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@BrennaKadavsky

And honestly, maybe telling men that everything they're earning is only given to them because of their gender is a kind of discrimination. It's telling them that nothing they're personally good at matters, because the world only gives them privileges because of their gender, not talent.

Well I mean it’s true. I’m not trying to be hurtful. It’s just facts. If anything it’s more hurtful towards women because it doesn’t matter whether we’re better or equal than men at our jobs, we’ll always be paid less. Just something to think about

The facts can hurt either side, I guess. But you make a good point, (And my not adult self hasn't encountered a lot of that kind of thing, but I've heard of it)

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@V01DtheFae group

The Giver is a classic, I love it so much.

i loved the book and the movie faves language arts read

There's a really neat graphic novel that just came out for it!

i would read it

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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh

I came across an interesting subject to discuss.

Thoughts on population control? Specifically policies that would limit how many children a couple could have. (Biologically or non biologically) For example, China (I believe. Don't quote me on this), implemented a policy that couples could only have one (or was it two? idr) child. This led to an increase in infant mortality because people would kill off the 'extra' children, especially if they were girls.

Discuss.

@BrennaKadavsky

I can understand being concerned about the amount of people increasing, but like… Limiting children? That's really just awful.

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What about the gender gap?…

I'm waiting on an actual explanation. :P

@V01DtheFae group

I can understand being concerned about the amount of people increasing, but like… Limiting children? That's really just awful.

yeah and i was gonna get a summer job DANG

Deleted user

I can understand being concerned about the amount of people increasing, but like… Limiting children? That's really just awful.

How else would you regulate the population aside from controlling how many children a couple can have?

Deleted user

I can understand being concerned about the amount of people increasing, but like… Limiting children? That's really just awful.

yeah and i was gonna get a summer job DANG

Loki– second warning.

@BrennaKadavsky

I agree it's awful but you could relatively easily argue its necessity

Exactly. That's why I'm not really comfortable debating it, because both sides make sense. It's just a moral thing, but even then. Limiting/killing children is obviously bad, but limiting the population is kind of important. So maybe there's a better method out there?

@amber_is_in_a_loop

I agree it's awful but you could relatively easily argue its necessity

Exactly. That's why I'm not really comfortable debating it, because both sides make sense. It's just a moral thing, but even then. Limiting/killing children is obviously bad, but limiting the population is kind of important. So maybe there's a better method out there?

There very well could be, but until it's found and implemented, I would have to argue for child control.
But yeah, find another method that's less morally charged and I have nothing but respect for you

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Oh no no no, you misunderstand. I only included the tidbit about China as an example of population control. We do not have to discuss the killing of children, obviously that is horrid.

I only meant to discuss population control in general. For or against. Ways it could be done…etc.

Sorry for the confusion! D:

@Althalosian-is-the-father book

So the gender age gap is largely false. The biggest reason is that it is simply the money women make vs the money men make.

Do you see the flaw? Far fewer women work than men. This really skews the numbers.

@BrennaKadavsky

It is not necessary. I read a study that concluded that all the worlds population could fit in Texas at less than the density of New York.

That… sounds pretty impossible. Could you link the study?

@The-N-U-T-Cracker

I think you have a pretty good understanding of the difficulties of your father's job, but I don't know if you fully understand how hard it is for your mother. And maybe you realize how hard it is for her, but maybe not for most mothers. Mother's don't get paid, most have to go through an extremely difficult and body-ruining process to become a mother (or they have to go through the really really difficult adoption process) to children who are definitely going to be rude to her and are definitely going to hurt her (whether intentionally or unintentionally) at one point at the very very least.

Plus cleaning and cooking and raising children are no easy feats, and I think that you should acknowledge more how hard being a mother is.

I'm aware of how hard it is, and I wasn't trying to make it sound like mothers have it easy. I have a mile-long list of nightmare stories from babysitting my younger siblings, and I usually only have to watch them maybe once a month. It's especially difficult since one of my brothers has anger issues and has tried to punch, kick, and attack me multiple times, usually over small things, and refuses to listen to anyone but my mom.
Watching/caring for small children is a truly difficult task that not everyone is capable of doing well, and I have loads of respect for all the people who can.

What I was trying to show with the whole "Oh, she has to cook, boo hoo"/"women are only expected to care for their children, while men have to do all this" thing was how ridiculous and offensive the "Men have it easy, all they do is sit around at a desk working, poor them" argument that I've seen on the internet truly is, although I really didn't make that clear enough at all 😅 and instead ended up sounding like a terrible person


Thoughts on population control? Specifically, policies that would limit how many children a couple could have. (Biologically or non biologically) For example, China (I believe. Don't quote me on this), implemented a policy that couples could only have one (or was it two? IDR) child. This led to an increase in infant mortality because people would kill off the 'extra' children, especially if they were girls.

I don't have much of a thought on this other than killing off smol babies to stop overpopulation is messed up, however, that's something we seem to have all agreed on.

Deleted user

So the gender age gap is largely false. The biggest reason is that it is simply the money women make vs the money men make.

Do you see the flaw? Far fewer women work than men. This really skews the numbers.

It shouldn't matter the amount of women that work. They should still get equal pay, which they do not, the gap it only increases when you factor in race discrimination.

@ElderGodSwimwithGamers group

So the gender age gap is largely false. The biggest reason is that it is simply the money women make vs the money men make.

Do you see the flaw? Far fewer women work than men. This really skews the numbers.

It shouldn't matter the amount of women that work. They should still get equal pay, which they do not, the gap it only increases when you factor in race discrimination.

But they calculate the wage gap based on total earnings, so having fewer women working really does skew the numbers.

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http://www.firetown.com/2010/12/03/the-overpopulation-myth-the-entire-world-population-could-fit-into-the-state-of-texas/

Interesting point, but just because the world population can possibly fit in Texas back in 2010 doesn't mean it always will be. The author mentioned that the population was about 6.8 billion, correct? Well in 9 years the population has increased to 7.7 billion people. If humanity keeps growing at this rate we will run out of resources. Population control (done properly & morally) has benefits including resource management, health/mortality increased, and economic turn around for citizens.

Deleted user

So the gender age gap is largely false. The biggest reason is that it is simply the money women make vs the money men make.

Do you see the flaw? Far fewer women work than men. This really skews the numbers.

It shouldn't matter the amount of women that work. They should still get equal pay, which they do not, the gap it only increases when you factor in race discrimination.

But they calculate the wage gap based on total earnings, so having fewer women working really does skew the numbers.

Factor in the sexism that is still taught to generations of young women as Nutella brought up. "Women shouldn't work because they will marry a man who will do all the work for them." Women are constantly being put down and not hired for jobs they are fully capable of, because they are seen as weaker and not as intelligent as men. Women want to provide and care for themselves and their families just as much as men. If they were given equal opportunity, I'm sure those numbers would increase.

But all that doesn't matter because even two people working the same job right now, the women would be making less than the man. If women made the exact same as men there wouldn't be any gap intelligible in any study, no matter how many women or men work. It would just be the same.