Message from @asparkofpyrokravte
Discord ID: 528017080599969792
I forgot about those word limits, that's a pain
Thanks a lot guys. Maybe I can make a 'response squad' tag for you all that I can @ what do you think?
@Anti-Troll Police
Lol
I'm not sure we should think of them as trolls though, might set a bad mood to confront them in.
@billy-goats-gruff? ;)
@Men Are Human we have that in common - I was stuck in a closet to study too because of bullying, altho i was lucky it was where one of the teachers kept her computer that was always logged into the teachers network (late 90s) and i spent that year reading about the other kids and teachers issues (i was a nosey kid) and changing autocorrect so normal words like 'exam' would correct to silly or rude ones
I hid in the library, mainly
People still got to me, though. But it was rarer.
@asparkofpyrokravte forgot about this! Just to check - what do I need to add to that article about equal pay to make it legit? Do I need a citation, or to add "if you live in Ontario anyway" to the beginning?
Search discord for "Justin Trudeau passed the Pay Equity Act of 2018 earlier this year based on an Ontario act of the same name. The Ontario act was presented as being a measure that guarantees equal pay, but when the language of the bill is examined, there’s a caveat- men are actually not protected, and it is not illegal to pay men less. Take a look (move the link here)"
the text I put around that more or less describes the situation
Thanks!
Okay, so this is the new law and we really need to pick over it.
We should not pick over the earlier readings, only the final bill
Yo, can I also have some facts on rape in canada? My teacher says 1 in 5 women (in canada) are raped but I'm sceptical
Ahahaha
Good to be skeptical of that
1/5 just sounds unlikely
who are female
its a more serious crime than breaking into a house, which is a felony. imagine 1/4 people having their homes broken into
it just seems too high
For starters, anyone who hasn't seen Cassie's Harry Crouch interview probably should watch it
he starts going through a whole bunch of misleading and false statistics
At 7:17 of the same video he says " Just women. Just women I guess? That never happens to a guy harassing -- that guy never gets harassed at work. Turning off alarm call that's serious.
Turning off a wall clocks making them late meeting them before a job interview but only women that never happens to a guy. Most people would not even pick this up. I see the significance -- I think somebody mentioned the word brainwashing early on how subtle can it get. So then I say "what's the motivation?". Who are the editors of this book who had to approve these passages"
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You see, the 1 in 5 statistic is one way, and quite often in these sorts of things it only measures the victimization of one gender
That's one of the Mary Koss tricks to creating inflated and misleading stats
right, the source is so questionablr
That and identifying something as "rape" contrary to the victim's perception
At 23:25 Crouch says " It's how they put the questions together. Do you realize a lot of the women in that study [the MS Magazine study] who said they had been raped
went back to live either date the man that supposedly raped them and a lot of a
by their own admission didn't even know was rape"
And actually just slightly before that at 22:56 he says in that video: "There's a big difference between an unscientific one unscientific study from
MS magazine in almost 2,500 academic papers and research studies from social
scientists there's a big difference and if you were to put them on a scale
which way which way do you think that scale would weight?". Cassie responds "Well they probably had scientists doing it" to which Crouch retorts "Actually they didn't, go back and look at the research."
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That sort of methodology has been used in a bunch of actual studies though
so you have to check for that sort of thing
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But on to actual sources, lets see if I can find something credible
I’ve heard in America according to FBI America it is 1 in 1900
According to self-reported victim data from the 2004 GSS on Victimization,
approximately 512,200 Canadians aged 15 and older were the victims of a sexual
assault in the 12 months preceding the survey. Expressed as a rate, there were
1, 977 incidents of sexual assault per 100,000 population aged 15 and older
reported on the 2004 GSS; a rate not statistically different from that of the
1999 GSS (2,058 per 100,000 population).