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  • Is Mathematics Racist?
    How so? God doesn't exist.Hillary

    You don't think that there is a history of numbers and god does not exist, so where did numbers come from.

    And why do you capitalize the name of a none existent being?
  • Is Mathematics Racist?
    Now I am considered racist, while it's white supremacy enforcing math at our schools.Hillary

    Common sense is enforcing math in school, if you cannot use math adequately you are useless to society, so you have math in schools.

    The methods of teaching math might be questionable, but not the need for teaching it.
  • Is Mathematics Racist?
    As if such exists?Hillary

    You don't think god gave us numbers do you?
  • Is Mathematics Racist?
    Just look at the history of math. Mainly white folks.Hillary

    Just look at the true history of numbers, not many of the numbers came from white peoples languages.

    https://education.casio.co.uk/blog/a-brief-history-of-numbers
  • Is Mathematics Racist?
    This caught my eye.

    The Vancouver, Washington, school board director moved to dramatically alter advanced classes because too many white kids were enrolled. He would force the higher achievers into classrooms with underachievers to meet the district's equity commitment.

    I wonder how many black, Latin, or mixed race kids got screwed over there. And how many low achievers improved.
    I don't think that it should be considered discriminatory if the kids that are not doing well in school, many of them for the same reasons, are all put together so that highly trained teacher can work on a single learning level to raise their achievements to a higher standard.

    Kids need to be taught at their level of learning, not some sitting in an office talking bullshit minister's single level of learning ideas. Every kid has his/her own special needs, and they don't get met by over stuffing classrooms with overworked, badly equipped teachers working under some idiots ideas of fairness.
    Working in a classroom that contains many people with different needs is nearly impossible. You end up with everyone except the very high achievers going down.
  • Scientific world view is not the only one ( my thoughts on it )
    Place Richard Dawkins and some Muslim on an island, come back in a week to see who's head was cut off.stoicHoneyBadger

    I am sure he would have loved to spend time talking to any of these

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamic_scholars_described_as_father_or_founder_of_a_field

    Probably because he was not a bigot and I seriously doubt any of them were either.
  • What it takes to be a man (my interpretation)
    Actually my parents raised me in a very hands-off way, so you are projecting here. ;)stoicHoneyBadger

    I guess I must have learned it from you.

    Somehow reading this my imagination draws a picture of 7 year old you being yelled at by your father not to wear a pink shirt. :grin: I think it is time for you to forgive him and move on with your life.stoicHoneyBadger
  • What it takes to be a man (my interpretation)
    Somehow reading this my imagination draws a picture of 7 year old you being yelled at by your father not to wear a pink shirt. :grin: I think it is time for you to forgive him and move on with your life.stoicHoneyBadger

    If he had ever done anything like that I would probably told him to fuck off. But he was a nice person and never participated in such pathetic ideas that boy should not do this and girls should not do that.

    Shame you never had the balls to tell your dad to fuck off. You might have turned out a man with balls instead of a bully asshole crapping on kids.
  • How would you endure most insane prolonged boredom ever possible?
    I spend time listening to audio books. No effort needed except to turn on the app on my phone.
  • What it takes to be a man (my interpretation)
    Parents are wiser, they accumulated some knowledge about how life works, and they should give it to their children in an appropriate way.stoicHoneyBadger

    Yeah, yeah, whatever. If only that were always true.

    Just let the little fuckers wear what ever they want even if it is a pink shirt. As long as the are not wearing it instead of their school shirt.
    Bye, again
  • What it takes to be a man (my interpretation)

    Enough said, I am out of here. You are going to cause your kids to have a hard time later on, best of luck with that.

    Bye.
  • What it takes to be a man (my interpretation)
    I'd say it seems that some teachers, social media, even Disney are more than happy to indoctrinate children into this ideology.stoicHoneyBadger

    So, as someone already asked, if you have seen so much of this indoctrination why are you not gay?
    Oh, I suppose it is because you are too smart to fall for the lies.

