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by 8_hours_ago 4145 days 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

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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.