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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 1 Jun 2014

    The idea that the UCSB murders are part of a pattern of hatred against women is statistically obtuse | http://goo.gl/5PfwsS 

    1:05 PM - 1 Jun 2014
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      2. ‏بوكيبلينكي‏ @pookleblinky 1 Jun 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        Your a statistically obtuse dick now, @sapinker. Congratulations.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Dung Quixote‏ @Pokey_ebooks 1 Jun 2014
        Replying to @pookleblinky

        @pookleblinky You're. #NotAllGrammarians

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. ‏بوكيبلينكي‏ @pookleblinky 1 Jun 2014
        Replying to @Pokey_ebooks

        @Pokey_ebooks He's on the Dawkins Cycle of Stellar Evolution, from scientist to shitlord

        2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
      5. uberfeminist‏ @uberfeminist 15 Jun 2014
        Replying to @pookleblinky

        Nice theory there, Nobel Prize material @pookleblinky @Pokey_ebooks

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      6. ‏بوكيبلينكي‏ @pookleblinky 15 Jun 2014
        Replying to @uberfeminist

        You have an Ayn Rand avi. @uberfeminist @Pokey_ebooks

        3 replies 2 retweets 3 likes
      7. uberfeminist‏ @uberfeminist 15 Jun 2014
        Replying to @pookleblinky

        Prove it. @pookleblinky @Pokey_ebooks

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Wallace Wylie‏ @WallaceWylie 1 Jun 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker If a man kills another man over a woman he considers his property, that is misogyny. The term "hatred against women" obscures this

        2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
      3. ɐɯɐɹp,o ןǝɯ‏ @gotcaffeine 1 Jun 2014
        Replying to @WallaceWylie

        @WallaceWylie @sapinker Well said.

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      1. Cara‏ @carakalikimaka 1 Jun 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker I guess I shouldn't be surprised that yet another white man has completely failed to grasp the point

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      1. Staffan‏ @Paradigmian 1 Jun 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Agreed. Has there ever been a spree killer who was just an extreme misogynist and otherwise normal?

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      2. Cara‏ @carakalikimaka 1 Jun 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @AlyssaHertig what the absolute fuck? This article is full of misinformation & sexist garbage. Blaming the mentally ill. Fuck this

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
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      1. Ellen Fridland‏ @EllenFridland 1 Jun 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker- linking to a brazenly misogynistic article to prove that the US is not misogynistic--oh, the irony.

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      1. Jeffrey Guterman‏Verified account @JeffreyGuterman 1 Jun 2014
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        . @sapinker There is so much unsaid in this tweet by Steven Pinker, and too much said in the article he cited.

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      1. shawn‏ @shawnbeonkey 1 Jun 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker which informs him that women are his to own. I’m not sure that this article has been convincing in refuting that.

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      2. Cara‏ @carakalikimaka 1 Jun 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker this article blames violent acts on mental health? Mentally ill people are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. earl mcbakersfield‏ @Viscers 1 Jun 2014
        Replying to @carakalikimaka

        @carakalikimaka @sapinker A statistical average is just that, averages don't account for all situations, mass killings are not 'average'.

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      2. Cara‏ @carakalikimaka 1 Jun 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker are you really so obtuse? The majority of killers of women are men. There is a very real problem of male against female violence

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