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adrianN
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Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Wo...
Why do you think that it's a poor comparison?
GrayTextIsTruth
on Sept 30, 2019
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there are more homeless men than women. So that's like targeting men to give free food and shelter because more men need it, which wouldn't happen.
ptah
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i think you are trying to stretch the metaphor too far
GrayTextIsTruth
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its more accurate. targeting the underrepresented cohort.
ptah
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no, you are applying the thing "metaphorised" inside the metaphor. it is quite wrongheaded tbh
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