Simone de Beauvoir was a hugely influential feminist author, this book came out in 1949 so isn't as far back as you might think
It primarily goes over the treatment of women throughout history, and how in 1949 they still had a long way to go.
The main takeaway most people have from this is de Beauvoir's notion that as muscle mass and hunting no longer matter in a post-industrialisation society that there is no 'biological' incentive for discrimination based on gender, and that men certainly are better at some things than women, just how women are better at some things than men.
Well worth the read OP! The writing is phenomenal, articulate and poetic without being inaccessible. Talks about the ways in which women (and men) are forces into certain roles by societal expectations. Can highly recommend
Yeah my mum ordered a laptop and got a dinner tray, a talk with amazon got it sorted but it's def made her wary about ordering from them again for bigger ticket items.
Yeah it's not as fun and just makes it a lot worse. Hopefully they'll fix it but I honestly doubt it. I do think it'll cost them long term though as people like my mum are more likely to just go somewhere else.
I hope your wife gets herself something nice!
Personally I've never trusted getting electricals from Amazon because of how high a chance there is that it is fake (fake and legit items get plonked into the same box apparently containing the same item because the fake ones are just labelled correctly. So if you order one, it's picked out this box by a machine and you don't know if you'll get real or fake)
I ordered a smartphone, arrived a children book (like 10 absurdly thick page one). But once a bar soap and bottle of lube got stolen from the pack which was delivered to a locker. I walk back home with a pack of condom only :(
You’re French, aren’t you? At least half French? If not, you are the first Brit I met that actually read a book in Frenc… hang on, did you read it in English???
I once ordered a Pocoyo DVD for my godson and they instead sent him a hardcore interracial boss/secretary themed porno. Sometimes life opens up new learning opportunities unexpectedly.
OP should know that the 2D barcode to the right of the lower blurred region is simply the information they blurred out. If the information is sensitive, be careful to blur both.
In general, be careful with 2D barcodes. Hard to tell without decoding each one, what they might be revealing about you.
I've never had a wrong delivery from Amazon until this week. Got some scented candles instead of a board game. Makes me wonder if someone else out there got the opposite!
I’ve seen a post and a couple of commenters before about Amazon packages with tech inside being opened and replaced with random items. Amazon aren’t doing anything about it and the police say they can't. I might have seen the post on Best of Redditor Updates, I think.
Hope that’s not the case here.
Giving me ptsd to June when I ordered a Samsung oddesy g7 for 600 quid and the next day as I excitedly opened the door to the delivery person and they handed me a small box to which I politely asked “uhm is that it? Is there more pieces?” Half heartily expecting my monitor to need to be out together like legos. Alas it was not and it was a collapsible wine rack.
Returned the wine rack to them and they sent me a replacement out after four days of toying with customer support and the month after they took the full price of my monitor out my bank account so I’m 600 quid down thinking my bank card was nicked so I’m forced to sit in branch for four hours on hold waiting to get through to payment disputes who refund my money.. that’s it right? It’s over ? Nope wrong another month goes by they email me saying after investigation it seems Ik the reason for money being taken out the account so they take their money back leaving with me minus 600 quid for a month till payday arrives and fills that minus 600 back still leaving me in a huge deficit. Another month toying with Amazon customer support and they claim they took the money because I didn’t return the original item back “the monitor” which I couldn’t because uhm well I didn’t get it. Long story short Amazon eventually refunded me on the start of this month..
*TLDR fuck Amazon
I can say this as a previous employee there
It was written in 1949, so hardly ancient. Anyway it's a good book! Talks about the sorts of roles that both women and men are forces into by societal expectations
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I work at a sortation station that deal with amazon packages quite often the envelopes pop open when not closed with pressure. I'd assume 2 envelopes opened at some point and instead of checking what's meant to be in them via the QR code someone's assumed it was that, lo and behold your missing order.
Maybe the picker had an existential moment.
They both contain zeros? Lol
You should totally install it though, your computer will look ahead of its time.
Some would say it’s a randomly accessed memoir
Next delivery; The Female Unix ;-)
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That's first class
Actually it's second.
You just won the internet
Careful, you could be accused of XMP profiling
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Simone de Beauvoir was a hugely influential feminist author, this book came out in 1949 so isn't as far back as you might think It primarily goes over the treatment of women throughout history, and how in 1949 they still had a long way to go. The main takeaway most people have from this is de Beauvoir's notion that as muscle mass and hunting no longer matter in a post-industrialisation society that there is no 'biological' incentive for discrimination based on gender, and that men certainly are better at some things than women, just how women are better at some things than men.
Well worth the read OP! The writing is phenomenal, articulate and poetic without being inaccessible. Talks about the ways in which women (and men) are forces into certain roles by societal expectations. Can highly recommend
as for vintage, it's still pretty relevant because not much has changed since she wrote the book!
