I'm questioning the differences, and I don't think that such policies should be implemented with sex as the divider. I see no problem with implementing such policies with students of either sex being able to opt in.

There was a dude on here arguing a couple weeks ago that the behavior and parental involvement of each parent prior to the divorce shouldn't be taken into account in custody arrangements. There's no making these weirdos happy.

I don't really know what to say other than I'm sorry and I wish I could make things not so hard.

There's just no way to win. So have a beer for me, until this thing bursts out of my chest like an alien.

I don't think they agree with my underlying choice to have a child. I think most people agree with the choice of white, middle-to-upper class, able-bodied, educated women to have children.

It's a weird thing. My family is urban, and my husband's is rural. I feel like both our families have been pretty supportive of delayed child-having, but I do think they'd be upset if we never chose to have kids. And family is a big thing; feeling apart from your family sucks. And feeling like you don't fit in with…

Yeah, dude, because I've never been called a selfish, heartless, cold witch for choosing to go back to work after kids. Strangers don't try to touch my stomach when they see I'm pregnant. No one asked if I knew who the dad was in the summer when my skin gets really dark and I don't pass anymore. No one physically took…

I think the child-free movement is in this nascent stage, and to prove its worth, many members feel the need to make the case really strongly that childfree women are discriminated against while denying that any discrimination exists against women with children. Just looking at the comments on this thread, it's clear…

For sure, and being mommy-tracked following my first marriage over my protestations was a big reason I pursued more education (I didn't deceive anyone, I really thought I wouldn't have kids). It's almost like society praises child rearing with its right hand and penalizes it with the left.

In your opinion, what is a motherhood issue? Because it seems like you think there are no issues that are unique to mothehood, and no problems that can be attributed to motherhood as opposed to general womanhood.

I still disagree. I think society advertises motherhood as a good thing a lot, but that the support for actual women who choose to be mothers is really not there. We're a far cry from the rest of the world being on our side. The rest of the world is the Republican party: extolling the virtues of babies, while leaving…

I fundamentally disagree with this. I think on the level of your friends and acquaintances, sure it must be annoying to be asked about your choice to not have kids. I get asked about my choice to keep my last name, and that conversation gets old. But mothers face very real wage discrimination and curtailing of their…

Too bad we don't agree on that. Boys aren't being disadvantaged by the educational system.

So what you're saying is that children who don't conform to your idea of the gender binary can suck it. I don't even know why I'm arguing with you, you started this entire conversation in bad faith and based on bad science.

I don't think you deserve a point-by-point refutation, as you basically link-dumped that paper as a trump card to avoid actualy explaining your views, but the point about oxytocin based on Rhoads (2004) ignores the considerable within-sex genetic variation with regards to sex, and, perhaps more importantly, ignores…

The stat compares women against white men. Within each of the racial categories examined, the wage gap is tennish percent (white women v. white men, black women vs. black men). So the stat is really a race-by-sex comparison. But the gap between white women and white men is a little bigger than any of the other…

I didn't say experimentation is the only way to study discrimination. But experimentation is the only way to isolate what the factors at play truly are. For example, you can look and see that men graduate college less. You can also look and see that many blue collar, but stable and secure jobs (plumbers, electricians…

"but I will note right now that when girls are disadvantaged in some way the simple disparate results are considered incontrovertible proof of discrimination."

Yeah, and this is something Paul's link dump doesn't really address. The "boys are disadvantaged" crowd is really scatter shot. In the 50's, boys performed better than girls, but things like active learning weren't really the norm - lecture and recitation and reading was. I'm in k-12 schools a lot volunteering, and…

Can I point out that the author, in that report (which is not actually peer-reviewed and published anywhere, hence, it is innappropriate to call it a paper) states that her ideas are speculative and that peer-reviewed data is not available for all of her supporting points? Hell, at one point, she uses the number of…