Apropos of nothing, scaphism is a word you don’t hear much anymore.
This is the third time it has appeared on QT3.
Every time I hear this, I wonder if this article is true or not:
It seems like a space to get more equality - perhaps men need to take more responsibility.
Or maybe we could idk treat people who have children as people, and not naughty wage slaves who did something contrary to the growth of their betters’ capital.
That story offers two possible explanations:
One is an environmental explanation, where social norms make it harder for mothers to stay in the workforce. Under this explanation, moms may find that they aren’t offered certain opportunities — a job that requires significant travel or long hours, for example — because of the perception that they are the primary caregiver to a child.
The other is a biological explanation: that women may have a stronger preference for spending more time in activities related to child care.
The first can be summarized as capitalized societies are structurally sexist. Work is imagined in a way that there are two kinds of roles: ‘serious’ roles which pay well and demand all of the workers’ time and attention, e.g. long hours, working weekends, lots of travel, etc, and which are only for careerists willing to dedicate their life to the employer; and unserious ones that pay less, have reasonable hours and put demands on workers which permit those workers to actually have lives. When children come along, naturally one parent is forced to choose the unserious job, and generally our society pressures women to make that choice.
The second can be summarized as this is entirely a choice women make driven by their unique biology. Society has nothing to do with it and it is basically the fault of women that they make less.
Both of these reasons are deeply misogynistic. The second is transparently so. The first is aided by the way we’ve constructed high-priced work. There isn’t any reason that there have to be ‘serious’ jobs at all. The answer isn’t we should find a way to help women with children be able to choose high-paid slavery. It’s we should abolish high-paid slavery.
Don’t countries with forced shared (or alternating) paternity leave do better?
IIRC generous paternal leave correlates strongly with so many positive outcomes that not enacting it is stupid as well as cruel.
Tea Partiers brought this doctor to speak. Is there a way we could get her medical license revoked? She should not be treating anyone with the views she has:
Trump’s New Favorite COVID Doctor Believes in Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, and Hydroxychloroquine
Thrag
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I just assumed that in this instance MD stood of Master of Demonology.
KevinC
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Or a transposition error and her only qualifications are that she runs a D&D campaign.
I’ve known DMs who’d run a “Demons are fucking a plague into the human population” campaign, and trust me, they get run out of nerd circles pretty quick, too ;-)
It’s amazing how even doctors will sacrifice their MD to worship trump. So very sad.
It remains of the old joke, “what do you call the person who graduates dead last in their medical school?”
A. Doctor
Anyways Ms. Ward medical credentials are more impressive than my own, but that doesn’t say much
She was awarded a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, and also received a master’s degree in public health from A.T. Still University.[ cita
Doing a bit more googling she did practice medicine in Arizona for a bit, but Dr. Carson she’s not.
Osteopathy is founded in quackery and osteopathic doctors are just doctors with a lower standard of training and some weird ideas (at least in the US; in other places they are medically untrained quacks because osteopathy is bullshit)
At our school the main difference is that in addition to the course load our MDs have, the DO takes additional hours in osteopathic quackery (amounts to abut 3 extra weeks of courses I think?). I can;t speak to what West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine requires.
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Soapyfrog are you confusing osteopathy and homeopathy? B/C my understanding is that osteopathy is quite legitimate in the US, whereas homeopathy is full on quackery in every country. I’ve had DOs (Doctors of Osteopathy) as treating physicians in my personal life and also as medical experts in my workers’ compensation law cases, and my layman’s impression is that the DOs have been every bit as good as the MDs. And also, by reputation in my legal community, there’s no difference.
However, I do recall the first time I saw the term “Doctor of Osteopathy” in a Curriculum Vitae I thought to myself “Self, is that the weird homeostasis-based quackery?” but then realized there’s a difference between osteopathy and homeopathy.