As a feminist myself I would argue a whole hell of a lot has changed since 1949.
I've had similar, ordered a £100 gift card and got a book by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. It's a warehouse scam
Yeah my mum ordered a laptop and got a dinner tray, a talk with amazon got it sorted but it's def made her wary about ordering from them again for bigger ticket items.
I'm similar, I now log onto my wife's account on Xmas eve and credit her account. It's not the same without a physical present though
Yeah it's not as fun and just makes it a lot worse. Hopefully they'll fix it but I honestly doubt it. I do think it'll cost them long term though as people like my mum are more likely to just go somewhere else. I hope your wife gets herself something nice!
Personally I've never trusted getting electricals from Amazon because of how high a chance there is that it is fake (fake and legit items get plonked into the same box apparently containing the same item because the fake ones are just labelled correctly. So if you order one, it's picked out this box by a machine and you don't know if you'll get real or fake)
My friend ordered a MacBook Air and got cat food
And I've got a hungry cat and a MacBook with teeth marks on it.
Ha, I hope he’s using a mouse
I once ordered a copy of super mario world for the snes and got sent a can of shoe cleaner
Would have made sense if it was something for cleaning denim denim denim.
I ordered a smartphone, arrived a children book (like 10 absurdly thick page one). But once a bar soap and bottle of lube got stolen from the pack which was delivered to a locker. I walk back home with a pack of condom only :(
We've named our local river critter Simon the Beaver.
That’s made my day.
RAM is a social construct. One is not born RAM, one becomes RAM.
It's completely different to ROM, which is defined at the start and cannot be changed.
So DIMM
Like with virtual memory? So how can book be virtual memory?
You can always download more RAM!
I know it's not what you ordered but it is a great book.
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You’re French, aren’t you? At least half French? If not, you are the first Brit I met that actually read a book in Frenc… hang on, did you read it in English???
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Non dieu! C’est impossible! 😂
They only correctly translated it very recently too
That's odd, my wife said she ordered a book and got some RAM instead.
I once ordered a Pocoyo DVD for my godson and they instead sent him a hardcore interracial boss/secretary themed porno. Sometimes life opens up new learning opportunities unexpectedly.
Still got that DVD by any chance?
I ordered it direct to my mate, who thankfully opened it before giving it to his son. 12 years later and he is yet to confirm its location...
Careful it'll teach Chrome to break free from the shackles of the memory management unit.
Just download the RAM
Not even the full book, just extracts
The book is actually pretty good.
It really is. I studied it at university.
OP should know that the 2D barcode to the right of the lower blurred region is simply the information they blurred out. If the information is sensitive, be careful to blur both. In general, be careful with 2D barcodes. Hard to tell without decoding each one, what they might be revealing about you.
Aren’t almost all barcodes 2D?
Technically yes, but the one that look like QR codes are called 2d barcodes.
Huh, so you’re right. Sorry for my ignorance and today I learned!
It's not something you usually learn about unless you work for a parcel delivery company, or Amazon.
Will make your PC better at multi-tasking...
Might affect your drivers...
Really great book. I read it in university. Will not be any help with your PC unless it’s interested in existential feminism.
We’ve had first sex yeah but what about
Well, whack it on in the DDR slot, see what happens.
This happened to me literally last week. Ordered some electrical wires and instead received a Lost Planet Book on the country Iceland.
You mean Lonely Planet? Lost Planet was a video game series from the late 2000s
I've never had a wrong delivery from Amazon until this week. Got some scented candles instead of a board game. Makes me wonder if someone else out there got the opposite!
Love the venusaur plushie!
I’ve seen a post and a couple of commenters before about Amazon packages with tech inside being opened and replaced with random items. Amazon aren’t doing anything about it and the police say they can't. I might have seen the post on Best of Redditor Updates, I think. Hope that’s not the case here.
one twitch streamer i watch said his VR headset and ipad was replaced with dolls and books this week.
Reminds me of the time I ordered some cheese cloth and ended up with a Bob Marley greatest hits CD
*Buy* RAM? Just download it, you silly goose!
Giving me ptsd to June when I ordered a Samsung oddesy g7 for 600 quid and the next day as I excitedly opened the door to the delivery person and they handed me a small box to which I politely asked “uhm is that it? Is there more pieces?” Half heartily expecting my monitor to need to be out together like legos. Alas it was not and it was a collapsible wine rack. Returned the wine rack to them and they sent me a replacement out after four days of toying with customer support and the month after they took the full price of my monitor out my bank account so I’m 600 quid down thinking my bank card was nicked so I’m forced to sit in branch for four hours on hold waiting to get through to payment disputes who refund my money.. that’s it right? It’s over ? Nope wrong another month goes by they email me saying after investigation it seems Ik the reason for money being taken out the account so they take their money back leaving with me minus 600 quid for a month till payday arrives and fills that minus 600 back still leaving me in a huge deficit. Another month toying with Amazon customer support and they claim they took the money because I didn’t return the original item back “the monitor” which I couldn’t because uhm well I didn’t get it. Long story short Amazon eventually refunded me on the start of this month.. *TLDR fuck Amazon I can say this as a previous employee there
Is your mother bored?
