Links - 13th September 2017 (1)

'Fellatio cafe' where customers receive oral sex while they drink their coffee - "At the end of this year, a new coffee shop, Fellatio Café, will open up in Geneva, Switzerland, where you can get a hot cup of joe, with a side of blowjob. Seriously... And just how much will this sexual service set you back? 60 Swiss francs, or about $50. Plus five francs for the coffee, of course. This is a business after all"

Pole vaulter's penis gets in the way of his Olympic dreams - "Ogita was attempting to clear a height of 5.3 meters (17.3 feet) in group A of the first round of the pole vault, when his leg came in contact with the bar. As he began to drop back down toward the ground, his shin grazed the bar, causing it to wobble dangerously. But it was his penis that delivered the final blow"

NY Senator Gets Annihilated on Twitter After Praising Sharia Law Activist Linda Sarsour
It is appropriate that Linda Sarsour is a "suffragist", since Black Lives Matter is "The New Civil Righs Movement"

Fox's APB Is the Latest Show to Misunderstand Robocop - "RoboCop was intended to be a viciously hilarious attack on police brutality, union busting, mass-media brainwashing, and the exploitation of the working class by amoral corporate raiders. Alas, all too many people only noticed the viciousness, not the targets thereof... the movie is a spiritual sibling to Verhoeven’s other tragically misinterpreted masterwork, 1997’s antiwar satire Starship Troopers"

NY Times Hates 'Theocratic' Pool Hours for Women -- With One Exception, for Muslim 'Me Time' - "The Times can't stand Orthodox Jewish women having sex-segregated swimming hours in a public space....but lauded it for Muslim women in February."

Helicopter parenting is increasingly correlated with college-age depression and anxiety. - "One kid’s father threatened to divorce her mother if the daughter didn’t major in economics. It took this student seven years to finish instead of the usual four, and along the way the father micromanaged his daughter’s every move, including requiring her to study off campus at her uncle’s every weekend... students with helicopter parents were less open to new ideas and actions and more vulnerable, anxious, and self-conscious. “[S]tudents who were given responsibility and not constantly monitored by their parents—so-called ‘free rangers’—the effects were reversed”"
This could explain SJW antics

5 Weird Foods the French Consider Delicacies - "There’s an anecdote that places Napoleon’s chief advisor, Talleyrand, in a Burgundy restaurant with Czar Alexander I in 1814. They arrived late, the food was gone, and the chef spotted some snails in his garden. In a panic he added garlic to mask the taste, parsley to pretty them up and butter to make them easier to swallow. Apparently the Czar liked the dish so much, he demanded the recipe. Whenever he saw snails after that, he referred to them as “snails from Burgundy,” or escargots de Bourgogne."

Why one woman stole 50 million academic papers — and made them all free to read - "Alexandra Elbakyan has had enough. Elbakyan is a Russia-based neuroscientist turned academic Robin Hood. In 2011 she founded the website Sci-Hub, which has grown to host some 50 million academic papers — Elbakyan claims this is nearly all the paywalled scientific knowledge that exists in the world. These papers are free for anyone to view and download... In the United States, Sci-Hub users seem to be clustered around academic hot-spots, such as East Lansing, Michigan, where Michigan State University is located. This suggest students and researchers are using Sci-Hub despite having journal access. It's easy to understand why. University libraries have complicated (and sometimes multiple) catalog programs to deliver scientific papers to students and staff. Sci-Hub offers a singular, simple-to-use portal... "American research libraries spent 227% more for their journal collections in 2002 than in 1986. The CPI increased 57% during the same period." The frustrating irony is that universities have to pay these sky-high prices despite the fact they are the institutions funding the research in the journals. Similarly, taxpayers spend $140 billion every year supporting research they can't easily access... "If the process really were as complex, costly and value-added as the publishers protest that it is, 40 percent [profit] margins wouldn't be available""

