Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo — Page 694

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Alcohol ruins more lives than hard drugs do.

Citation needed.

Per population, yes, but per user, most certainly not.

Drugs ruin lives. There is no amount of meth or heroine or cocaine or LSD (et al.) that does not ruin lives. Alcoholism ruins more families, yes, but because there are more alcoholics. Legalizing drugs would not make drugs ruin fewer lives.

It would make prisons ruin fewer lives, and the regulation would make it safer. The United States does pretend to be a free country after all.

ChainsawAsh said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

chyron8472 said:

There is no amount of meth or heroine or cocaine or LSD (et al.) that does not ruin lives.

As LSD isn’t addictive, I don’t see how it can ruin lives.

The biggest risk with LSD use is the potential to cause an earlier onset of mental illnesses like schizophrenia, but it won’t make someone schizophrenic who wasn’t already going to develop the condition, just make it manifest earlier.

I think it also increases the severity of it, but legal drugs can do that too.

You’d think college professors would have been able to figure out on their own that it’s considered insulting to call men “women”, but I suppose the administrative guideline exists precisely because some of them couldn’t.

Maybe I’m looking at this wrong, but if you don’t identify as a woman, why go to a “college for women”?
And if a person with a penis identifies as a woman, will they admit this person?

Warbler said:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/mount-holyoke-college-women-tells-professors-avoid-word-women-020618924.html

I am telling you its mad, mad, mad, mad world

Tell me, in your own words please, how this is “mad?”

I’m appalled by the hate engendered (😉) by Yahoo in its lede:

Mount Holyoke, a women’s college…

Tsk tsk!

If it is indeed a “women’s” college then maybe not admitting “men” would solve the “problem.” If you “know” what I mean.

ray_afraid said:

Maybe I’m looking at this wrong, but if you don’t identify as a woman, why go to a “college for women”?
And if a person with a penis identifies as a woman, will they admit this person?

Hard to say. Women’s colleges are especially appealing if you’ve undergone some sort of trauma involving men, as many have, and I’m sure there are other reasons. Policies would vary from school to school. My guess is a lot of college-aged people are also still working on self-identity, and things may change between admission and graduation.

DominicCobb said:

I guess the question is why it’s still a women only school.

How dare you, sir!

Why are people taking out 100,000 dollars in debt to go to this school?

Warbler said:

ray_afraid said:

Maybe I’m looking at this wrong, but if you don’t identify as a woman, why go to a “college for women”?
And if a person with a penis identifies as a woman, will they admit this person?

Why is there still a “college for woman”? It would not be allowed in any way shape or form a “college for men”.

There aren’t still colleges and boarding schools for men and boys?

EDIT: Just looked it up, there are a few.

Warbler said:

It would not be allowed in any way shape or form a “college for men”.

Wrong. I’m pretty sure there are boarding schools for boys.

Mrebo said:

DominicCobb said:

I guess the question is why it’s still a women only school.

How dare you, sir!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7tGEEWQIhQ&t=77s

yhwx said:

Warbler said:

It would not be allowed in any way shape or form a “college for men”.

Wrong. I’m pretty sure there are boarding schools for boys.

Yep. There are four colleges for men and several boarding schools for boys.

I don’t necessarily have a problem with sex-segregated private schools. I don’t see why anyone would want to send their kid there or go to college there, though.

moviefreakedmind said:

yhwx said:

Warbler said:

It would not be allowed in any way shape or form a “college for men”.

Wrong. I’m pretty sure there are boarding schools for boys.

Yep. There are four colleges for men and several boarding schools for boys.

I actually went to a boarding school, or rather a military school, for my last two years of high school. It was all boys.

ChainsawAsh said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Why are people taking out 100,000 dollars in debt to go to this school?

Why do people take on incredible amounts of debt to go to any school?

Genuinely asking, I have no idea why I did it either.

It was hammered into me that it’d be the only way I could get a job and not live a shit life. To be fair, I do live moderately well, but that’s just because I live cheap and don’t have a family.

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

yhwx said:

Warbler said:

It would not be allowed in any way shape or form a “college for men”.

Wrong. I’m pretty sure there are boarding schools for boys.

Yep. There are four colleges for men and several boarding schools for boys.

I actually went to a boarding school, or rather a military school, for my last two years of high school. It was all boys.

I wasn’t even thinking of military schools. I knew those were segregated.