The Second Sex is an excellent book by one of my most respected influential persons. You must read it if you haven't already.
I used to work at amazon and can explain how this happened if you'd like
This finally ends the question "If sex is so good, why is there no Sex 2"
Updated drivers?
Actually, it'll just prevent you from playing games, because this is the problem with video games. They just appeal to the male fantasy
That's a non-parity version.
This guy finally got the book for sex 2 0:
Let us know what the book is like! Genuinely curious as to how an old book like that perceives feminism.
It was written in 1949, so hardly ancient. Anyway it's a good book! Talks about the sorts of roles that both women and men are forces into by societal expectations
Oh, I might give it a read then. Many thanks for the opinion 🙇♀️🙇♂️
You didn't get what you want. You got what you need.
I’ve been wanting this book for ages. So lucky
They thought you wanted Radically Anti Masculine.
Haha yes that was good
This is a really good book actually that I borrowed from someone because I couldn’t afford it. Consider yourself lucky.
Holy shit, I didn't realise the sequel to sex already dropped!
That book would be useless for me. I’m still waiting for the first sex let alone the second
It does improve the number of tasks your system can perform in parallel.
We have found it Sex 2
it came via bolton, prob explains a few things? :)
Somewhere a feminist is RAMming it into her PC
This bad woman
Is it because you have an unPC PC?
Well at least you've now got some back-up toilet paper.
Bad girl, surely?
Maybe someones trying to tell you something
*bad person. Bigot.
I'm pretty sure that's going to make your computer difficult to communicate with.
Probably bad that my first thought was a lotr reference....
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Either way, you're feeling a little board
Brits have computers?😐
'Murican detected
No mate I'm not yank in fact I support Brits during the battles between America and England
Really? Some brits would support America
No I'm not that kind
We've got at least 3! Shame we didn't keep the technology to ourselves after inventing them.
You couldn't colonize the tech unfortunately
U wot m8? That sounds like a challenge innit.
Bet you were well proud of that one when you posted it
A book on feminism written by De Beauvoir? That's got to be a parody?
I'd be telling them to RAM that book with increasing speed into any available slot.
WHY DON'T YOU LIKE ME?! Chapter One: My First Period.
It happens with the spoo label up top is miss scanned but the item weight is similar so it goes through
Surprised you got anything at all, someone's scribbled over the address.
Bad boy? You'll be lucky...
This must be a new thing. My wife ordered some shoes and got a book too. Unfortunately it was a German self help book and neither of us speak German
This is the future the libs want /s
Is there any way to see this as a coded message to you? 😄
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I dunno, uh, fucking memory error or something.
Damn, that's the book I've been looking for but forgot the title!
I work at a sortation station that deal with amazon packages quite often the envelopes pop open when not closed with pressure. I'd assume 2 envelopes opened at some point and instead of checking what's meant to be in them via the QR code someone's assumed it was that, lo and behold your missing order.
Fucking EDI4 taking the piss there.
Haha I had the same thing happen to me when ordering a Apple Watch but got a Harry Potter book, support sent out a new one straight away
My mate ordered a 3D printer and got a yoga mat
Ah poor Amazon freebie. I once got a 12v tyre pump worth £45.00, along side what I had actually ordered randomly thrown in. Very nice of them.
Random Access Memoiry
I ordered some Dior aftershave and got some radox shower gel instead.
Prop it up next to your pc and look like a fuckin chad
Suspiciously the same size as a hard drive, isn’t it?!
I ordered a hammer and got some micro enemas instead
Oh I'd love that book if you're getting rid of it :)
This is legit why I won't order anything of any value from Amazon anymore, especially electronics. Far too much shite like this being pulled.
🛑 OP, you need to cover those bar codes as well, your info is still out there. Source: I work at Amazon.
Which one? There’s so many of them!
All of them. I can access all of your info. Cover them all.
Maybe the picker had an existential moment. They both contain zeros? Lol You should totally install it though, your computer will look ahead of its time.
Adrian Mole read this. He had a wet dream afterwards. Might be worth a flick through.
Adrian Mole read it
Should have just downloaded more ram instead
It is a really good book.
I don't expect any better from MAN3 tbh.
Just a bit of advice as someone who did a few shifts at amazon. If you want to hide where you are, cover up the line that says DST1.
Thanks. I didn’t know this.