I'm Done Pretending Men Are Safe (Even My Sons) - "My sons won’t rape unconscious women behind a dumpster, and neither will most of the progressive men I know. But what all of these men share in common, even my sons, is a relentless questioning and disbelief of the female experience. I do not want to prove my pain, or provide enough evidence to convince anyone that my trauma is merited. I’m through wasting my time on people who are more interested in ideas than feelings, and I’m through pretending these people, these men, are safe. I love my sons, and I love some individual men. It pains me to say that I don’t feel emotionally safe with them, and perhaps never have with a man, but it needs to be said because far too often we are afraid to say it. This is not a reflection of something broken or damaged in me; it is a reflection of the systems we build and our boys absorb. Those little boys grow into men who know the value of women, the value that’s been ascribed to us by a broken system, and it seeps out from them in a million tiny, toxic ways."
Comments: "this sounds a bit Borderline Personality Disorder; I hope she finds peace."
"The main objective of this muh feminist feelz propaganda piece is to taunt its readers with “all Whites are racist.”"
"Lady, you do not have a fucking clue what it is to be a man, how to be a man, therefore you should not even try to teach your boys how to be a man because you do not have a fucking clue."
"I find this article deeply disturbing. The author sounds preoccupied with misogyny to the extent it is negatively coloring her perception of her children. She almost sounds scared of them"

Sweden's gender-neutral preschools produce kids who are more likely to succeed - "children who attended one gender-neutral preschool were more likely to play with unfamiliar children of the opposite gender, and less likely to be influenced by culturally enforced gender stereotypes, compared to children enrolled at other pre-schools. Tests showed that the kids from the gender-neutral school were as likely as other children to group people by gender, but didn’t attach traditional associations to the concepts of “male” or “female” children to the same degree. During a matching task, for instance, they were less likely to make choices in line with cultural norms when shown images of boys or girls and jeans or dresses."
Anyone can be successful when you define them as successful

Shia LaBeouf Threatens to Kill Cop with Gun in Bodycam Footage - "Shia LaBeouf went on a racist, violent rant in the police car after being arrested early Saturday morning in Georgia. Shia screamed at the cop, "If I had my gun I'll blow your s*** up." And that wasn't all. He said, "You put your own kind in the f***ing pen." As we previously reported, Shia also ranted about being an American who pays his taxes"
"He will not divide us"

Catfights over handbags and tears in the toilets. With her women-only TV company this producer thought she'd kissed goodbye to conflict... - "The venomous women were supposedly the talented employees I had headhunted to achieve my utopian dream - a female- only company with happy, harmonious workers benefiting from an absence of men. It was an idealistic vision swiftly shattered by the nightmare reality: constant bitchiness, surging hormones, unchecked emotion, attention-seeking and fashion rivalry so fierce it tore my staff apart. When I read the other day that Sienna Miller had said there was no such thing as 'the Sisterhood', I knew what she meant... there was a time when I believed in the Sisterhood - but that was before women at war led to my emotional and financial ruin... Working in TV is notoriously difficult for women. There is a powerful old boys' network, robust glass ceiling and the majority of bosses are misogynistic males. Gradually, what had started out as a daydream - wouldn't it be great if there were no men where I worked? - turned into an exciting concept. I decided to create the first all-female production company where smart, intelligent, career-orientated women could work harmoniously, free from the bravado of the opposite sex... Hideously stereotypical and shallow as it sounds, clothes were a huge source of catty comments, from sly remarks about people looking over-dressed to the merits of their fake tan application. I always felt sorry for anyone who naively showed off a new purchase in the office, because everyone would coo appreciatively to their face - then harshly criticise them as soon as they were out of earshot. This happened without exception... The office was like a Milan catwalk, but with the competitiveness of a Miss World contest - and the low cunning of a mud-wrestling bout... Two of the skinny girls often snidely said about the largest girl: 'I'd kill myself if I got that fat.' One of the assistants got her own back on the food police for several weeks by pretending to buy them fat-free lattes. . . which were really full-fat. Employees considered it acceptable to take time off for beauty treatments - and not out of their holiday allowance... My idealism was my downfall because I tried to see the best in people - I was convinced they would behave as they were treated, so I treated everyone kindly. If I'd have been more cynical, I would have been more successful... The effect a lack of testosterone was having in our office was even more apparent when I temporarily hired two male directors to work on a series (camera operators are usually men because of the heavy equipment). The team suddenly became quieter, more hard-working and less bitchy - partly because they were too busy flirting... I hate how much that sounds like stereotyping, but I'm afraid it's what I found to be true. And while I stand by my initial reason for excluding male employees - because they have an easy ride in TV - if I were to do it again, I'd definitely employ men. In fact, I'd probably employ only men. Making close to half a million in our first year should have meant profit, but this was wiped out by high salaries and accounting errors by staff. Then, when we began having cash-flow problems, Sarah signed herself off sick with stress for a month. She also confessed she'd been dodging calls from people who were due payment, thus ruining my firm's reputation... To pump extra cash into the business, I sold both my cars, but it was too late and we went bankrupt in March 2007, less than two years after I'd formed the company."
SJWing has real consequences when you must spend your own money

