If you ban SSG and Eldrazi Mimic you bring the power level of the Eldrazi decks back down to competitive (versus ban worthy). You also hit two degenerate combo decks that, from my experience playing them and against them, are ban worthy. Unfortunately they probably will just ban both sol lands plus reality smasher and thought-knot due to the hysteria I'm seeing on this thread and elsewhere and leave SSG untouched.
Hi Jay13x, I just don't have the time to break down AJ's article listing every problem.
Here is a theory-Raising a generation of people to see everything in western society as sexist will have the effect of producing people who see everything in western society as sexist no matter how weak or paradoxical the evidence.
If your narrative concerning counterspell involves banning other cards to make it safe for modern or nullifying the rules concerning legailty in modern then the answer is "YES counterspell is too good for modern".
They have been slitting boys throats, setting them on fire, and lining them up against walls and gunning them down in large numbers but that is not considered news worthy. The media has reframed Boko Haram as a group opposed to womens education even though their name means "against western education" and girls who enjoy a protected status and thus are not being killed are reframed as the "real victims".
Bitsy-I cannot stress enough that the idea that men can have it all is total BS. Men who work to support a traditional family are making sacrifices just like their partner.
Important questions that need answering are: Why are women asked to choose between parenthood and career when men are not?
Men have always been expected to be the breadwinner, so the feminist (somehow turn having all the options into victomhood) reframing you've done here misses the point women can have 2 modes here men can only have 1 mode here (the vast majority of the time). Studies have shown that while 95+% of men will support a stay at home partner or a partner that wants to work less and serve as the primary caregiver only 26% of women would agree to the same. That said in the aftermath few women are happy with the arrangement (working while their partner is the primary caregiver) while men are largely happy to go either way.
Why are women's childbearing capabilities balanced against her work experience and qualification before she's even hired?
I suspect this much like "stereotype threat" is just an attempt to shoehorn different outcomes into a oppressor/victim narrative.
What men's real concerns and problems with their female coworkers?(this is so hard to get a firm grasp on because men don't often speak candidly about what's going on in their minds)
I cant imagine why, we only tell them to shutup and that they have had to much time in the spotlight (privilege) the instant they try to open up.
Why aren't men demanding more fringe benefits(paternity leave, day care stipends, etc) from employers to ease the burden on their partner/spouse?
You mean like some sort of movement to empower the everyday man, like some sort of Mens Rights Movement?
Prior to industrialization, women were expected to work from sun up to sun down
YESSSS and it wasnt until the point that changed that traditional gender roles could even be questioned. Men created the technology that freed women from that crushing load that necessity had created. Now it's time for feminists to give up the petty tribalism and peevish rancor and let men escape their oppressive role.
It took two groups to make that system work, women in the private sphere and men in the public sphere. Forced child support etc was the male half written into law. We need to complete the transformation but only going half way is terrible for all.
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Here is a theory-Raising a generation of people to see everything in western society as sexist will have the effect of producing people who see everything in western society as sexist no matter how weak or paradoxical the evidence.
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"(Is)stacked against them" is hardly the case no group has ever enjoyed the level of privilege and protections western woman enjoy.
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Here's an article discussing SJW's and their mindset...
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/social-justice-and-words-words-words/
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Both of these seem unlikely as elves and gorgons do no appear to be Tarkirian races.
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In a thread about a radical islamist terrorist group.
Thanks for that desperatly needed dose of perspective Lordowlington you are truly the the most just of us all!
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Men have always been expected to be the breadwinner, so the feminist (somehow turn having all the options into victomhood) reframing you've done here misses the point women can have 2 modes here men can only have 1 mode here (the vast majority of the time). Studies have shown that while 95+% of men will support a stay at home partner or a partner that wants to work less and serve as the primary caregiver only 26% of women would agree to the same. That said in the aftermath few women are happy with the arrangement (working while their partner is the primary caregiver) while men are largely happy to go either way.
I suspect this much like "stereotype threat" is just an attempt to shoehorn different outcomes into a oppressor/victim narrative.
I cant imagine why, we only tell them to shutup and that they have had to much time in the spotlight (privilege) the instant they try to open up.
You mean like some sort of movement to empower the everyday man, like some sort of Mens Rights Movement?
YESSSS and it wasnt until the point that changed that traditional gender roles could even be questioned. Men created the technology that freed women from that crushing load that necessity had created. Now it's time for feminists to give up the petty tribalism and peevish rancor and let men escape their oppressive role.
It took two groups to make that system work, women in the private sphere and men in the public sphere. Forced child support etc was the male half written into law. We need to complete the transformation but only going half way is terrible for all.