I wish you’d quit making this personal: I’m just talking about in general here dude.
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Sure they do. They are absolutely not equal or even above in earning potential.
It’s getting slimmer by the year, but absolutely still exists. Personally in the staffing industry the remainder is chalked up to aggressiveness in negotiating pay.
I’m literally in the analytics dept of a staffing company servicing the largest companies in the country. You might as well be telling me women are as tall, or taller than men, on average.
Edit: You want to see some really depressing gender gap shit? Look at wages in India by gender. That shit is real wage gap. America’s playing a kid’s game compared to that
True enough
It’s from a socially driven view that women should pull their weight financially which allows them to be more independent. It’s the major driver for women existing in the workforce at this level.
Nothing’s worse than a feminazi…
Was she at least hot?
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My bad. But fuck it was even the point of that particular story that she had the gall to say that. Let’s stop trying to nab me on everything, eh?
She wasn’t a feminazi, she was just a hypocrite young girl bouncing talking points. She was cute, and I did hook up with her anyways. But when I heard she made a jab at me about that to her coworkers (which I knew one) I stopped answering her late night booty calls.
Apparently she liked fat guys 
Seriously. Imagine the GALL one would have to say they only date people 5 years younger than them!
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Again, what was the point? It was to intentionally burn that person. I’ve dated women 10 years older as well.
Are we back to talking about Camus again?
I can’t. all this back and forth has made me hungry. I’m craving a chic-fil-A but I can’t do it, T-Nation wants a bod pic and I need to have my abs showing a little.
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You use the word “can’t” a lot.
You may prefer to read some of the stoics.
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@greenboy this is a pretty good book. I got it.
If someone gives enough of a crap to read that, they’re most likely already doing a great job.
The problem is that the people who need to read it are the driving force in all of the problems the book addresses.
They ain’t gonna read that crap!
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Dude if you were spending less time here and more doing cardio and preparing meals you would have abs
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@greenboy - this is a legitimate recommendation. If you are inclined to read with an open mind and think about what you’re reading I’d recommend ‘The Enchiridion’ by Epictetus, the Gregory Hays translation of ‘Meditations’ by Marcus Aurelius, and/or ‘Letters from a Stoic’ by Seneca.
I’d also recommend reading ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ by Daniel Kahneman … it’s such a fascinating read into how human’s think, our shortcomings in thinking, and how to recognize them.
I know you’ve poo poo’d what you think of as “self help” advice or w/e but these are some legitimately interesting reads and may provide you with a different perspective than the one you currently have demonstrated as having throughout this conversation. If nothing, approach it with some intellectual curiosity…
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Good. God.
My wife suggested I do something like this as a joke (I think it was a joke … I laughed at her like it was a joke. In retrospect, she pursed her lips, kept her head low and glanced up at me with her eyes and burrow frowed … she may have been serious…coincidentally, she suggested I sleep in the guest room that night … hmmm)
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Clearly compartment syndrome from a botched test injection. FAKER!
-kidding. Nice work btw.
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Yup. I’m not even the biggest fan of stoicism as a philosophy, but I think there’s something to be said about appreciating how YOU control how you react to stimuli. How you feel is a choice. Relinquishing that power to others is giving up a LOT of autonomy.
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The Stoics would disagree. Our feelings are not choices. How we react to them is. Letting your feelings, your emotions, overtake your reason and rationality is a choice … as it is also a choice to control your yourself despite your emotions - of course this takes a conscious effort and training to understand why you’re having the emotional reaction to w/e external stimulus and maintain your reason. They considered anger to be temporary madness (i.e. you no longer can exercise reason in the face of an extreme emotional reaction to some external event).
This is spot on. I’m a big fan of Jocko Wilnick and he has a saying that discipline is freedom - what you said here goes hand in hand with that saying, I think.
But yea the rest of your post is spot on.