Boys told to 'man up' by peers are 4 times more likely to bully others: Survey - "More than half of schoolboys here have hit, punched, shoved or spat on another boy while in secondary school. More than four-fifths have taunted another for being "girly" or not being "manly" enough. These were found in a survey of 809 teenagers aged 17 and 18 by women's rights group Aware. The results, said Aware researcher Chong Ning Qian, are alarming. She found that those who were teased are more likely to go on to bully other boys. Aware decided to survey boys after a campaign to end violence against women found that men, too, "were victims of violence because of gender stereotyping"... The boys were asked whether their peers told them to "man up", "stop being such a girl" or to not cry - a practice Aware calls gender policing -and whether they experienced or committed violence. A whopping 84 per cent admitted to verbally bullying another, by insulting a boy for being feminine or weak and calling him a "sissy" or "gay". A lower - but still significant- proportion resorted to physical bullying: 29 per cent gave a schoolmate a wedgie by yanking his underwear; 54 per cent hit, punched, shoved or spat on another; and 69 per cent took part in a practice called taupok where boys pile on a target... "Boys tend to be a bit more physical. To be violent you have to have the intention to harm someone"... it could be part of "an occasion where someone is celebrating something like a birthday", said Singapore Children's Society chief executive Alfred Tan. He said he would not classify a one-off incident as bullying. But for child psychologist Carol Balhetchet, the main factor is whether the person feels victimised and had asked for the act to stop but was ignored. "Children's sense of fun - especially for boys up to the age of 16 and some even older - is to see how far they can get away with what they see as poking fun at another," said Dr Balhetchet."
AWARE calling taupok violence/bullying just shows they've no clue about men. And the experts agree

Campaign promoting Chinese gets one of its slogan's Chinese words wrong - "Mandarin is hard. Organisers of a Speak Mandarin campaign in Singapore were red-faced after they debuted a banner with a slogan, to encourage people to use the Chinese language more in reading and communicating. However, instead of using the Chinese character for "read" (读), it instead chose one that meant "showing disrespect" (渎)"

Only 7 per cent of Britons consider themselves feminists - "More than two thirds of Britons support gender equality – but just seven per cent would call themselves feminists... men were more supportive generally of equality between the sexes - 86 per cent wanted it for the women in their lives - compared to 74 per cent of women. Younger women were more likely to call themselves feminist, with 19 per cent aged 18-24 using the word, but they were also most likely to oppose feminism... People were asked to say the first word that popped into their heads when they heard the word “feminist”. More than a quarter said “bitchy”"
Britons are even more averse to the label than Americans, even though American feminists seem to have more excesses
Is it sexist to say the men were more feminist than the women?

Racism and the Aladdin Casting Search - "the casting search for Disney’s live-action Aladdin, which has taken longer than initially expected. Production was expected to begin in July, but it’s been pushed back to August in order to accommodate the search for a male lead... “Finding a male lead in his 20s who can act and sing has proven difficult,” reads the article, “especially since the studio wants someone of Middle-Eastern or Indian descent (the animated film is set in the fictional Middle Eastern city of Agrabah)….[T]he search has dragged on, with Disney and Ritchie having to go back to the drawing board multiple times.” “Especially since the studio wants someone of Middle-Eastern or Indian descent”? Seriously? Seriously?... to suggest that it’s taking so long because the talent pool is limited to Middle-Eastern and Indian actors is racist as hell
When reality conflicts with your ideology, clearly reality is to blame
If I were a Middle Eastern/Indian actor and I knew the studio was looking for one and that there were few of my kind, I would ask for more money, which would delay casting
Comments: "This I what you get when you inherently think everything is racist and/or get paid to blog."
"Or... maybe searching exclusively for Arab/Indian men is difficult because it's another factor that narrows down an already very small pool?"

Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire - "Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers"