thespectacularspider-girl:

montypla:

thespectacularspider-girl: montypla: poppypicklesticks: montypla: montypla: plebcomics: wage gap:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-hoff-sommers/wage-gap_b_2073804.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/01/no-women-don-t-make-less-money-than-men.html male rape statistics:

http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245 http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/04/male_rape_in_america_a_new_study_reveals_that_men_are_sexually_assaulted.html all of the sites you listed as “sources” are opinions pieces, not actual, factual evidence. i give you a 2/10 because you at least put some effort into your bullshitting. Oh WAIT it’s fucking plebcomics again. Nevermind, you get nothing you piece of shit. Lol, someone’s butthurt Did Pleb-sempai hurt your feelings with a previous comic? Also feminists are the last people on the planet who get to scold others on using opinion pieces as facts, considering most of your “evidence” is links to anecdotes on Tumblr I’d take someone’s actual experiences over someone trying to bullshit something or pulling this strawman crap. And you’re still saying “butthurt”? wow First, this is not a strawman. Strawmanning is the false interpretation of somebody’s argument in order to make it ‘easier’ to knock down, like pushing over a strawman, thus the name. Second, the Huffington Post is referring to a national organization for their article. The Daily Beast link is directly linking to information about the subject. The BJS link is an actual statistics site, the furthest thing from an ‘opinion post’. The Slate link, in the very first line, links to the actual statistics that it uses to discuss the issue. None of those are opinion pieces. They are reports based on facts and then discussed about, which is not what an opinion piece is. Did you even read the links or did you just make wild assumptions? Furthermore, you can’t argue Plebcomic’s point because what she depicted actually happens. In fact, you’re actually promoting what she is saying by proving her right. You, and many others, immediately make assumptions, refuse to read links and factual information, and dig your heels in when provided actual, unbiased statistics that conflict with your worldview. Lastly, if you’re not happy with Plebcomic’s links/sources, simply message Imminentdeathsyndrome here on tumblr and he will provide you a good dozen or so fully backed stats on each. “First, this is not a strawman. Strawmanning is the false interpretation of somebody’s argument in order to make it ‘easier’ to knock down, like pushing over a strawman, thus the name.” Yes. Yes it is. That’s what is happening here. The BJS link does not actually contain anything backing up the points made here. The Slate article’s evidence merely states that men are raped “often”. Taking that to mean “twice as much” is bullshitting an opinion. The two wage gap articles both admit there is a difference, and list the reasons for that difference, and then claim that’s evidence there isn’t one. Again, that’s bullshitting an opinion.

If it is strawmanning may you provide us clarification about what Plebcomics is actually misinterpreting?

Also, please refer to my other post about IDS and getting plenty of links that confirm those statements.

However, on top of that, I’ll battle you on the other links here. The BJS link provides links to their documentation and publications that use their work, so while the BJS link is not a direct link to the information, it is linking you to the ‘hub’, so to speak, allowing you to putter around and find out their stats and numbers.

The Slate Article:

In asking 40,000 households about rape and sexual violence, the survey uncovered that 38 percent of incidents were against men.

A recent analysis of BJS data, for example, turned up that 46 percent of male victims reported a female perpetrator.

The Huffington Post Article:

The Huffpost article discusses that there is a difference in how much men and women make. However, it goes on to discuss the actual reasons why the END RESULT is less pay. In the end, women and men make the same individually, but as a whole and average there is a gap. Why? Because of personal choices by these two demographics.

If you actually read the article (and looked at the sources they actually linked, like the Consad report) you’d have realized this.

All of this smacks of you having a massive bias. You aren’t reading the provided links all the way through, you aren’t looking at the reports they’re citing, you aren’t going into it with an open mind, open to the idea that these might actually be right AND conflict with your viewpoints.

Again, you are just proving Plebcomics right. You are clapping your eyes and ears shut when perfectly good information is being handed to you, where all you have to do is click links and read, and then click the cited reports, and you will have factual data.

But you refuse. I am curious why.