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Notwithstanding the bad publicity for feminism due to many somewhat extremist episodes heavily advertised in social media (something that I wouldn't be surprised to find out being an organized effort at discrediting it), the world is still full of gender inequality -in the sense of women having it worse- and we should still strive for an equal standing.
Women having it worse is a myth. The majority of people in prisons are men. The majority of victims of murder and violent crimes are men. Men are 70% more likely to die from cancer than women. The list goes on and on. So let me ask you. Do you want to live longer or get paid more?
 

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Women having it worse is a myth. The majority of people in prisons are men. The majority of victims of murder and violent crimes are men. Men are 70% more likely to die from cancer than women. The list goes on and on. So let me ask you. Do you want to live longer or get paid more?
The saying "Women get paid 70 cents to the Dollar compared to men" is actually wrong and commonly misunderstood. The statistic is a national average provided by census data. If a woman has the same education, same hours worked, the same position, and equivalent seniority, they are paid the same as male counterparts. It is illegal otherwise and grounds for legal action. This mainly applies to the U.S. as I'm not sure about other countries.
 
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The saying "Women get paid 70 cents to the Dollar compared to men" is actually wrong and commonly misunderstood. The statistic is a national average provided by census data. If a woman has the same education, same hours worked, the same position, and equivalent seniority, they are paid the same as male counterparts. It is illegal otherwise and grounds for legal action. This mainly applies to the U.S. as I'm not sure about other countries.
you're right. but that's one of the first arguments people use to prove inequality for women. Also women are not being genitally mutilated at birth like men are in the world. If they are it's only in remote places of the world and a small fraction compared to the amount of men.
 
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People should stop using America as a synonym for "the western world". America is but just one of a plethora of countries in what modern society calls "the western world", and AFAIK the only one where circumcision is common place.
True, but unless you're using the term 'United States', America can also be taken to mean the Americas, North and South. Which is essentially the entirety of the Western world.
 

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True, but unless you're using the term 'United States', America can be taken to mean the Americas, North and South. Which is essentially the entirety of the Western world.
True, specially touching when I myself come from one of those American countries that is not the USA.
Back there we feel that the USA calling itself America (in disregard of the rest of America) is kind of disrespectful to everybody else... perhaps even cocky or arrogant.
But it is how things are, and instead of going into terminology discussions we just call it America when we speak English and we get on with it.

PS: But that said, most of Europe is also part of what we call "the western world".
 
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People should stop using America as a synonym for "the western world". America is just one of a plethora of countries in what modern society calls "the western world", and AFAIK the only one where circumcision is common place.
I edited out "western" about 10 seconds after I posted it because I realized that it also happens in other places not because I was equating America with the western world. Circumcision is a Jewish ritual and it gets practiced in Israel as well.
 
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you're right. but that's one of the first arguments people use to prove inequality for women. Also women are not being genitally mutilated at birth like men are in the world. If they are it's only in remote places of the world and a small fraction compared to the amount of men.
However, women are more likely to take education paths that are less likely to pay as much. They tend to gravitate towards caretaker oriented majors which include teaching, environmental, and health care. Also, women are less likely to be considered for promotions (about 15% less likely than men). Also, women have less success in negotiating their salaries (Not as assertive as men). Which means that the culture has to change. Women should be encouraged to take on better paying educational paths and jobs should be more inclusive when considering promotions and salary raises. But all this talk about how "men are the problem" is a bunch of BS.
 
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Final Fantasy X-2 is weeabo garbage, as is FFXIII
Final Fantasy V is a better game than IV
I think Super Mario Sunshine is praised way too much, overrated
People who hate Americans for what the government does are all delusional and need to get over it
NES games aren't that great
 

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PS: But that said, most of Europe is also part of what we call "the western world".
Fair enough. I suppose it depends on where the "middle point" is set. Since the Middle East is just East of Europe, I think that makes much of Europe Middle-Earth. Even if that's not true I like calling it that regardless. :lol:

NES games aren't that great
For the most part I agree. There are a few gems, but nearly every concept was later done better on SNES and GBA. To be fair, however, NES was when gaming was in it's infancy, all games had rough edges, a lot even being text-input based. The fact that Nintendo just pulled these ideas and franchises from thin air is still very impressive to this day, and there's nothing like a little old school difficulty occasionally, to check your video game ego.
 
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