[dominotw]

Wow another privileged woman speaking about her "feels".

I take a bus with Mexican woman whose husband beats her but she is too scared to go to law enforcement( her being an illegal immigrant and all).

The contrast between two women is insane. Yet we talk everyday endlessly about the former not the latter. I am disgusted by this whole thing. Seriously WTF.

[intev]

Just because the Mexican woman is in a worse situation compared to the Stanford grad, it doesn't make the Stanford grad's situation any less worse. If you were not allowed to eat any food once a week, and I told you "there's starving children in Africa with NO food 3 times a week" does that make you feel better about your situation? You also happen to be posting on a tech website, so that would explain why we talk about the former and not the latter. Outside silicon valley no one cares about the former but there are many organizations trying their best to help with the latter.

[8_hours_ago]

In case you were wondering, that argument is known as the fallacy of relative privation: "an opponent's arguments should be dismissed or ignored, on the grounds of there existing more important problems, despite these issues being often completely unrelated to the subject at hand."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation

[dominotw]

I knew someone would post this. I am talking about two people who work in the same office but one is treated like a princesses and another like invisible.

This whole gender gap thing is used by profiteers like "diversity consultants", media outlets like the original post for page views.

[dominotw]

I am talking about women from the same society,I am not comparing women living under ISIS and the Standford grad. Why twist my words?

[dominotw]

> Outside silicon valley no one cares about the former

Are you kidding me?

[stmchn]

Just because other issues exists in the world doesn't invalidate issues elsewhere. There will always be someone who has it worse than you.

The next time you talk about your "feels" as you put it, see how you'd feel if someone guilted you because at least you're not a starving impoverished child with ebola in a third world country.

[dominotw]

This is our country I am talking about not a third world country. Do you want to live in a society where one section of population is treated like precious princesses and another like dirt?

[seanflyon]

It is right to be disgusted with domestic violence, but that does not mean that you should not care about other problems. We should not limit ourselves to only care about the single worst problem.

[dominotw]

I never said we should limit ourselves but the attention given should be proportionate to the suffering.