The One Chinese Policy, everyone is Han Chinese now. Your individuality and your history is to be erased.

They don’t care about it going wrong as long as it goes right often enough. We are no different than the trees to them. Just things.

Good thing YouTube itself is skippable.

The One Chinese Policy.

Because they form their worldview around their own interests, without realizing it. The label of progressive does a lot to assume moral right and inclusiveness which hides biases of self interest. Many of the beleifs people hold were not formed from the effort of reasoning by them but adopted from the authority of progressive ideology. Religion works in much the same way. It takes concerted effort, emotional regulation and sacrifice to build a rational and consistent worldview which is something most people, even progressives, rarely attempt.

Men have so much less reason to fear compared to women.

I do not agree this can be assumed.

Just because one person doesn’t experience something doesn’t invalid that others do, even when a majority do.

What’s so insane about it?

I agree that women have and will likely continue to be, physically vulnerable to larger people, most often from those whom are men, because they more often bigger. Women suffer from this vulnerability in a variety of ways, including sexual assault. That risk, and the severity of the consequences, deserves community effort to mitigate.

Where’s the insane part?

You can’t explain how empathy works and think understanding it is vapid so your beleifs about what is and isn’t possible, how and when, seem highly suspect. How do you know men and women are equally capable of how empathy, or if what is required to encourage it, is present?

Yeah that’s pretty ignorant of them. It might reduce the risk, because the circumstances make it harder to convincingly lie about, but it doesn’t ensure anything. One circumstance of uncertainty and a skilled and motivated individual is all it takes.

I’ve been sexually assaulted multiple times over my life, all by women. I did not conceive of the actions as assault until I heard women’s claims, of the same actions, be accepted as a form of sexual assault. Men absolutely under report their sexual assault, especially as the definition continues to be expand, including more behaviors that men have already dismissed.

Yes. Higher risk of one thing over another does not mean high.

Few of them ever are…which is an example of the point. Stories of men’s experiences are not wanted. So when the topics affecting men are brought up, it’s the closest many get to being heard. Which, of course, they get attacked for. It’s not the place but there is no place so it never gets heard. Seems to me like a little system of censorship and oppression.

Why? Most people, most of the time, focus on the perceived threats to themselves. Men, some subgroup of men in particular, are at a higher risk of false accusations than of sexual assault. What is seen as a danger to them is likely what they’ll focus on. And that’s a very reasonable and fair thing to do. Is that not exactly what women do when they focus on the risk of sexual assault and not on the risk of false accusations?

Both are legitimate fears. Both make sense. Both should be respected but only one actually is, across society.

And I’ve hung out with plenty of men and they’ve never sexually assaulted me…

After a decade of trump you still can’t believe he would say something like this out loud?

No disagreement here.

Yep. Every dollar printed causes inflation. Every dollar destroyed caused deflation. Trump is only interested in creating money for himself and exchanging it for other things of value. The dollar tanking is irrelevant once the money he prints is exchanged for other assets which hold their value against the inflation he’s causing to buy things.

Sounds like it an incredibly important question if you want more empathy in the world.

That is not a task for men. That is a demand from women. If men can only decide to believe based on the trust they have with the speaker then the speaker must earn their trust. It is not men’s responsibility to become trusting of women, just because women want it. If women want men to trust their words then it’s women’s responsibility to gain men’s trust. It would be profoundly unwise of men to believe without either trust or safety. How often do you ever concern yourself with the safety of men? Because from my experiences, those of my male friends and of the media women like most, women ensuring men feel safe enough to trust is not a concept that rarely ever appears, nevermind it being respected when it does.