Comments by "Aaron Rosenberg" (@aaronrosenberg6633) on "TED" channel.

  1. Hey TED! Stop incorporating pop-up boxes before the talk is finished. It's annoying, and in this case, blocks important information. Thank you.
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  2. Lana Voreskova If you can't see that she was not talking only about herself, then you are being willfully ignorant.
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  3. I know a kid, around 18 or 19 years old, who works with an Executive Function Coach. Apparently, he has some issues with his executive function, and his coach is with an organization that works with people with these issues. I felt bad for the kid because even with the help of his coach, he was unable to pass a college course he enrolled in. He didn't show up to class 50% of the time and rarely did his homework. He's a bright kid, too.
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  4. Lana Voreskova " I am certainly not interested in listening to a lot of vapid self obsessed nonsense about someone else's feeeelingz." That must be because you don't understand what human potential is. That means you're empty inside, and for that I truly pity you.
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  5. Define "weak." An important message here is, are you strong enough to be vulnerable? Honesty is a powerful stance, much more powerful than being "manly."
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  6. +viperstrike0 "i dont think sexual preference should be something that brings you pride" I don't think it should have to either. But sometimes when all you're taught is shame, you need pride to balance things out.
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  7. His subject is men. He is emphatically not saying women are perfect. Lack of criticism toward women does not in itself mean he believes that "all women are these flawless angels who do not need to work on themselves." Again, that's your personal inference, based on some bias you hold, about which I cannot know unless you come clean.
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  8. That she lost you is only your own fault. I know astrology is bullshit, but she's intelligent, articulate, and worthwhile despite that comment. Learn to filter.
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  9. +Tyler Wyat Guess you didn't have watch it after seeing the title, did you? And the message you chose to receive was really not their point at all. Seems like some willful ignorance on your part.
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  10. How cool this is. So many LGBTQ people have not only rural roots, but also industrial small-town roots and many other types of roots. Integrating our upbringings into our whole selves can sometimes be a challenge on many levels. Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile speaks to this with great eloquence.
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  11. "he seems to be coming with a perspective that all women are these flawless angels...." I don't think so at all, nor do I think he implies this. I think you infer it.
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  12. Apparently, you do not get it.
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  13. +sukirani Yeah, it's kind of surprising, isn't it? Sad.
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  14. +kreacionista Don't despair. While the internet is full of wonderful new information, it's also where bigots goes to die.
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  15. Who is "we"? I do want what he's proposing. And I think it should start with you.
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  16. foday S You're an idiot, and you completely missed the point of the video. 
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  17. This is what I was thinking, too. When she said that an attacker/abuser can't help but have his life darkened by such actions, I was asking myself, "What about the sociopaths?" Still a great talk, though.
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  18. 0ptikz I think that if a listener has feelings of guilt after listening to this, it's because he has poisoned his own well.
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  19. Troy Nguyen Your fragile ego hurting, little girl? 
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  20. I agree. If it weren't for that pesky delusion of an "afterlife," we'd be in much better shape.
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  21. I do not see hims as trashing men as a gender. He is not saying that being male is inherently bad. He is only speaking of our complicity in our own undoing as well as our historical oppression of women. This is a real thing - toxic masculinity, despite how much people want to ridicule the concept. It can be uncomfortable when a man who's done some serious introspection holds up the mirror to other men. "Guys who go out of their way to get women on their side usually have an ulterior motive." I think that's your personal cynicism talking. "If a woman gave a similar talk where she was claiming only women are the problem...." But there you go again. His talk isn't about "only men being the problem." It's talking about the problems that many men have.
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  22. TED has expanded on its topics. If something doesn't interest you, you're free to not watch it. That's all there is to it. Of course, sniveling about it is what you'd prefer. Carry on.
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  23. ***** A person's gender identity is more than how they look. Women come in all types. 
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  24. Ask them what that actually means. Chances are you can bring it around to being a good human.
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  25. Ah, you only needed something to criticize. She's a unique person - that's original. But the message doesn't have to be original to be new to people. Get it?