    Yet in the same time kids don't have the mental capacity to figure everything out on their own, so their parents experience might come handy.stoicHoneyBadger

    So that gives you the right to tell your boys that the have to act like men and cannot wear pink shirts or dance ballet!
  • What it takes to be a man (my interpretation)
    I'd rather feel sorry for kids, whos parents are thinking up new ideas about gender fludity and such. :)stoicHoneyBadger

    Holy shit, I sort of agree with you about that. But I have never met anyone that has tried to talk their kids into being bi-sexual or gay.

    Where do you think the parents got the ideas from? Most parents are not really happy bout their kids being "different".
    Could it be that the kids come up with the ideas?
    Could it be that these concepts about gender have always been there and no one has ever talked about them, sort of like hiding in a closet type of thing?

    But that still does not make it right for you to push your ideas down your kid's throats. Let them figure out what they want to be and how they want to live their lives. Just because you were force to each a lot of shit does not mean it is OK for you to do the same to them.
  • Sad that I don't like math and engineering
    So you thought that you would feel good about yourself when you completed the courses and it did not work. Maybe you need to try doing something with the knowledge, proving that it has some real value is a good way to feel satisfaction.
  • Sad that I don't like math and engineering
    I doubt that you don't like math, I think you are having difficulty learning it.

    If you are not learning using their methods, you need more help or a lower learning level to start at.

    Look for some basic math courses so that you can get a better base to work on their courses or get someone to tutor you.
  • What it takes to be a man (my interpretation)

    Lesbian -A female homosexual
    Or a woman that likes other women.

    Do you know that you are not a women, or have you not figured it out yet.

    I seriously doubt that you did much thinking about it, or maybe you thinking capacity is very low.


    Your poor kids, I feel so sorry for them.
  • What it takes to be a man (my interpretation)
    What do you mean being a man, can't you identify as whomever you want? :DstoicHoneyBadger

    Are you really not smart enough to understand what I said. Men cannot be lesbians. Identifying as a lesbian could not make me one.

    Jeez, do you need help. :smirk:
  • What it takes to be a man (my interpretation)
    Let me guess, you're in some sort of a lesbian dance therapy studies at USLA? )stoicHoneyBadger

    Being a man, I doubt that they would even let me sign up for anything like that, even if such a thing does exist.

    I believe you are suffering from Ideophobia, Gnosiophobia, Gynephobia, Gelotophobia, Epistemophobia, Centophobia, Atychiphobia, Allodoxaphobia, and the fear of looking like an idiot.

    Either put up some sort of evidence that your method of dragging up kids is the best or just shut up and go away.
    Seriously, no one has any good vibes about the bullshit you are blathering about andsome are beginning to look at you as though you are not quite all there.

    Don't bother replying, I have had enough of your crap already.

    Regards.
  • What it takes to be a man (my interpretation)
    You might wants to re-read what I wrote.stoicHoneyBadger

    You might want to re-read what I wrote, that I could not understand what you tried to say. Or maybe just try to write so that people can understand it.

    As to your question, not so many women are employed because a bunch of bigots think that women should stay at home and that they do not get the education or training needed because it is not offered to women by the same bigots.
  • What it takes to be a man (my interpretation)
    No, I'm not that old. ) Anyway, we had Brezhnev here in the 70's.stoicHoneyBadger

    Repression is contagious, that is probable where you caught it.

    I don't have milk, unfortunately. (stoicHoneyBadger

    Pathetic side stepping the question. you do not need to produce milk to stay at home and look after the kids.


    Than why men get any employment, is women would do the same for 1/3 less? D'ohstoicHoneyBadger

    Whatever! I am not even sure what you are trying to say. But if you think it is alright for women to do the same work for 2/3 the money then you are truly screwed up. Wages should be calculated evenly for everyone based on the productivity of the person not on their gender.

    You are so far out of touch with reality that your kids will one day have to either tell you about it or continue to be embarrassed about your 1600's attitudes.

