Police Brutality seems, at least from my view, to be more of an issue of police not adhering to standards rather than just race/love.
it's definitely about race, there's a reason you don't see black officers shooting black unarmed teenagers
Men are assaulted just the same as women. It doesn't matter if it's more common for either love; the fact that it happens is the issue.
ooh nope nope nope nope nope this is so bad dude i'm sorry. it's INCREDIBLY important that it happens so much more commonly to women.
I wouldn't say the wage gap is specifically American, and I'd assume that all over the world people are paid less than others based on all kinds of meaningless qualities outside of love and race. Again, I'd argue this is to do with a lack of specific standardised pay rates.
i don't know if this is how it goes in australia, but big american corporations (with VERY few exceptions) are some of the most trashy collections of human beings in the world. for instance, disabled/handicapped workers for walmart (i believe it was walmart; correct me if i'm wrong) are sometimes paid less than 5% of minimum wage because of legal loopholes. many employers simply pay women less and then make up stuffty excuses for it
requoting everything is exhausting, so i hope you don't mind if i bulletpoint - it should match up with your points enough to be understandable
- men do have it remarkably easier on the whole. this is another perspective issue i'd ask you to consider; your personal experience does not apply to the world as a whole. "men have it easier" applies much more than marginally, enough for it to be valid.
- women receive rape threats and horrendously misogynistic comments in most online gaming communities (i'm referring mostly to in-game chats and stuff), along with being incessantly special interestized. like you said, i don't mind games with stuffty portrayals of women to exist, but it's so hilariously saturated that nothing else shines through. also, the main problem with games that portray women misogynistically is that they often completely lack self-awareness, as if presenting an actually misogynistic view rather than satire.
- if you don't see the way that most men in this country view women, then that's your issue. ignorance is bliss? i don't mean to be rude, but it's rampant, dude. that rhymed, i'm so sorry
- like i said, the deeply ingrained attitudes are outside of your personal world, and outside of mine as well. my point is that you need to stop presenting your personal experience as what is actually commonly true around the world. any statistician will tell you that a sample size of 1 out of 7 billion is astronomically bad practice.
- doesn't matter if it's an example; your example is logically fallacious, and it doesn't stand in the debate. it's funny you should bring up the cave, because my entire point is that perspective and having a greater understanding of the world is important
- i actually completely agree with you here! i'll criticize feminist sensationalism any day, don't worry
- my point isn't that content creators are deliberately trying to be malicious, it's that they ARE being malicious. perhaps inadvertently. it's not really an issue of how you construe it, when car ads feature a scantily clad woman standing next to it just to make the ad "loveier." before you make the point that men are also loveualized in media, that's true, but it again comes back to the fact that women are used FAR more often than men, and are often used in far more loveualized pieces in comparison.
- good, i'm jealous you had the opportunity to take a class in media studies! i'm going from a completely broke high school to Stanford next year, so you can imagine how i'm excited to take advantage of resources. the point is, you should see what i'm saying here based upon your exposure to how stuffty advertising can be
- you made an invalid point through a fallacy, though. i agree that it doesn't matter what form it arrived in, but the message itself is flawed.
- feminism doesn't promote only being able to have one opinion - why do you think i called an entire group of feminists idiots earlier? it's a multi-faceted ideology; confusing and frustrating at times, i'll agree/admit, but definitely not what you think it is.