JoeyHarrington

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Well okay. I guess this is pretty emotionally charged for a bunch of people and I apologize to all of you. I do think that comparing the word female to the "n word" is excessively overdramatic. And the word female is still not offensive to the general population no matter what you or I may think. It's apparently offensive to social justice warriors like yourself (thank you for the downvotes I guess) and hey that's okay because I'm not one to judge even if I do ultimately judge. What you think about me doesn't matter I still know what person I am. And hey I am over 50 so I know what that n word usage was like; I'll tell you right now it was offensive then and it has remained offensive.

Perhaps you should reprioritize some things in your psyche if you think that the word female is in any way on par with the n-word.

You are correct. I don't know what it's like to be a woman nor to be objectified cuz to be candid I'm pretty average and there aren't many people that are going to objectify me. But I'll continue to think you and people like you are part of the problem by giving weight to the idea that this is an offensive word.

Peace out my brother or sister whether you're male or female, binary or undecided. I'm sure I didn't change your mind and I'm sure you didn't change my mind.

Edit: also I feel like you're kind of a dick lul

I don't care I guess? I know what I'm about.

Just kind of pointing out that the propagation of ideas that look down on people for using inoffensive words doesn't really help anything. I'm not perfect and would never claim to be, but male and female are words that have been around and used my entire life inoffensively. I occasionally use the word female and I even feel weird about it afterwards because of this strange association, and then I feel mildly annoyed that I even think about it. For what it's worth, I will even occasionally use the word male to describe a male

I definitely get the pointing out of using the word female to describe women by misogynists and incels, but I wouldn't have even thought of the word being used in that manner when I read this post which is why I even commented on it in the first place.

Male/female is only weird if you make it weird. Female is easier to type and say than "women/girls". People have imposed this interesting dynamic about how men look at women or talk about women (and girl childs) that sometimes female might be the best word in some context. It's not some obscure word, it's commonly understood. Just let it go and don't feed into the weirdness.

Nobody should be expected to believe in faith. Religions claim that something is true so it is on them to prove it. But it cannot be proven thus their claim should not be given due consideration. So the assumption is that science is real and religion is not.

We may as well believe in science I guess.

It's getting cheaper and cheaper. For me 1 gb is fantastic for wfh, multiple gamer children, video streaming, photo uploads and nobody notices when I'm downloading 100gb of data. Again everybody's situation is different, so for me 1gb has been huge. And that makes the blanket statement about it not being worth it false.

Using vpn for anonymity is a relatively new usage of the technology. Typically vpn is/was used for remote access to corporate networks. Its popularity as a privacy tool may mislead many to think that's the only reason to use one.

To answer your question, the point of a VPN is to provide a secure end-to-end tunnel between two endpoints, that's it.

I'm quite curious to see how this plays out in regards to employees remotely accessing their corporate network because that's that's going to cause logistical, technical, and likely financial issues for most businesses.