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Quote: (*cough*religion*cough*)
cough bollocks cough
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Really? Isn't it the first woman who was created from the rib of a man therefore in debt to us? Or a woman who cast the first sin and expelled us from paradise?
Fast forward to now, we had one political party who had a view that woman should not be able to have publicly leading roles (funny as it's the biggest party in my municipality and we have a woman for mayor, also funny as they also operate nationwide and we had a queen at the time  ). Anyway, it was a Christian party who followed their bible. They had to drop that view though as they were about to lose their government funding as our constitution forbids racism. Luckily our constitution weighs heavier than religion
Wasn't it the church who forbade women from working as they should be at home raising kids?
I won't even start about the rights of women in many Islamic countries.
Mind you that this is all under the banner of religion (whether you think it's the true spirit of that religion is irrelevant).
The opposite might be true, Christians for equal rights etc., but there is no denying that religion has been a source of hate throughout history and continues to be.
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Yes, really. Religion did not create these inequalities. They were already present in the simple reality of life before technology and birth control and all the myriad other changes that make equality a possibility today. The Genesis account is entirely aetiological, seeking to explain what is not to create some new order with the authority of God. Arab strictures about women certainly predate Islam by centuries (after all Islam dates from nearly 600 years after the foundations of Christianity and thousands of years after the origins of Judaism). And, of course, let us remember that the inequalities have been fully maintained for decades in predominantly atheistic cultures around the world.
Unquestionably the, usually spurious, interpretation of religious texts have been used as a weapon in maintaining the status quo but it's by no means the case that religion can be blamed for that status quo arising in the first place or should take the entire blame for any delay in the speed of reform. Anyone familiar with the history of the Middle East, for example, will be aware that the 'rights' of women in the Deuteronomic law far exceeded those of their contemporaries outside Israel and, of course, one is only a Jew at all by virtue of one's mother. Similarly, many of the Pauline strictures that come in for such feminist ire were actually designed to protect women from the shaming and potential arrest which might follow from public display of the new freedoms they enjoyed as Christians. We simply cannot imagine now how utterly scandalous a statement at the time was ...
Quote: There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
And what hasn't been used at some time as such a weapon? Biology, evolutionary theory, politics, history; all have been turned to the keeping of women in their place at some time, without the aid of religion in any form. Your implied thesis that it's all religion's fault just won't wash. Hatred may find religion a convenient companion and justifier but it does not depend on religion for its existence. Just ask anyone who's ever been in the middle of a dispute over a parking space!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: Your implied thesis that it's all religion's fault just won't wash
It's not all religion's fault, it's just the biggest and most widespread (well, I'd say bigotry, but somehow that often manifests itself in the form of religion and there we go again)
Nevermind me, some "sweet" old lady already told me I'd burn an eternity in hell simply for disbelieving. Nothing I do in life, other than believing in Jesus, matters
9082365 wrote: predominantly atheistic cultures
Do those exist? 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Men ... get paid more for the same jobs
That one always confuses me.
It implies that businesses are run by morons, because if women can do the same jobs for less money then surely employing only women would make profits soar. So I guess most business owners are morons.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: businesses are run by morons
What word confuses you? 
To put that in perspective, entire countries are run by morons!
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why does it confuse you?
A well known quote is
"A womans work is never done"
Surely this explains why they get payed less 
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Cornelius Henning wrote: When is International Man's day?
Every other day of the year. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Cornelius Henning wrote: When is International Man's day?
You should ask Richard Herring[^]
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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It's like White History Month... Doesn't exist...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It's also National Pancake Day in the US (at least according to IHOP[^])
Coincidence? I think not...
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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From the limited comments I can read here, I now understand why there are not many woman in our field of work.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Yeah, Cueball needs to send Joanna[^] to the lounge permanently.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yes misogyny is alive and well in our industry.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It was meant to be yesterday...but they took too long getting ready.
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Should they use chromosomes in advertising? Because sex cells.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 8-Mar-16 12:30pm.
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That would be ovakill I think.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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But easy to reproduce, no?
/ravi
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Perhaps, but not ovary so.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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What Eggactly do you mean?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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That could be a really viral campaign.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Ask your X Y.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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