tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post43440082834977650..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Why Hire Women?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-80487451638050277972018-01-01T04:12:50.280-08:002018-01-01T04:12:50.280-08:00Emmett Till was unavailable for comment.Emmett Till was unavailable for comment.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-36547626775889659462018-01-01T04:07:37.365-08:002018-01-01T04:07:37.365-08:00Back in the 'old South', a black man could...Back in the 'old South', a black man could be jailed or even hanged on the word of a white woman. Our culture seems to want to bring this back, except universally.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-71728734722192288172017-12-30T09:18:57.093-08:002017-12-30T09:18:57.093-08:00Ultimately, there is no possible way to prevent th...Ultimately, there is no possible way to prevent this, or most other, kinds of illegal discrimination unless we are willing to adopt German labor law (in which every decision not to hire someone is followed by a government hearing where the employer must justify it). And I don't think the American public would accept that.<br /><br />So the snowflakes will lose this battle. The only question is how many men have to suffer first.jdgalthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08984710697512765565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-7439589323643306922017-12-29T20:54:02.274-08:002017-12-29T20:54:02.274-08:00Sam L: good one. But I wonder if women can then su...Sam L: good one. But I wonder if women can then sue for a "pattern and practice" of discrimination. (Damned if you do, damned if you don't)Walt Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-81678060172409120782017-12-29T13:19:16.704-08:002017-12-29T13:19:16.704-08:00The #MeToo movement is troublesome enough if it me...The #MeToo movement is troublesome enough if it means women are always victims and men are always willful predators in the constant look out for prey. The only honest answers is adults have to be willing to be adults, and be willing to call out behavior immediately and directly when it happens, and only go to HR or higher bosses or law enforcement when all personal agency has failed to handle a situation. Being responsible adult first and last must mean fighting your own battles, and people will respect you for that, not tattling anonymously because someone told a sexist joke at work.<br /><br />Pedophilia is the trickier issue, since we do have to assume children are vulnerable (even if they can also be devilish too) but adults can be skilled at seduction and deception and do prey on children who are least resistant, so assertiveness also applies for children while we can't depend on it. And for adults, being charged with abusive relationships with children has a very high social stigma, much higher than sexual harassment, and there is also a need to believe the child because they are weak. So when I offered to have an after school computer club at my house years ago, the teacher I worked with explicitly said I MUST have another adult present, for my own legal protection as much as anything, if someone claimed inappropriate behavior by me.<br /><br />And I just saw this provocative title today. The word oppressed is obviously problematic, since its more of a mental framework than a fact of behavior, at least within the modern world where you can't beat the hell out of someone just because you feel like it and expect to get away with it, even if it does seem to be true that if you're rich enough you can imagine shooting someone on 5th avenue and not lose any votes, and so apparently men and women both are willing to endure a little domination, as long as their hated rivals are oppressed more.<br />https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/do-women-want-to-be-oppressed/<br /><br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-14337532560454230612017-12-29T11:20:30.489-08:002017-12-29T11:20:30.489-08:00Our Do Not Hire Women policy is specifically desig...Our Do Not Hire Women policy is specifically designed to ensure that women are not mistreated by our employees. Safety of women is a high priority of this firm.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-60406413225411038232017-12-29T08:31:15.294-08:002017-12-29T08:31:15.294-08:00Blackstone puts you on a slippery slope. Jeremy B...Blackstone puts you on a slippery slope. Jeremy Bentham, in <i>A Treatise on Judicial Evidence</i> (1825) criticizes this and asks, why ten? why not a hundred or a thousand? Why ever prosecute if there's any chance of convicting an innocent man? <br /><br />This is not what "presumption of innocence" means; it means that the exclusion of some kinds of evidence raises the prosecutorial bar and better defines "beyond a reasonable doubt". Also, unstated but true: because the definition of convicted doesn't mean certainty, the Constitution accepts that a certain percentage of will be tried and convicted of crimes they did not commit, convicted of greater offenses than they actually committed, will plea bargain to crimes they did not commit to avoid trials as part of a risk/benefit analysis; that the government routinely overcharges to encourage pleas, and that government prosecutors will threaten a defendant's wife, children or other family with prosecution in cases to encourage a plea; that quasi-criminal charges in a civil Rico or administrative case or forfeiture proceedings amount to criminal punishment without under the lesser "preponderance of the evidence" standard.<br /><br />Excluding plea bargains which would quadruple this number, I think a conviction error rate of 10% is fair enough.Jack Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17873320680596889057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-51855060788194003652017-12-29T06:06:02.984-08:002017-12-29T06:06:02.984-08:00Thank you for sourcing the quotation....Thank you for sourcing the quotation....Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-84094974967920059292017-12-29T05:52:07.382-08:002017-12-29T05:52:07.382-08:00Blackstone's formulation
In criminal law, Blac...Blackstone's formulation<br />In criminal law, Blackstone's formulation is the principle that: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer",...as expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work, Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in the 1760s.<br />BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, letter to Benjamin Vaughan, March 14, 1785.—The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Albert H. Smyth, vol. 9, p. 293 (1906).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-10866230815925766592017-12-29T05:16:22.495-08:002017-12-29T05:16:22.495-08:00The response from the women will be "just sto...The response from the women will be "just stop harassing us" which is obviously a complete impasse. Can women collectively take the law in their hands and demand to be hired at certain proportions within a company?whitneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01339343160301118530noreply@blogger.com