The Misguided Message of Men's Rights Groups

[freethinker44]

Steve Jobs and Bill gates didn't come to mind?

They did but I immediately dismissed them because they didn't really invent anything. Steve Jobs just built a company on other peoples innovations, and Microsoft just rebranded other products, they didn't create dos or windows, they just made their own versions. I'm sure there will be some who disagree, but that's my somewhat educated opinion about them.

 

[Revoltingest]

They did but I immediately dismissed them because they didn't really invent anything. Steve Jobs just built a company on other peoples innovations, and Microsoft just rebranded other products, they didn't create dos or windows, they just made their own versions. I'm there will be some who disagree, but that's my somewhat educated opinion about them.

I'd expect that those guys did invent many innovations, but these would pale in comparison to what you pointed out.

I'll never be known as an inventor because my miserable achievements are overshadowed by my notoriety for wearing loud Hawaiian shirts.

 

[Apex]

Steve Jobs and Bill gates didn't come to mind?

The man who gave us mac fan boys? If that is what being an innovator is I hope to never become one.

 

[freethinker44]

I'll never be known as an inventor because my miserable achievements are overshadowed by my notoriety for wearing loud Hawaiian shirts.

Loud shirts will do that. Can't even land a probe on a comet 300 million miles away without people losing their minds over a shirt.

 

[dust1n]

I don't think I've spoken on the topic of men who are asserting that "today" is a matriarchy.

I'm also not entirely clear on "today". Since a day cannot obviously be any sort of 'archy; I assume you must mean that they mean that something is, today, a matriarchy. While there are some specific things that are (I have worked for two companies where the portion I was a part of was); I've not seen that assertion made and so cannot comment.

Welp, I've come across more than once. Different experiences.

What I put in quotes, and what you quoted before writing this was a mock, but not a joke. Mocking is not "jokes specifically to offend".

I still see it to the contrary. Guess we hit an impasse.

Apples and oranges. If we were discussing a post on Time's web-forums then the comparison (though irrelevent) would at least be valid.

The *point* of what I posted was the *difference* between a webboard and a publication. You've ignored that difference entirely in your response.

Time cannot publish articles saying "black people are inferior in every way to white people" and keep its circulation. Posting that same thing on 4Chan (which any one of us can go do right now: can you get an article in Time?) will likely only increase browsing. The two are not comparable... again: my point.

In a way in agree. I would argue that Time magazine wholly has less to do with the topic than 4chan any day. But I've been around and seen the attempts at creating misinformation on the internet and what sort of influence that creates. I've never met person in my life who has ever mentioned Time magazine. Maybe it's a generation thing.

 

[Revoltingest]

Loud shirts will do that. Can't even land a probe on a comet 300 million miles away without people losing their minds over a shirt.

My shirts are even worse than the mild one on that nerd. One (a Hawaiian) has frightened Wahinis recoiling from aliens in spaceships.

 

[Midnight Rain]

The man who gave us mac fan boys? If that is what being an innovator is I hope to never become one.

While I can agree to the sentiment I do like my Iphone.

 

[Revoltingest]

While I can agree to the sentiment I do like my Iphone.

Aye, the reason I have one is because Steve Jobs pushed a particular approach to industrial design which I favor, ie, integrated design of all components (hardware & software) for simpler & more elegant function. He was the Raymond Loewy of our age. (How many nerds know who he is?)

OK, I'm done derailing the thread...for now.

 

[suncowiam]

I like how cheap my Android phone is and does the same thing, although, not as elegant. =)