I have a Dark Elf and a Nord. Completed the game with the Dark Elf, while I’m using the Nord to run around and do all the side quests and such; basically just being as shady a character as I can be.
(Source: therulesofagentleman)
Now that I made my serious post of the day… kittens!
This guy’s a tool.
I’d say more like spot on. Standing up for true equality means standing up for the equality of all people, not just what affects you personally. Anything else isn’t fighting for equality at all, but rather just trying to give yourself a good deal. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing, but pro-women is fundamentally different from pro-equality, and is something many feminists need to be called out on when they claim to be the latter but are actually the former.
He rubs a lot of feminists the wrong way because a lot of feminists have these hypocritical tendencies (and some actually are straight-up sexist against men). I’m generalizing with that statement, and he generalizes quite a bit as well, but the core concept is there.
Perhaps the one thing I’d question is his stance on the existence of patriarchy in the modern day. While he’s generally right that it doesn’t really exist in the first world (which he seems to be addressing North American culture in his statements), I don’t think anyone can argue against the fact that patriarchy still largely exists in some third world countries.
Misdirection, Doublespeak, Non-Answers, And Straight Up Bad Decisions
God bless Danny Sullivan. You should read his latest post tonight in which he tries to squeeze some information — any information — out of Google chairman Eric Schmidt about today’s rather disastrous deep Google+ integration into Google Search. Unfortunately, all he gets are bursts of hot air.
Schmidt tells him that Google would be happy to talk with Twitter and Facebook about integration into the new Search+ features. So why didn’t they do that before, you know, they rolled the feature out? Well, never you mind that. Schmidt refuses to say one way or another if they did or didn’t. “I’m not going to talk about specifics.”
My understanding is that they didn’t. But perhaps more telling is the fact that they didn’t have to.
Both Twitter and Facebook have data that is available to the public. It’s data that Google crawls. It’s data that Google even has some social context for thanks to older Google Profile features, as Sullivan points out.
It’s not all the data inside the walls of Twitter and Facebook — hence the need for firehose deals. But the data Google can get is more than enough for many of the high level features of Search+ — like the “People and Places” box, for example.
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