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  26. I think he was delving into how his past stuttering problem—for which he was victimized—fed into his reaction to his video's comments. I don't think he's playing victim. I think he's telling us how he overcame being a victim.
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  27. Masculinity doesn't have an immutable definition, and I don't believe he wants to get rid of it anyway. He wants men to be open and comfortable with all facets of their personalities, including the more sensitive and complex ones. If a man is a crane operator but enjoys buying fresh flowers for his home, is he masculine? If a man smells bad, dresses like a slob, curses, but is a fine wine expert, is he masculine? If a man is able to take on a street gang with martial arts and he dresses like a dandy and wears lipstick, what then? Women are attracted to all kinds of men. Heterosexual men with feminine characteristics don't really seem to have a hard time finding women who love them for who they are.
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  28. Nope, not anymore.
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  29. Further, the people with accents often speak more than one language. Americans who mock them—most of them only English speakers—would do well to remember this.
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  30. "Men playing a drum more often is NOT OPPRESSION." See how you twisted that around? She did not say what you said. What she implied was that women have historically been banned from playing the drums. "I swear that feminists are running out of things to complain about. what the heck" Develop an ounce of empathy. What the heck. Hers is a success story, overcoming traditional sexism. Did you not see her smiling, victorious? That must really bother you.
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  31. From the cancer that is toxic masculinity. It's always good to know that these videos reach people, despite their ill-conceived responses.
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  32. ***** Can't see the broader implications? Watch again.
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  33. He was gathering his thoughts, as I saw it. It did not seem dramatic at all, but rather comfortable and easy-going.
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  34. Nope. But I usually notice that people will often cite distorted numbers when they feel their superiority threatened by those they enjoy feeling superior toward.
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  35.  @AUnicorn666  Likely, as Executive Function Disorder (or executive dysfunction) isn't classified as a disability in itself, but stems from other disabilities, at least as my research reveals.
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  36. Had you watched the video, you would see how irrelevant your comment was.
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  37. A desire to brag? Sounds like you decided you don't like the speaker, and based on that have made up some fictions about her.
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  38. Incorrect. The initial post made lots of assumptions. One is that Katlego is worried about having her feelings hurt (or that her feelings are hurt at all). Not sure where Potato was going with that in any case. The other is that Katlego is scorning her current reality. Nothing to show for that. Another is that her home country cannot learn to accept her. Progress comes slowly, but it comes. And the last is, of course, that Katlego embracing her roots is based in a desire to brag. Nothing to show for that. Proverbial Potato has a personal agenda. I don't know what it is, but my initial statement stands.
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  39. But I think this is only because, in the larger perspective, they've been forced by men into those roles.
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  40. 2nd3rd1st Well, okay. It's where bigots fester, in any case.
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  41. " Looking for Finding patterns where non exist is one of the dumbest things we do as a species."
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  42. Did you not hear her "first-date" comment? Do you think it's easy speaking to a TED audience? Your perception of her "self-doubt" is likely your own projection. She's likely just nervous about speaking. And your friends who changed their minds about having kids, seems that their decisions weren't well thought-out to begin with.
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  43. +fahernandezp1 Which people?
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  44. Yes, the speech is it. She's come out, and now everybody knows who she is, and she has nothing to hide. This is a big deal, as she says, because silence has consequences.  Why would you feel that's "absolutely disgusting?" 
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  45. Thank you for that! You helped make her point. There are clearly people in the comment section whose egos are extremely fragile. Tell them that people with disabilities have something to teach them and they just fall apart.
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  46. Matthew Westerfeld It was an improvised performance. Try it sometime, you might have fun.
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  47. "if you really want to continue with this bullshit social justice human diversity thing then make a new youtube channel called: TIP Toxic Identity Politics with virtually no root in real life Stuff about other people I don't understand, don't want to understand, and will never make an effort to understand because I lack the faculty of empathy." Fixed that for you.
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  48. In other words, according to you, "diversity of thought" is not related to diversity of people. Why would you pretend to know what you're talking about?
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  49. While some analogies apply with limitations, yours ends where it begins.
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  50. She's happy with the purpose she's found. Do you believe she shouldn't be? She's smiling. She's not laughing.
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