The Red Cross is really, really sorry! I got an apology from them in my email today (I’m on their list because I have donated and never bothered to unsubscribe).
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I actually take their apology seriously (in contrast to a very large number of other public apologies). I bet people who approved that poster are feeling genuinely mortified.
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You’re super awesome at discussing things. So, SO glad we got your nuanced and deftly written opinion on the matter at hand.
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FTW!
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I take it that my ‘adjustment’ was a success.
*lolz
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Aww, you tell us. That’s one of the biggest differences!
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Well, I don’t feel the need to go all ‘Regina George’ on that ass nearly as much as I used to on other forums, and that’s a good thing.
And now, 85% of the time if I have a disagreement with someone, it ends when the conversation ends, and most of the members here are mature enough to just move on, and not carry any “grudges” over into other discussions.
That’s the most welcome difference of all for me.
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Oui, c’est sans doute exprimé comme ça dans le texte original : « something something ».
I meant that I’m willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, trying to see their reasons. Not everyone is a trolley, a lot of people just need to learn or listen.
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Yep, I think you’ve hit the nail on the head here.
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What, you don’t think the Icelandic one about not blowdrying your junk is interesting?
This is such a misleading statistic. Men get killed much more often, but that is no real problem if it isn’t done majorly by women? Who cares about the fuckers, right? We can even pretend that they are the same hivemind, so one of them killing the other doesn’t count, even if there are a million relevant other axes of opression in play there. Bravo for being callous as fuck.
“According to the data given by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,
worldwide, 78.7% of homicide victims are male, and in 193 of the 202
listed countries or regions, males were more likely to be killed than
females. In two, the ratio was 50:50 (Swaziland and British Virgin Islands), and in the remaining 7; Tonga, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Latvia and Hong Kong, females were more likely to be victims of homicides compared to males.[1] A 2013 global study on homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that males accounted for about 96 percent of all homicide perpetrators worldwide [2] and 79% of the victims (see the chart below).” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_statistics_by_gender
The FBI says "Of the 12,996 murder victims in 2010 for which supplemental data were received, most (77.4 percent) were male. (Based on Expanded Homicide Data Table 1.) " https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded/expandhomicidemain
I don’t think you read @anon67050589’s post correctly. The post read that women are more likely to be harmed or killed by men (i.e., not by other women), whereas men are likely to be harmed by other men (i.e., not by women). @anon67050589 never wrote that women are more likely to be killed than men.
(I would quote the post, but either Discourse or Chrome is not allowing me to do so at this moment. Grrr.)
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But most of the time they kill other men, so the important point to remember is that they’re victims, right?
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Woah, they’re just like…white people!
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Remember, it doesn’t matter what a woman says, but what a man perceives has been said…which is, of course, always about men.
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