ShrimpCurler

@ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women go from homeless to 'tiny home' owners with a once-in-a-lifetime deal⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe bigotry is the wrong word in this case, but maybe not. Either way it’s still discriminating based on an unchangeable characteristic of those people. I’d be equally annoyed if they targeted men or a specific race or an eye colour. I just think that when you try to help people, you should try to discriminate on circumstance, not things like race or gender. And we should be calling it out so people can do better in the future.

  I do know there is a lot of correlation between gender and circumstance, but I think it’s either lazy to use gender as a proxy or they really are bigoted.

  On the other hand I would still like to give them props for helping people in a significant way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women go from homeless to 'tiny home' owners with a once-in-a-lifetime deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish these kinds of services could target specific at risk groups, not a gender.

  I would be happy if it was focused on homeless parents with young children, or homeless victims of family violence. With those things they might still end up getting only women, but at least they’d be selected based on their situation instead of bigotry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many primary school kids will never have a male teacher, and experts say that's a problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a couple months ago I was giving snacks to my kids by a river, with one of them on my lap. Then a lady started yelling across the river, saying I was suspicious and asking my son if I was really his dad… It changed a really nice moment into something horrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many primary school kids will never have a male teacher, and experts say that's a problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good list, except I would have thought that number 4 is an important responsibility for teachers? Probably the most important thing kids need to learn is how to behave in an acceptable manner. We can’t rely on all parents to be able to do that unless we start putting draconian restrictions on parenting. So, it has to be part of teachers jobs.

  Maybe there just needs to be better processes in place to handle problematic children, especially in high school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choking during sex: many young people mistakenly believe it can be done safely, our study shows⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My first thought here was “is this person insane?” but I was thinking root as roots of a plant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women earn 78 cents for every $1 men paid on average.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is the extremely important work of early childcare and teaching not valued as highly as banking or mine working?

  This, I think is one of the biggest issues. But, it’s not caused by employers discriminating against women. It’s also not something individual companies can solve. I think it’s an inherent flaw in our capitalist society. Caring for rich people could earn you a decent living, but if you’re caring for the people who really need it… Most of them can’t pay what it’s really worth.

  Also, if there’s people willing to do the job at minimum wage, then there’s going to be CEOs willing to hire them and take all the profit for themselves / shareholders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Buy Store⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A different context, but I think this is actually a pretty good rule for software engineering. A number of times I was sure a problem was someone elses fault, only for them to find my own silly mistake that I was overlooking. Sometimes the opposite also happens to me. Now I really make sure and typically find the actual root cause of problems before I suggest someone else caused it.