Links - 2nd April 2020 (3)

Zac Mabry on Twitter - "This plant-based alternative promises to help high schoolers stop vaping. *Cigarette*"

Gender differences in load carriage injuries of Australian army soldiers - "Fifteen percent (n = 6) of injuries in female soldiers and 6% (n = 23) of injuries in males were classified as Serious Personal Injuries... The injury risk ratio of SPI for female compared to male soldiers was 2.40... While both genders similarly have the lower back as the leading site of injury while carrying load, female soldiers have more injuries to the foot as the second leading site of injury, as opposed to ankle injuries in males. The typically smaller statures of female soldiers may have predisposed them to their observed higher risk of suffering SPI while carrying loads."
The power of patriarchy!

Army document reveals 86% of female soldiers failed new physical fitness test - "The “unisex” Army Combat Fitness Test has become a disaster for female Soldiers, as around 84 percent of them can’t seem to pass it, according to a leaking army document."

Study suggests women dress modestly to defend themselves against aggression from other women - "New research in Social Psychological and Personality Science provides evidence that women strategically dampen signals of sexual permissiveness and desirability to avoid provoking intersexual aggression. In other words, the study suggests that women “dress defensively” by wearing less revealing outfits when encountering other women... The participants tended choose more modest outfits when attending an all-female gathering compared to gatherings with both men and women. This tendency was exaggerated among women who rated themselves as more physically attractive.Women who considered themselves attractive also tended to dress less revealingly when meeting a prospective new female friend. But this was not the case when attractive women were told they would be meeting with an existing female friend. Women who considered themselves as less attractive, on the other hand, tended to dress more revealingly when meeting a prospective compared to an existing female friend... "Once we acknowledge the reality that women are active agents who compete and aggress against one another, we can generate so many questions about how women defend themselves against this aggression""
Of course, if you're not a feminist you'll know that women "slut shame" more than men

Being Classically Liberal - Posts - "[AOC's] tweet... frames military members as victims. She describes servicemen and women as "vulnerable, poor, & working people -who had little to no say in conflict."I think AOC overstates this. A 2016 study on the matter noted that, "Most members of the military come from middle-class neighborhoods. A neighborhood affluence study found that the middle three quintiles were overrepresented among enlisted recruits, while the top and bottom quintiles were underrepresented."... many see military service as a public service they find meaning in performing. I doubt these individuals would want to be portrayed as victims.  Another thing the tweet ignores is that many of the politicians that influence foreign policy were in fact combat soldiers (for example, the current Secretary of Defense Mark Esper is a combat infantryman.)"

Coconut milk gives you bigger breasts, Chinese drink ad insists - "A popular Chinese coconut milk manufacturer has again come under fire for adverts and packaging which claim that its beverage will make women’s breasts grow bigger.Adverts for the Coconut Palm coconut milk drink feature several large-chested women dressed in skimpy tops alongside slogans such as “drink one can every day, [your] curves will excite people, whiter and more plump”, “genuine Coconut Palm coconut juice, I drank from small to big” and “drinking more coconut milk every day can make [your] breasts fuller”... Coconut Palm was criticised for similar adverts for its coconut drink in 2017, when it also featured large-chested women in bikinis to promote its papaya juice, using the slogan “when I’m full of papaya I’m ample-chested”."

TP Pillay on Twitter - "Looks like frost but it’s Spider season In Australia "

Chinese chemist who broke woman’s ribs during CPR cleared of liability - "The owner of a pharmacy in northeast China who was sued by an elderly woman on whom he performed CPR after she collapsed in his shop has been cleared of any liability for breaking her ribs in the process... Despite the court clearing his name, Sun said he was forced to close his store in June because of dwindling business after some locals shunned him because of what had happened"
No wonder Chinese people in China don't care about those they don't know

RazörFist on Twitter - "PragerU, a growing hub of the online right-wing media machine, is using YouTube as a way to circumvent professors — and parents — to reach a new generation of students"
"I love that the Times just low-key admitted college professors are socialist indoctrinarians"

AMOSC: DEVITOPAPI on Twitter - "Girls have a hard time choosing where to eat, because the last time they chose, they doomed all of humanity"

Paradoxical | Counter-Signal Memes | Know Your Meme - "the damsel in distress trope is disgusting because it makes women seem helpless and in need of men to come save them
by the way did you know women are at risk of being raped and murdered every time they leave their house? that's why we need men to be feminists"

Study: to increase female participation, STEM profs should grade less 'harshly' - "A new study argues that the number of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) can be increased by simply making grading policies within the fields less harsh.In a paper titled “Equilibrium Grade Inflation with Implications for Female Interest in STEM Majors,” Naval Postgraduate School professor Thomas Ahn, Duke University economics professor Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University researcher Amy Hopson, and James R. Thomas of the Federal Trade Commission argue that STEM programs at colleges and universities lacking female enrollment can be attributed largely to harsh grading policies in these fields. The researchers take the position that universities are discouraging students, especially female students, from pursuing STEM majors by allowing differences in grading policies and study time across different fields to exist. They contend that “harsher grading policies in STEM courses disproportionately affect women,” because women are more impacted mentally by receiving poor grades... Their research led them to the conclusion that women weigh grades more heavily when choosing which fields to pursue, and that their sensitivities to harsher grading policies and are in large part responsible for the lack of women in STEM fields."
This will surely dispel the 'stereotype' that women are bad at STEM, and raise the value of STEM degrees held by women!

