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andrewducker- Think your country is crowded? These maps reveal the truth about population density across Europe
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- How Private Equity Killed Toys “R” Us
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- This Is What Domestic Violence Is Like When You're LGBT
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- Scotland to ban electric shock dog collars
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- Working in female-dominated workplaces means worse access to flexible working arrangements
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- How Canada may use Sweden's gender-balanced snow-clearing to adjust their budgets
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- The Humanity Star
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- This 19-year-old Kiwi farmer accidentally became a character in a US board game
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- Conflict Theory vs Mistake Theory
- I'm Mistake Theory by nature - with a few bits of learned Conflict.
(tags: politics philosophy argument belief society ) - World's first electric container barges to sail from European ports this summer
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- It’s not all in their heads: people with low self-esteem really do have less responsive partners
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Date: 2018-01-26 03:00 pm (UTC)Anyway, I am a Mistake theorist among peers and a Conflict theorist where significant power imbalances exist, and I feel like this is such an obviously correct way to be that any other position baffles me.
It's rather as if I were asked whether people losing a lot of wealth in a transaction is a function of them making poor financial decisions, or them being robbed. In situations where they have a lot of control over their wealth, I assume the former. In situations where they don't have control over their wealth, I assume the latter. If someone says to me "no, never mind how much control over their wealth they have, just which do you think more likely?" I stare at them bewildered.
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Date: 2018-01-27 04:31 pm (UTC)That seems entirely reasonable to me. And large chunks of my life have been spent discovering all sorts of power imbalances that I had no idea existed, because I grew up in a sheltered middle-class existence.
So I think we need to work on what rules society should run on - but also what we need to do to get to that society in the first place. It seems unlikely that these two things would be the same.
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Date: 2018-01-27 05:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-04 11:13 pm (UTC)no subject
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