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'''Implied meaning from feminist in that context''': 'In that situation 80%+ of the men would be unworthy of women, and that would be just'<br><br> | '''Implied meaning from feminist in that context''': 'In that situation 80%+ of the men would be unworthy of women, and that would be just'<br><br> | ||
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==SlateStarCodex response to this phrase== | |||
{{Quote|And he was getting a little philosophical about it, and he asked – I’m paraphrasing here – why haven’t things worked out for me? I’m hard-working, I’ve never missed a day of work until now, I’ve always given a hundred and ten percent. And meanwhile, I see all these rich white guys (“no offense, doctor,” he added, clearly overestimating the salary of a medical resident) who kind of coast through school, coast into college, end up with 9 – 4 desk jobs working for a friend of their father’s with excellent salaries and benefits, and if they need to miss a couple of days of work, whether it’s for a hospitalization or just to go on a cruise, nobody questions it one way or the other. I’m a harder worker than they are, he said – and I believed him – so how is that fair? | |||
And of course, like most of the people I deal with at my job, there’s no good answer except maybe restructuring society from the ground up, so I gave him some platitudes about how it’s not his fault, told him about all the social services available to him, and gave him a pill to treat a biochemical condition almost completely orthogonal to his real problem. | |||
And I’m still not sure what a good response to his question would have been. But later that night I was browsing the Internet and I was reminded of what the worse response humanly possible. It would go something like: | |||
"You keep whining about how “unfair” it is that you can’t get a good job. “But I’m such a hard worker.” No, actual hard workers don’t feel like they’re entitled to other people’s money just because they ask nicely." | |||
Such a response would be so antisocial and unjust that it could only possibly come from the social justice [warrior] movement.|Slatestarcodex}} | |||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||