Everyone Loves Alex from Target

A random girl who goes by the Twitter name "Rim" took a creeper picture of this guy named Alex who was bagging groceries at Target.

He has now gone viral and has a whole Twitter following overnight. Here is an interesting news piece: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/who-is-alex-from-target-and-why-should-i-even-begin-101686693754.html

Oh, and his girlfriend is getting hate mail.

Hmm, why? Because Murcia meets internet.

Pinkie: I don't love Alex from Target. Should I do an AMA?

admin: Lol, *Almost Everyone Loves Alex from Target. Mmm, yes, an AMA is deserved.

Please no AMAs!

Pinkie: Oh and of course if it was a boy taking a picture of a girl all the feminists would start raging, double standards.

SebUK: I'm a feminist and I would be ok with a boy taking a picture of a girl.

admin: But would you really say the feminist community would have overall the same reaction as you?

SebUK: Feminism just means supporting rights and equality of women. I think most people support women having equality and rights, they just differ on how drastically one ought to interpret those words. So most people are feminist. I also think most people would not care either way about those kinds of pictures if it didn't affect them. People are apathetic to that kind of thing.

SebUK: I will grant that the more VISIBLE part of the feminist community that shouts the loudest would not have the same reaction as me though.

admin: That could be what it stood for , but it doesn't stand for just the equality of women anymore , tell me in what ways are women in the West legally treated unequally. I can list you ways in which men are for example circumcision . Ultimately it is the community who defines the movement and the community no longer stands for gender equality instead it stands for society giving women excuses .

SebUK: It's not just about legality, it's about society. In the western world, men are still paid more than women, on average. Women still do the most work around home and still do the most with the children. When a couple seperates, the standard of living usually decreases for females and increases for males. Limiting equality to legal specifications is narrow-minded and oversimplified.
Amd real feminists don't look for excuses.

SebUK: Also, let me say this: I believe in men's rights too.

Even if our society were perfectly equal then the belief in this equality would still be feminism.

sea_shell: ''real feminists'' A bit of a Scotsman fallacy don't you think? . Well first of all I don't believe in gender equality let's make that clear I only support equality under the law . The wage gap has been refuted so many times , yes on average women make less money then men but if you calculate education , job choices , children and work experience then it becomes clear it has nothing to do with discrimination. If a women really made only 75% of what a man makes for the same job don't you think that businesses would want to hire only women ? . '' No matter how many times this wage gap claim is decisively refuted by economists, it always comes back. The bottom line: the 23-cent gender pay gap is simply the difference between the average earnings of all men and women working full-time. It does not account for differences in occupations, positions, education, job tenure or hours worked per week. When such relevant factors are considered, the wage gap narrows to the point of vanishing.

Wage gap activists say women with identical backgrounds and jobs as men still earn less. But they always fail to take into account critical variables. Activist groups like the National Organization for Women have a fallback position: that women’s education and career choices are not truly free—they are driven by powerful sexist stereotypes. In this view, women’s tendency to retreat from the workplace to raise children or to enter fields like early childhood education and psychology, rather than better paying professions like petroleum engineering, is evidence of continued social coercion. Here is the problem: American women are among the best informed and most self-determining human beings in the world. To say that they are manipulated into their life choices by forces beyond their control is divorced from reality and demeaning, to boot.

Why do these reckless claims have so much appeal and staying power? For one thing, there is a lot of statistical illiteracy among journalists, feminist academics and political leaders. There is also an admirable human tendency to be protective of women—stories of female exploitation are readily believed, and vocal skeptics risk appearing indifferent to women’s suffering. Finally, armies of advocates depend on “killer stats” to galvanize their cause. But killer stats obliterate distinctions between more and less serious problems and send scarce resources in the wrong directions. They also promote bigotry. The idea that American men are annually enslaving more than 100,000 girls, sending millions of women to emergency rooms, sustaining a rape culture and cheating women out of their rightful salary creates rancor in true believers and disdain in those who would otherwise be sympathetic allies.''- http://time.com/3222543/5-feminist-myths-that-will-not-die/

admin: Well I simply do not agree , we can agree to disagree . A truly gender egalitarian movement would stand for both genders.

SebUK: We can agree that a truly gender egalitarian movement would stand for both genders.

Regardless, boys taking pictures of girls is creepy only when girls taking pictures of boys is creepy IMO. Just another reason not to judge people by labels that anyone can call themselves with no clear agreement on definition, like "feminist" lol.