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The number and variety of knots “rationalists” will tie themselves into when trying to explain away the existence of discrimination and organized structures for

• dnissley 6y ago
  Can you point to any examples?
  • 0xEFF 6y ago
    This discussion thread is a good start.
    • Gunax 6y ago
      How can we discuss sexism if even discussing it constitutes sexism? (If I mis-understood what you're referring to please correct me).
      • monocasa 6y ago
        I think they're saying to look at quite a few of the arguments being made, rather than the simple fact that a discussion is taking place.
• mikevm 6y ago
  How about showing that there actually is discrimination, and structures for enforcing such discrimination? It's usually claims about demographics (#women < #men => discrimination!) or constantly moving the goalposts and redefining STEM as "fields where there are less women" so that they always get the expected demographic outcome. See: https://youtu.be/tbnVAE3BwiM?list=LL&t=936 https://youtu.be/tbnVAE3BwiM?list=LL&t=936 Why is there never outrage the other way around with fields dominated by women, e.g., psychology?
  • hctaw 6y ago
    The simple response to your whataboutism is that we're not talking about other fields like psychology or education or nursing. If you want to discuss sexist attitudes towards men in those fields be my guest, but it's a different conversation. The less simple response is that cis white men haven't been systematically kept from participating in the full economy, unlike women and people of color until about a generation ago. Systemic sexism and racism were built up over centuries and have not been evacuated from society yet. When engaging in discussion about it it's impossible to look at the entire scope and walk away with concrete actions to reduce its impact, which is why productive discussion needs to hone in on specific issues or else we get in meaningless argument over semantics like "#women < #men == sexist" when it should be obvious that something is wrong there
  • bit-rot 6y ago
    Because, generally speaking and on balance, a least in American society, women have things worse off than men. The pay gap, gender roles, access to reproductive healthcare, representation in government, no paid parental leave, violence against women.
    • AI_WAIFU 6y ago
      Is that really true though? Men are overrepresented by multiples among the Homelessness, prison sentences, assult victims, suicides, gun deaths. Often by factors of 2-3x They're also deeply underrepresented in college, and the gap between men and women going to college is growing. Among young people, especially in cities, women actually out earn men. Figuring out who's "better off" seems to be entirely dependent on what ruler you're using to measure "better", and which subgroup you're using to do the measurement.
    • manfredo 6y ago
      None of those things are evidence of discrimination in tech hiring. When we send 100 applications to Google for engineering positions, do we see male resumes selected where otherwise-identical female resumes are not?
• TheTrotters 6y ago
  On the other hand we can't just notice an inequality of outcomes and assert that it's caused by discrimination.