If it's a learning algorithm, then we can teach it not to hurt and kill. Think of it as a dog. I wonder if eventually we'll have to program in some equivalent of "treat" and "newspaper" so that it can be trainable.

Clever girl!
http://i.imgur.com/s1rAXHR.jpg

The trap is assuming a particular individual belonging to a group shares all characteristics of the average member of the group. Or that a particular individual acts how they do because they are a member... that's fuckin' bigoted and ugly.

That said, I don't see why we can't generalize about a GROUP. In general, black people have a much tougher experience of this country than white people. In general, people born twenty years after me have a much different cultural, social and material experience than I did. In general, people of 100 years ago were way more outwardly racist than people of today. Are these generalizations unfair? They don't match every single member of the group, so should we stop trying to recognize broad cultural forces at work over time on large populations of people? You certainly are free to argue that any of the particular generalizations he made are inaccurate or even too dangerous to be spread, I saw a few... but to say that the act of generalization IN GENERAL is taboo...?

Historians 100 years from now won't hesitate to lump our primitive asses all together...

Yeah, this was great. I'm glad they portrayed the ladies reluctant to broach it in front of men, too. Not just the other way 'round.

Geeze, where the heck WAS everybody?

Right, well these are all pretty easy, and the point was exaggeration for comedic effect...

It's not funny, but if one wanted to actually be instructional, the fine line now would be something like: can I ask a woman out a third time after she turned me down twice, the difference between telling a woman "You look great" and "that dress looks great on you" + looking her up and down, should you ever tell a woman you work with you're attracted to her, can I proposition a woman a second time if she's still at my place after a date and said no once? If not, can I ask her to leave then? Can I play that song Baby its cold Outside or Blurred Lines at the office party? Can I tell a joke about sex and should I stop when a woman enters the room, or does that make it worse?

IMO, it's not helpful to pretend it should be obvious and everyone who doesn't get it is a laughable idiot or creep. Or to insist that there's a definite line and you're either a "decent person" or a "complete wanker"... most of us are somewhere in between and vary day to day. Or to say "if it feels wrong it IS wrong"... obviously some men have their feels calibrated differently and would benefit from the rules to being more explicit.

Either that, or the answer to all of these is "depends on the woman..." you just need to get to know them, and even then you probably will make a mistake.

I think you can put everything on the spectrum of "rape-ish" "creepy" whatever... but still recognize that the spectrum has two poles, and a gradient in between. I don't have a problem with publicly discussing WHETHER some behaviour belongs on the spectrum, nor WHERE on the spectrum it belongs. Both are very much the point.

I find this adorable.

It was refreshing to see an educator just teaching, passing on technique to (apparently) her daughter or some other family relation. No follow me on, like and subscribe or "hey guys"...

Huh... I always thought "best rope-jumper", but she's the expert on what to call it, I suppose!

yeah, did you... PUT something in the water?

I dunno... things seem to have changed... there's real consequences for the dudes. Whole beloved careers have been blown away for a few "thrilling" moments of having your dong hang out in front of an intern. How is that math worth it? You think men will stop thinking on that as soon as the heat is lowered a little?

This guy really needs to find a dumpy-looking kid and do some Rick and Morty cosplay!

let me guess... by not buying them?