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Because discussing anything gender/identity-related nowadays has become bereft of all logic and always comes with emotional baggage.
by Dirlewanger 9y ago
Because discussing anything gender/identity-related nowadays has become bereft of all logic and always comes with emotional baggage.
- throwmeaway987 9y agoOh does it? Does it become emotional?
- astura 9y agoJesus, no, not at all, I have no idea why you'd jump to such wild conclusion as it's actually very informative and an important piece of information. I have no idea what sort of "emotion baggage" would cause the authors to write that, that would be really odd. They are merely acknowledging the premise is based solely on gender roles and not any sort of data they have collected or any preliminary observations. The alternative would be something like "we drove around town for an hour and observed that 80% of people shoveling snow at that time were men so our hypothesis is the reason for the sex difference is men do most of the shoveling. This needs more rigorous data collection to verify." Or even "in our personal experience most of the household shoveling is done by men." It could have been worded better to be more clear.
- Dirlewanger 9y ago>It could have been worded better to be more clear. But it wasn't, and what we have from them is a needlessly adversarial conclusion. I don't know why you're trying to make excuses for them. This is the norm for news outlets nowadays.