school, or middle school at the latest.
I do not mean to sound condescending but I worry sir that your views of the world are based on your ignorance of it and I implore you to challenge your perceptions, be open to the idea that you might be wrong, and educate yourself.
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Sage Thinker Have you never read a biology book or taken a science class? A person inherits 50% of their nuclear DNA from their mother, and 50% of their nuclear DNA from their father, and 100% of their mitichondrial DNA from their mother. The sperm contains 23 chromosomes with the fathers genes, the egg contains 23 chromosomes with the mother's genes, and the mitichrondrial DNA, and this is what you are made out of.
Though it's not relevant to the conversation, and should not be seen as any claim that one sex is superior to the other, you might find it interesting to know that you do not actually need a sperm to replicate an organism, but you do need an egg. In the process by which an animal is cloned, nuclear DNA from a cell is implanted into an egg or an egg with it's own nuclear DNA removed...depending, and this will develop in a similar fashion as a naturally fertilized egg. Some species also have virgin births by different biological processes depending on the species.
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Sage Thinker This article does not support your claim that most wars in history were started by women. It found a 27% increase in wars in Europe when countries were headed by Queen reginas. A queen regina is a queen who was the daughter of a ruling king, and ascended the throne, and thus becomes the head of state, and takes on the duties of a ruling King. The article states that countries more often attacked the countries of these Queens when they were single, as opposed to married, which may be one factor in the increase in wars, and also that when these Queens were married,they tended to divide their responsibilities with their husbands, allowing them to more effectively pursue foreign policies. In short, it's speculated that the increase in wars was due to the fact that single ruling Queens were more likely to have their countries attacked, and married ruling Queens were more likely to have the administrative resources to launch effective military actions.
It in no way supports your claim that most wars were started by women, because the article talks about Europe, not the world, a small time from, not most of human history, and if her country was attacked, she didn't start the war.
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Sage Thinker Far from most women die as a result of pregnancy. The highest maternal mortality rate is found in Sierra Leon, where most women don't have access to modern medical care. It has a rate of about 1,360 deaths per 100,000 pregnancies. That means, if the country had 100,000 pregnant women, 1.36% would die as a result of pregnancy. Even in instances where the mother dies, it's rarely the men who are left to care for the child. It's usually a female relative. If no female relative is able to care for the child, the child often ends up in an orphanage. Even if the man did stay at home and care for the child, he would then be filling a woman's traditional role. People did not starve in Europe because many of the men had been killed in war. People starved in Europe because all of the food went to feed the men fighting the war and you can't plant crops when a war is being fought in your field and your town is being bombed.
Yep, most farmers and fishermen today are men, but as I said, in tribal societies, women in their traditional roles farmed and gathered.
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Sage Thinker In tribal societies, that's not actually true except in a small number of hunter gatherer societies which exist in areas that vegetation is scarce. In most hunter gatherer societies, women provide the majority of food by gardening and gathering. In some of these societies, women and men both may participate in hunting if the society uses netting techniques that require animals be scared out of bushes. Hunting with weapons is something that is primarily a male activity, and while this brings in prized protein sources, they do not comprise the majority of the food supply. Most tribal societies, however, are not hunter gatherers but pastoralists. Most of their food is in the form of dairy, and sometimes blood, or meat from their livestock. In these societies men often only have two responsibilities, and those are to shepherd the livestock and occasionally slaughter them, while the women gather the firewood, fetch the water, build the houses, make the clothes and jewelry, milk the animals, process and cook food, and feed the children and look after them. These are primarily African tribal societies. In Amazonian tribal societies, they are not pastoralists and the division of the labor is a little more even, with men building the houses and assisting more in gardening and food processing.
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Sage Thinker English class in the US is critical thinking and comprehension. It's the ability to understand situations and what is being communicated. Course work often entails reading essays and stories and analyzing them, and writing essays that clearly and concisely articulate that which you wish to communicate. The skills stressed in mandatory American English classes are integral to being able to understand and navigate the world, even in STEM fields.
I would not say STEM fields are "hard", though for most they are certainly time intensive. What actually makes something easy or difficult is how well your brain is wired for it. Some people excel more at mathematics than essay writing, and would say mathematics is the easier of the two fields, and some people excel more at essay writing, and would say that is the easier of the two fields (By the way, the prestige of STEM professor in academia is measured by the number of papers he or she has published, and the amount of grant money, which is obtained through written proposals, he or she can obtain). If a woman excels at a STEM field then she excels at a STEM field, and there would be no reason to exclude her from it based on her sex alone.
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Mark Rudy I believe you are referring to the paper called "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness" http://www.nber.org/papers/w14969.pdf
I don't have time to read the paper thoroughly but if I read correctly, the decline in female happiness was across the board....single working women and married female home makers both had a decline in happiness, and the study could not pinpoint the cause, but rejected various theories on it. They did speculate though that the lives of women have become increasingly more complex and that women might feel they have to meet more standards than in the past. Or it could be that society in general is less happy and women are just more forthcoming with this, or it could have been sample selection bias in that they are just not looking in the right places for unhappy men.
I seem to come across disproportionately more unhappy men on the internet than I do women. They are usually unhappy that they are single, or have had a bad relationship. I think men actually get more lonely when they are single than women, which is part of the reason I think it's unfortunate that some single older men are not receptive to dating women closer to their age. I'm not saying they should date a woman they find unattractive...it's imperative they be attracted to her, but they are often looking for women in venues where they do not have a chance to interact with her in person, and there are often dimensions of attraction that only come across in person. They are looking for women on venues that you type an age range in a box, and they might be preventing themselves from meeting a woman they would find attractive and are compatible with, by the number they enter into that box.
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Sage Thinker Elizabeth Báthory? You are really reaching now. But only one of us has to dredge up obscure people from history, or vaguely related articles on small, obscure tribes in the rain forest, and attempt to spin it to make potential exceptions into the generalized case. Since you are so inclined to do so anyway, look up photos and videos of ISIS, wars, and whatever battles and militant groups please you. When the majority of the people in those videos gathering in groups and waving guns and swords and launching rockets at and destroying cities like Homs and Damascus (which have been destroyed many times over by armies of men for centuries), are women, you will be correct in your assertion. When the history books talk primarily about armies of 100,000 of women, overthrowing whatever army of other women, and sacking cities, you will be correct in your assertion, but the people in all of these scenarios are not women, but men. Understand, this is not attempting to paint men as bad people, or proclaim that all, or even most men are horribly violent...most men are law abiding citizens. It is just the fact of our species, that like most other mammalian species, the males are more inclined to physical violence than the females. It was not evolutionarily favorable for the females of our species to be as inclined towards physical violence because of her role as primary care giver. It's more favorable for a woman to defuse a situation or use passive aggression.
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