TL;DR - The Sound of Crumbling Narratives [22/Apr/15]

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The hills are alive with the sound of bullshit.

Sarah Silverman's only regret is being a bad liar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU4EH_iv2hE
https://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/sarah-silverman-apologizes-wage-gap-anecdote--equalpayday-173943466.html
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416974/sarah-silverman-admits-she-made-wage-gap-story-then-calls-critics-maniacs-katherine

Men are more often the victims of pretty much every type of violence:
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv03.pdf

The pay gap myth of 77c to every $1 is a myth:
http://www.aauw.org/files/2013/02/graduating-to-a-pay-gap-the-earnings-of-women-and-men-one-year-after-college-graduation.pdf
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2006/oct/wk1/art03.htm
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2008/jun/wk4/art04.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/gender-equality/files/2007report_on_equal_pay_for_pub_-final_en.pdf

Reddit bans salary negotiation because men will often negotiate better than women and that's SEXIST!:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/04/08/reddit-ceo-ellen-pao-bans-salary-negotiations-to-equalize-pay/

Women are less likely to negotiate pay/job type/promotion than men:
http://www.ne.su.se/polopoly_fs/1.99257.1346412310!/menu/standard/file/anna_sandberg.pdf
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/29/AR2007072900827.html

Women are discriminated against in STEM... apparently:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/feb/08/sexual-discrimination-women-scientists-institutional
https://twitter.com/roseveleth/status/532538957490561024/photo/1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/14/study-finds-surprisingly-that-women-are-favored-for-jobs-in-stem/
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/04/08/1418878112.abstract

Sexism in video games:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27824701
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-11-26/anita-sarkeesian-battles-sexism-in-games-gamergate-harassment

Video games don't cause violence:
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/violent-video-games-dont-lead-to-increases-in-viol/1100-6422421/
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcom.12129/full#abstract
http://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/value-violent-video-games-research-roundup
http://interpersonalresearch.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/4/0/10405979/ppmc_-_vvgs_and_real-world_violence.pdf

Video games also don't cause sexism:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2015/04/10/new-study-finds-no-link-between-gaming-and-sexist-attitudes/
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/cyber.2014.0492

Further information on the ESRB and how video games are categorised by content:
http://www.esrb.org/index-js.jsp

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