BBC London - Posts - "A man walked past and told me to ‘cheer up’. It’s a phrase I’ve heard my entire life but in that moment I questioned it for the first time.I felt guilty for not looking happy and angry that a stranger had told me how to look and feel.I went to a female friend’s house and we talked about it. Why is it a thing men do? This sparked a conversation about sexual harassment and we swapped stories.Harassment was like a normal part of our day. On public transport, in school and at work.Some of my male friends said they don’t believe how much it happens.They said we were taking it the wrong way and that those were compliments.That inspired me to do something. So I started Cheer Up Luv, a photo campaign to tell women’s accounts of sexual harassment."
Hearteningly, most of the comments are bashing her. Still, for the BBC to even dignify this with a post...
Though on the bright side, this just reassures us that when feminists claim women face harassment all the time, they're talking rubbish

Video gamer who fought ISIS credits skills to Call of Duty - "John Duttenhofer of Colorado, traveled to Syria last April to fight ISIS alongside the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, in ISIS' de-facto capital, Raqqa"

You Can Get A Baby Onesie With A Built-In Mop That Lets Your Little One Clean While They Learn To Crawl

Lucas Lynch - "A rule that needs to be applied consistently, including to myself.If someone says something and it seems like word salad, whether intentionally or not, you always have the right to ask for a simpler version of what they said.One of the key differences I found between people in the sciences and people in the humanities is I found that if you drilled down people from a scientific perspective they were consistently take complex things and make them seem simpler and easier to comprehend. Many people in the humanities by contrast would take concepts that are actually quite simple and make them seem much more difficult and incomprehensible.I was accused of word salad, which was definitely not my intention, but it's perfectly reasonable to ask for further clarification. If it cannot be clarified, we should question whether or not it is a sound proposition  "

Blaire White on Twitter - "Morbid obesity and anorexia are both destructive and deadly, yet one is celebrated and hailed as beautiful. Miss me with that bullshit."
Feminists are more likely to be one than the other, so

Students Against Sleep - SAS - "Your last name originated from your ancestors jobs"
"Mr. Dickinson"
"Just to be clear, Ramsbottom is my married name. 🤣"

mcc on Twitter - "I really like Chinese vampires because as far as I can tell a culture that invented a divine bureaucracy concluded you can reanimate a corpse by filling out the correct piece of paperwork and filing it directly on their face"

Chaos Language Translator - Posts - "Hello There! *General Greivous vs General Kenobi in multiple languages, with photoshop*"

Students Against Sleep - SAS - "Really disappointed that @Maybelline would name a black eyeliner "Negro" in 2019. More reasons to get that #FENTY"
"That isn’t racism it’s just Spanish"
Spanish is racist!

Saitama man robs 7-Eleven with knives, steals 3 onigiri - "A 7-Eleven convenience store in Kasukabe City, Saitama Prefecture was the scene of a daring late-night armed robbery earlier this week as an unidentified young man held clerks at knife-point and made off with a total of three onigiri rice balls, whose combined value came to approximately 300 yen (US$2.94).He’d have gotten away with too, if it hadn’t been for the bread delivery guy… As he trailed the young bandit, the bread man dialed 110 on his mobile phone and called the authorities. Police swiftly rendezvoused with them and took down the suspect approximately 300 meters from the store.According to the authorities, the onigiri bandit was intoxicated at the time of the robbery, but they are still looking into a motive beyond him being wasted. It’s unclear what became of the rice balls."

Inside the rogue 7-Eleven, a convenience store completely cut off by its company - "This particular store has been the focus of nationwide news for over a year now, after its owner Mitoshi Matsumoto took it upon himself to not be open 24-hours a day due to a lack of staff. This angered the head office who threatened to terminate their franchise agreement, thus sparking a debate over the working conditions of convenience stores in general.The dispute continued in various forms until Dec 31, 2019, when the franchise agreement between Matsumoto and 7-Eleven was ended by the company, saying they received too many complaints from customers. The cancellation was challenged by Matsumoto, and the case is currently in the courts.The closure was widely covered by media, showing the owner marking down all of his goods for a clearance sale. At that time, it was reported that he would continue to run the store in 2020, but as an independent business rather than a 7-Eleven franchise. However, when the store reopened on Jan 3, many were surprised to find that the 7-Eleven signs were still up and Matsumoto, along with his two remaining staff members were still wearing uniforms.“I still think this is 7-Eleven,” he told media, adding that while the contract is still in dispute it cannot be cancelled.This created an odd situation. The store was technically open, but completely cut off from the 7-Eleven system. The ATM was shutdown, no fresh food was delivered, and the cash register stopped working. The people, however, continued to sell. The store had gone rogue."