It's just more fun to play as a bad ass space marine or COG soldier who can chainsaw your face or rip your spine out. It's cooler. Is it right or accurate? no. Still cooler? yes.
When is the all male focused issue of the escapist?
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Settle out of court. Don't even think about going to court.Hope Chest said:
Why should a husband be stripped of assets? This is a type of punishment for the father.
The father's quality of living decreases significantly with hefty child support payments. Why should the father's quality of life be neglected so that the mother and children's don't have to be? Especially in the instances when child support is more than 50% of the income. In many cases half of people's pay goes to rent, and the other half goes to bills and food plus (hopefully) saving. Why should someone lose the majority of their paycheque, get the unfortunate title of "custodial" parent, and get only have roughly 48 days visitation a year? Especially when cost of living can be high.
You shouldn't be allowed to jail someone who owes money because it only forces them to owe more money. By jailing someone it prevents them from being able to make more money to keep themselves out of debt or even just keep it down.
You may say that it's rough, but if the mother wants money from the father she can get it. The backwards thing is that a mother has the right to say "I don't want a child", get it aborted and not even talk to the father about it because it's "her body", but as soon as that child is born the father's choice doesn't matter. He's responsible for impregnating her, but he has no choice in whether or not he wants a child. That's a double standard. And an expensive one for a father.
Actually, plenty of people gave a shit if there weren't many men in nursing: men, who didn't think it was a vocation befitting them. The initial gender disparity was a result of the same in waitressing: women weren't allowed in very many other fields. I'm technically in nursing (surgical technology, actually), and it took me some time to drop the ego and go after it, in part because I wasn't sure I wanted to do it and I really thought Lorne Michaels would eventually start returning my calls, and in part because I thought it was a "woman's profession." God, how stupid of me.CmdrGoob said:
As for the portrayal of men in games, I don't think it's because of any inherent sexism on the part of the developers but rather dumb-ass suits who assume that you and I are all dipshits who see ourselves as 'roided-out behemoths.
Chances are, were are not "Middle Class". Most young white males are underclass because we ARE young and don't have the careers yet to try and be middle-class.purplepixie said:
But that's beside the point, why shouldn't we ask for something special? All our lives we have to give and allow special organizations that discriminate and emasculate us, but we have nothing in return. Blacks have the NAACP, Women have NOW, Latinos have LULAC, Whites have.....the KKK. Awesome. And you can't just say, "Well you're a white male, you run the world and have all the advantages", because last I checked, congress or the president doesn't ask me how to run the country, banks don't take my advice on money management. I have to work my ass off for college because there aren't special considerations or exceptions or scholarships that give me money to pay tuition beyond the basic financial aid. My insurance is inherently higher despite women causing more accidents, and as for the courts and the media's perception of me, well I'm just a ticking sociopath and utterly irresponsible and incapable of raising a child. I get into a fight with a black guy, it's automatically considered a hate crime. I tussle with a woman, well then I am a woman-hating mysogonist.
Perhaps you should think beyond a smart-ass response next time you make such a blanket statement.
Then again, he's just created the thread to ask why more aren't being created.Omikron009 said:
Also, not all are focused on us girls. I have seen hundreds recently that majority of girls have not been posting in unless its to say they've never heard about what the OP is talking about. I think it all depends on the topics.
The class status of minors is defined by their households, not their personal incomes, because that's what actually governs the opportunities they get growing up.JaredXE said:
And if you ask any blacks, Latinos, or women, you'll find that those organizations occasionally make a splash 'round campaign season but really don't do much to affect the daily lives of the social groups they represent.JaredXE said:
As Hope Chest put it: what exactly do you expect that "white male" interest group to be doing? What issues apply to all or most white males but specifically just white males?
Also: "emasculate"? Srsly?
This whole "minority scholarships are so unfair to white people!" meme is spreading like wildfire on the Escapist. I don't think y'all realize just how lame most of those minority scholarships really are.JaredXE said:
They're... something. They can be life-changing for a few people, lucky overachievers from rather severely disadvantaged backgrounds. The majority of students don't get one of these things. But they really, reeeeally aren't some magic thing that makes it so that non-whites don't have to worry about paying for college.
Nor do "diversity" policies at some universities remove academic pressure for non-whites.
Oh, please. That's just not how it works.JaredXE said:
-- Alex
I'm upset that 95% of guys act as though RTS games, and PC gaming, are not real games for manly men,
You kill a few hundred covenant throughout halo, but i kill a few thousand orcs, undead, humans, and nightelves in Warcraft 3, unless i play Line Wars
GET IT STRAIGHT PEOPLES
You kill a few hundred covenant throughout halo, but i kill a few thousand orcs, undead, humans, and nightelves in Warcraft 3, unless i play Line Wars
GET IT STRAIGHT PEOPLES
It just seems evil from my point of view to assume automatically that the female is the best parent, because, get this, if she was the better parent, she wouldn't need all of the money from her ex.Hope Chest said:
It just seems like divorce is an easy excuse to walk up and take money from someone you no longer like.