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No, I think that the whole scenario of going out of my way to make you feel comfortable is absolutely wrong.  It doesn't smack of equality in any measure.  It only serves to elevate women to a stature of higher class individuals where men are mere peasants to their whim.  "Excuse me ma'am, but can I ask for your attention?"  If rejected, you have to bow politely three times and back away as to not be mistaken for showing aggression.  Obviously, women deserve this sort of treatment because they are much more respectable people opposed to us despicable sex driven male pigs.

When I was about 14 through 17, hanging around in an urban environment, with no car, and spending a lot of time at night on foot going places, I learned to do this trick. Say I'm walking down State Street and it's 1:00 AM and there's a woman walking in front of me in the same direction. With very few exceptions, I'll overtake her, and there will then be this long, maybe one-third of a city block long period when I'm right behind her, then right next to her, then just in front of her.

From any of those three vantage points, I could grab her. From behind, or from next to her, or by turning around and grabbing her from the front. Then I could push her to the ground and drag her into an alley or whatever.

But I would not do that. Therefore, the woman walking alone at 1:00 AM in the morning downtown has nothing to worry about, right? Well, actually, since she does not know me she has a great deal to worry about because the chances that some guy walking (fast) alone down State Street in the middle of the night is a perfectly nice guy who will do no harm (me) vs. the chance that the guy is some sort of sexual assaulter or mugger is hard to assess, and the chance of the latter being the case is far from zero.

So I learned this trick. Cross the street about a block back and "pass" the lady that way. Same with a potential head-on encounter. If you see a woman walking towards you in the middle of the night on a lonely urban street, my practice in those days was to cross the street to not stress her out.
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All men. ALL men who have given sufficient consideration to women's position in our society do this walking trick. If you are a man and you do not know about this trick then there is a problem with you.

The level of mysandry involved in her defence matched the misogyny

And if you’re fervently resisting that help… then I have to assume that getting laid is not the point.

When women explain to you — in a calm, nuanced, proportionate way — that there are some contexts in which your advances are less likely to be well-received than others, and you respond by sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming about ball-busting, man-hating feminists who are hell-bent on eradicating all flirting and sex and eroding your First Amendment right to proposition any woman at any time and place? When you resist hearing that hitting on a woman who’s alone in an elevator in a strange city at four o’clock in the morning is not likely to be well-received, that it’s likely to be perceived as a potential threat, and that you are likely to be perceived as an insensitive clod at best if you do it? When we explain ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, that elevators are well-documented as a common place for women to get raped and that it’s therefore not an appropriate place to make sexual advances — and you still reply, “But I don’t understand what the problem is with elevators”?

I have to assume that getting laid is not the point.

I have to assume that the point is something entirely different. I have to assume that you will do anything to resist hearing that women experience male advances in a very different context from the way men experience female advances. I have to assume that you have an active resistance to understanding that women’s experiences are different from men’s: that (among other things) women routinely get our professional/ intellectual/ artistic accomplishments dismissed in favor of a focus on our sexual attractiveness, and that women have to be seriously cautious about physical and sexual violence from men. When you are so vehemently unwilling to see some of the ways that privilege works in your favor, I have to assume that maintaining privilege is the point.

I did not see misogyny in the incident in the elevator at all.

So, I've just one question: when a woman actually expects the man she's attracted to to be the active side, is she misogynistic or misandric?

It is almost impossible to perfectly synchronize two signals simultaneously when they are different distances from a satellite, and that satellite is moving.

tldr; of the article: clocks were synced using satellites whose velocity led to slight relativistic changes in the times sent out, fully accounting for the 60 nanosecond difference.