As far as I read, he didn’t mention much about variability in men and women, which is part of the problem. People like this guy hide sexism and racism behind shitty science. They cherry pick small data points in small studies to support what they are saying and ignore evidence that contradicts them. They take those…

No, the average is exactly what this is about. Because any significant differences are examined by finding the average in men and the average in women and then comparing them. What I am saying is that the differences between men and women is not as significant as the variability that exists within the sexes.

Haha! Schools are certainly not set up for girls. Sitting still, behaving, and listening to a teacher is how schools have always been set up. Except, a long time ago, we used to beat children to make them listen. Are you saying we need to beat boys so they can learn?

Any differences shown scientifically also show that there is more variation within genders than between. So two men are more likely to be different than a man and a woman. Also not addressed: how much is socially reinforced versus only biological, and whether we can do anything to change these biases.

Legally equal does not mean functionally equal. For instance, black people had been given the right to vote nationally before they were actually allowed to practice that right due to racist assholes.

But...it’s not science.

No, his point was that women are a certain way and men are a certain way and that is why men are better in tech than women. However, that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, because the fact is that men are more variable than he is saying. If you take a man and a woman and interview them for a job, you will find more…

The average, in this case and many others, is useless. There is more variability within groups than between groups, meaning that if you happen to take any two men, they are likely even more different in personality, interests, IQ, skills, etc. than a man and a woman. You can make a claim about women being more…

Except, as I mentioned, you absolutely did ask for things and your parents absolutely gave things to you. Therefore you would owe your parents for everything that you asked for that went above and beyond your basic needs.

A lot of people want breeding soundness exams, which includes doing a sperm analysis (to see that the sperm behaves like it should) and seeing if there are any issues with the process (with a vet there in order to fix a problem should it occur).

No, “real men” don’t do anything inside the house (that’s women’s work), spend all their free time at work, and bring home the bacon. Don’t you read?

The problem is that women who are ambitious and confident are interpreted as abrasive and arrogant. Those are negative words. The fact that you guys even talked about replacing that abrasive woman (instead of saying she is confident or talkative or confident) means that you dislike the trait. The fact that she has to…

The valuation of emotional labor does not come from children who “don’t ask for it,” but from the community. Besides, I can almost certainly say that you asked for plenty from your parents.

Perhaps then you owe them for every moment of happiness, every little thing you have enjoyed, all the things you asked for that they got for you, all the times that you were upset and they fixed it (which would then include all the times you shit yourself and they changed your diaper)? Absolutely anything they did for…

Dude, people have been saying that for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. It’s almost as if when people get older, they realize there is more outside themselves.

I think this show was planned way before the controversy, something like over a year before. I doubt it is kudos for silencing black experiences - the artist is well-known outside of her painting of Till. Not saying her painting was any good, other than starting a dialogue about where the line between appropriation…

Out of my own academic curiosity, would you be okay with a white woman posing in a way that most would consider appropriation as long as the artist who set it up was African American? Is it the subject or the artist who receives criticism? Most of the time, I have observed that the subject and the artist’s origins are…

Isn’t it still appropriation if an American uses African imagery?

I’m not sure why you commented about not understanding if you are so resistant to understanding an opinion not your own.

I was raised Unitarian and the church I went to was rarely directly political. In Sunday School we would learn about the other religions, go to other churches on field trips, and talk about why the Unitarians believe in respect for everyone, all without talking about a god of any kind. About half the people in the…