    Bye.
  • What it takes to be a man (my interpretation)
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  • The Joy of Indolence!
    I am a man that has never harboured any career ambitions and I make no apologies for that.allan wallace

    No apologies necessary either. Do you have any kids?
  • The Joy of Indolence!
    Please do not post videos of this type in the serious areas of the forum, there is a joke section where it might fit better. :grin: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

    Cannot stop laughing at it. He must have studied hard, because it is impossible for anyone to be born that dumb?
  • What it takes to be a man (my interpretation)
    Not necessary, but still there are body and goal differences between boys and girls, which need to be taken into account.stoicHoneyBadger

    The goal differences are not so important any more to many people, there are many men doing traditionally female work and women doing men's work. The reason there are not more of them doing it is because society still disapproves of having to pay equal wages to both for the same work. And in a world were machines do a lot of the heavy work, body differences make less of a reason that before. So to justify what you say it means that the female body is only going to be looked at for breeding purposes.

    Like why would you think that building a career is better, than having kids?stoicHoneyBadger

    I never said one was better than the other, many women have both. And it would be better for the kids if they had two parents capable of supporting them. If your wife wanted to go out and work, leaving you at home with the kids, would you accept that?

    Depends on situation, context, etc. Like would you encourage your son to weak wife's high heels to school? Why not, those are just shoes. :)stoicHoneyBadger

    No, I would not encourage my sons to go to school in high heels, but the same would apply to my daughters as well. Only an idiot would even dream of letting kids go to school in high heels because of the danger involved. And my kids would probably understand the danger and not even think about doing it.
    Do you remember the 60's and 70's?
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    https://www.1stdibs.com/en-gb/fashion/accessories/shoes/mens-original-1970s-glam-rock-band-silver-platform-boots/id-v_110055/

    Gawd, were men really wearing high heels back then? WTF.

    My brother used to were stuff like this.

    Like I say "boys should learn boxing" you replay with "aaa! you wants to leave the girls defenseless!"... wft.stoicHoneyBadger

    Apart from the "she might get hurt and made ugly" or "who wants to look at a muscular girl" excuses what valid reason do you have for excluding girls. Give me one valid reason if you can.
  • A smiling Sissyphus
    All men are born slaves. A baby relies on others to feed it and clothe it, its conception itself is reliant on others. In our physiology hormones/emotions tie us to other people and them to us. Right and wrong is determined by the opinions and tolerances of those around us and our rights, conceptions of self and opinions are constrained by them. As theirs are by us.New2K2

    Being dependent upon or constrained by someone does not make anyone a slave. Sorry about that.
  • What it takes to be a man (my interpretation)
    Well, genders clearly have their differences, such as you wouldn't want to take your daughter to boxing and weightlifting. :)

    Of course. Boys would benefit from boxing & weightlifting. Girls certainly not so much. :) so probably swimming or jiujitsu would do better.
    stoicHoneyBadger

    Actually she did do some, as well as karate. Why should that be a boy only sport?


    Be willing to increase awareness over ignorance, connection over isolation and collaboration over exclusion, at every opportunity. — Possibility


    I guess it is very situation dependent and probably should be goal orientated. i.e. you don't want to include random people just for the sake of it.
    stoicHoneyBadger

    I guess that I still have a bit of the hippy in me, I think that as long as a person has not done something to deserve different treatment (criminals etc.) then everyone should be treated the same. Love and respect for all, no matter the situation.

    Not sure being overly fearful is a good idea, thought...stoicHoneyBadger

    So it is alright for the freaking idiots to climb high buildings to take selfies? To be fearful of danger does not mean to just run away from it, but to take precautions when in dangerous situations. And not do stupid things for fun.

    Why would you use such a derogatory term towards women?stoicHoneyBadger

    That is the way a lot of people see girls, they should not do the things that boys do, they should stay home and have kids. Just the attitude you are showing.

    Do you let your kid wear pink clothes if he wants to? — Sir2u


    Of course not.
    stoicHoneyBadger

    But why not? Is it because of your beliefs about the world or is there another reason. Pink is a color, like so many others, why should a person that wants to wear pink clothes not be allowed to? I have several pink shirts, do you think it makes me less of a man?

    That's how my parents raised me, to be honest not the best approach, as it takes time to figure things out.stoicHoneyBadger

    That is what you have a life for, to figure out what to do with it. Is there really any time limit involved? And most things that need to be figured out cannot be taught by someone else, it is a self learning process.


