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It reinforces the stereotype that only women are mean. I would dislike a title reinforcing stereotypes about me: "Detox for Alcoholic East Europeans: Haskell ty
by anticristi 6y ago
It reinforces the stereotype that only women are mean. I would dislike a title reinforcing stereotypes about me: "Detox for Alcoholic East Europeans: Haskell type enforcement".
- cdash 6y agoNo such stereotype says only women are mean.
- anticristi 6y agoC'mon. It's a well-known "fact" (please read that with sarcasm) that women gossip more and are more mean: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09589236.2017.1411789 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09589236.2017.14...
- bitcharmer 6y agoThis is absolutely not true where I come from. I don't think you should consider your personal beliefs and biases to be universal to the whole planet.
- FabHK 6y agoWhy the downvotes? OP put "fact" in scare quotes and provided a link to a scientific paper entirely refuting both mentioned "facts". It thus seems obvious that OP doesn't subscribe to those stereotypes, but furthermore subversively makes fun of those that do. Downvoting without checking the link... Is this Twitter here or HN?
- hadron_bumper 6y agoNot sure about this particular instance, but this user's comments in this thread show quite aggressive, preconceived and completely unnecessary stance. To people like that everything is sexist/racist/-phobic. Since HN is generally above that, comments trying to derail the actual discussion and lower the level of discourse are not welcome.
- docdeek 6y agoI've never heard a stereotype that suggests only women are mean. Perhaps it's a cultural trope?
- boomboomsubban 6y agoThey are referencing the old idea that men handle disagreement with violence while women handle it by being mean to each other. Saying "only women at mean" is hyperbolic, but they likely are stereotypes.
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- toolz 6y agoFor what it's worth, I've never considered meanness to be limited to non-physical attacks. I'd venture to say a bully punching a kid is just as likely to get labeled mean as a bully that makes fun of a kid.
- ajuc 6y agoIt's funny how often the people "fighting" a stereotype are the people that bring them up in the first place and thus spread them.
- paulchap 6y agoI don't know the movie, so I agree with the title being a bit strange, and I probably could have done with a slightly more factually oriented article, but I appreciate the effort to keep it light. And the stereotypical girls' cliques the article seems to riff on do exist... Girls are known to be more relationally aggressive than boys, who tend to be more physically aggressive than girls. Girls also behave in a more pro-social fashion, so girls' cliques are often larger than boys' cliques, creating more complicated power dynamics. That said, I don't really get what you mean. That's like saying a book called "Good Habits for Incompetent Managers" reinforces the stereotype that only managers are incompetent.
- nisuni 6y agoNever heard of a stereotype according to which only women are mean.