Layman article on why TPP is bad for the gamers.

http://www.gameskinny.com/pr95r/trans-pacific-partnership-means-more-drm-roms-become-illegal-less-modder-youtuber-fair-use

"The average American in our day can watch Game of Thrones where political elites manipulate their underlings and one another on a daily basis, yet remain ever unable to translate this into the real world."
That is because there is no cure for stupidity yet.

Yeah some good deep geo-political and cultural analysis.

Here Jay Dyer meanders around the <i>SPECTRE</i>* of terr'ism and global domination by secret organizations of evil. Of course, it can't be true, that's just crazy Hollywood stuff, right?

* SPoilers - so go see it. Now!

monkeydelarge
Ah, yes the shadowy elites that secretly control the world. You know, using lingo that's popular with many conspiracy theorists isn't helping you convince this isn't anything but conspiracy theory babel.

Yeah patriarchy is a much more well grounded term to use.

Is that an ad hominem I smell?

Shadowstalker16
Except that patriarchy isn't cabal of well suited men plotting to make life hell for women. It's the result of the fact that humanity has a lot of historical baggage on us. Men being our leaders and being the ones with the power is part of that baggage, and for a while it was felt that should be the norm. Now, things are changing. Now, there have been laws passed in various countries to give women more rights we haven't really unlearned much of what we have learned. There's nothing wrong with shedding some unnecessary baggage.

Thanks for my laugh for the day. My response in song form, from 1964.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7qQ6_RV4VQ&amp;ab_channel=54321p

Bob figured it out FIFTY years ago, please try to catch up.

walpurgis8199

I fail to see your point.

so you're saying logic, reason, merit, freedom & humanity are some of the "unnecessary baggage" you think we should shed as humankind?

It's that these are what I consider vital for us to grow as individuals and as a whole.

If it's something else, please elaborate because it sure looks like those values are the ones under attack to me

Rusty_Gunn
Did I say that logic, reason, merit, freedom & humanity are unnecessary baggage? I don't believe I did. Why even jump to that conclusion? Your reading of what I said says a lot about you. And none of it is faltering.

In Titanic, women and children safety if catered first and the men are left to die.
https://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1c5a0517b0112e83fd82f96f785b66fc?convert_to_webp=true

Why no feminist label that as disgusting and strong, independent women should be left behind to die?

When a couple divorce, why the women is entitled to half the husband income?

Why no feminist label that as disgusting and strong, independent women should give half their salary to their husband?

Why the wife always win in custody to children, and using children, the wife can take the house, even though it is the husband has total claim to the house and solely finance the loan?

Why the wife can make the husband pay for the divorce fees even though the husband don't want to divorce?

I am sure feminist fighting for "equality" would want to correct that, so one sex will not be more equal than another.
I think this summed it up nicely
http://quotesarea.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Girls-have-an-unfair-advantage-over-men.jpg

Of course not all women are like that, but a certain population in women are.

Gnostic
There is so much wrong here that needs to be unpacked that I don't know where to begin.

First of all, what does the Titanic disaster have to do with the existence of patriarchy? And even if you did have some kind of point it is undone by the fact that reason for women and children being the majority of survivors was down to pure chance. The whole "women and children first" thing is a myth. Most likely the result of a miscommunication between Captain Smith, and his officers.

Also there are quiet a few feminists are in favor of no fault divorces as well as many of the other points that have a negative impact on men. If your understanding of feminism is just by going on tumblr, and pointing to those who disagree with you as evil, than you have much to learn my friend.

Also you using a meme to support your argument is kind of pathetic.

For someone who "claims" to have been so pro-GG once upon a time, you sure seem to believe and claim to know a lot about "patriarchy" and "feminism". Somehow I really doubt that claim was true. So is equally so much wrong with what you have to say...

Patriarchy is based on what...10,000 years of oppression of women through some sort of made up male domination? Really, I don't know how women survived so long with the whole world working against them for so many millenia...

I remember my grandmothers, and I don't recall any of them expressing how "oppressed" they were. And my paternal grandmother really wasn't the type of person to "hold back" what she thought. I really think it would be quite hilarious if some of you were to actually talk to your mom and grandparents about your concept of patriarchy. Maybe you'd actually learn something about the real world...

As to the Titanic, maybe you need to read more history. The naval concept of women and children first has been around since the mid-19th century at the very least. But wait, right, you are a feminist and this somehow makes you so eminently qualified to tell others what really happened on the Titanic and how ethnically diverse 13th century Poland was...

I didn't say you did, that's why I asked for you to elaborate (which you didn't) if you weren't talking about those.