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Since this has come up in the thread, I'll put this out there. While this would be an inappropriate comment regardless of whether it's true, it's also based on
by hyperpape 9y ago
Since this has come up in the thread, I'll put this out there. While this would be an inappropriate comment regardless of whether it's true, it's also based on a unsupported and probably false generalization: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4488 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4488.
- gertef 9y agosupport: "In the collaborative setting, 37 female and 42 male master’s students worked to complete a graded assignment in 12 hours. The researchers found that women tended to interact more with each other, especially in long conversations." https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/do-women-talk-more-than-men/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/do-women-talk-mor...
- hyperpape 9y agoThanks for the citation. I'm not sure whether to regard it as contradictory, given that it slices contexts more finely.
- safek 9y agoThe strange thing is that the same comment has been used in support of gender equality. In Iceland, where every board must have at least 40% representation for each gender, they interviewed some female CEOs, who said something like, "Men are selfish! That's how we got the financial crises. Women will look out for the good of the group. It's in our DNA."
- AstralStorm 9y agoAggressive feminists are overrepresented because it takes a special kind of woman to even want to compete in aggression and sometimes sociopathy with male CEOs...
- greglindahl 9y agoAre you assuming that only women can be feminists? Historically that is not true. Here's a nice introduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_and_feminism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_and_feminism