    Like understanding that you need boxing and starting to learn it when you're almost 40 is harder, than when you're 10. )stoicHoneyBadger

    Jeez, do you really think anyone is dumb enough not to figure out that they need to learn boxing until they are 40? And what if was true, it might be harder to do but if it is something they need to do them they will do it.

    I am sure I can answer for most men. If you prefer dudes, or at least girls that look like dudes, well, that's up to you.stoicHoneyBadger

    So women should look all soft and cuddly? And be bloody useless so that she has to depend on men to defend her. Well, I am so glad you do not speak for me.
    But why should a women that likes to do a bit of boxing have to look like a man? Obviously there are some women that go to extremes about such things and do have a lot of obvious muscles but not all are like that.

    I would say that the merits of boxing is
    1. not being afraid of a physical altercation.
    2. in case of such, being able to knock out your opponent and the confidence that comes with it.
    stoicHoneyBadger

    My daughter could probably kick the shit out of me or any other regular guy, but you would never guess that by looking at her.
    But she still fears danger. Boxing and karate taught her to avoid physical altercations, not to enjoy them. It taught her the discipline necessary to avoid problems. And her confidence comes from knowing she can defend herself, not from having done it.

    You come from a country that has long suffered from the myth of male dominance and by teaching your kids these ideas you are doing at least two very bad things.
    1. perpetuating stupidity and the concept of male dominance
    2. setting life long limits on the range of reasoning and adaptability for the kids
  • What it takes to be a man (my interpretation)
    thinking about the best way to raise my sonstoicHoneyBadger

    So if it was a daughter you would raise her differently from your son?

    Sounds like a bit of a macho attitude.
    Honesty, good reasoning, loyalty to those who deserve it, fear of the dangerous, respect for the living. Things like that are what any and all kids need, not sons are warriors and daughters are breeders. Do you let your kid wear pink clothes if he wants to?
    Teach any kid the basics and let them decide how to live without your expectations forcing them into unwanted paths.
  • What are you listening to right now?
    I wish I still had my Zappa vinyl. Not that I have anything to play it on.jamalrob

    I have a Beatles LP, Please Please Me, hanging on the wall of my office. It is on the Parlophone label and has 14 tracks. It was in almost original condition until we had an earthquake and the part of the house where they were stored got damaged.
    15 years ago I got several of my collection valued, I was offered over $600 for that LP. I did not want to sell it at the time and now it is worthless because the sleeve got torn up. :cry:
  • What are you listening to right now?
    I have not listened to Frank Zappa in maybe 30 years. Now I have to go and dig out my vinyl collection, and find a player.
  • What are you listening to right now?


    There is something about bluegrass fiddles that gets to me.
  • Is Orgasm a Mystical State?
    Is orgasm a mystical state?ZzzoneiroCosm

    I’ve known some women to produce mythical orgasms,Joshs

    I am just so confused I do not have any idea how to answer.
    I guess both could be true.

    But are you only focusing on women?
  • The Last Word
    I hope this post finds you doing well dear friend~ :flower:ArguingWAristotleTiff

    I'm still doing OK dear lady. Been keeping mostly in the background for a while, but still trying to keep up with what is happening to everyone.

    I hope things are getting better for you.
  • The Last Word
    When there is a final post it is hard to know if it is the ultimate word or simply that people have found threads which are more exciting and stimulating.Jack Cummins

    That, I believe, was the original question in the old PF.

    It does happen sometimes that someone puts everyone in the thread straight and that is the end of it. But most threads just peter out after multiple repetitions of the same ideas by several posters and a lack of new input to keep it going.
    You also have the threads were there is no answer to any of the ideas being discussed even though everyone believes they are right.
  • The Last Word
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Alaways
  • The Last Word
    ................................................................................................ Ah, but I do know.
  • The Last Word
    Don't believe that, it could be dangerous.
  • The Last Word
    Shhh you can't type anything here anymore.Ladybug

    I said that a long time ago.

    No one paid any attention to me.
  • The Last Word
    Word...Ladybug

    Four letter noun starting with w and ending with d, has or in the middle.
    A word made up from letter symbols the is used to signify it self.
  • Does God have favorites?
    Isn't everybody?Bitter Crank

    Biggest club in the world. Free membership. :wink: