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Half of Americans are women. Half are men. Give or take. 83% of Congress are men. 60% of college graduates are women. 91% of inmates are men. 84% of single
by Cushman 14y ago
Half of Americans are women. Half are men. Give or take.
83% of Congress are men.
60% of college graduates are women.
91% of inmates are men.
84% of single parents are women.
If you think all that's left of ten thousand years of systemic discrimination is unpleasantness and stupid jokes, I just don't know what planet you live on.
- bromang 14y agoWhat point are you trying to make? There are large differences on average between men and women? Why is this a problem?
- Cushman 14y agoSo, seriously, what are the "large differences" you infer from these statistics? That women tend to be harder-working, while men tend to be more dishonest? I mean, I'm not saying you're wrong.
- spindritf 14y agoDo you honestly believe that 91% of inmates are men because of sexism? That there are no differences in let's say propensity for violence between sexes?
- Cushman 14y agoI'm saying that on the day you're born somebody flips a coin and if it comes up tails you're about 15 times more likely to wind up in prison. I don't really care why that is. It's not the world I want my kids to grow up in. Let's not give up trying because we think there's an easy out.
- kami8845 14y agoThere's clearly some injustice at work here, we must fight to have more women put in prison! Stop the injustice!
- D3 14y agoFood for thought - http://shaneleavy.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/does-justice-system-discriminate.html http://shaneleavy.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/does-justice-system...
- revelation 14y agoUh, let me think.. yes? The biological argument cuts every way, and if you're going to use it, you only end up cutting yourself.
- greenrd 14y agoWhat? We can't accept that things that might be true might be true, because you might cut yourself with that argument?
- herval 14y agoI'm not sure these numbers show anything but that men are more violent (hormones and culture, maybe?) and women are more "attached" to their children (a side effect for carrying one on her belly for 9 months, perhaps?)
- Cushman 14y agoAnd I'm not sure how that's supposed to matter. We are all of us predisposed to live in caves eating roots and nuts and anything we could kill with a pointy rock, but somehow we got past that.
- herval 14y agoYou referred to these numbers. I totally agree with you now - they don't mean a thing (and we'll never know why you included them here in the first place)
- Cushman 14y agoI included them because they are facts, unlike the idea that men are inherently violent or women inherently nurturing. But sure, keep guessing.
- revelation 14y agoAnd thats why we don't have equality. Men are violent and bossy, women are nurturing and caring, let's parade tough on crime and the nuclear family.
- rmc 14y agoIt's funny how some "mass stereyotypes" (like "men violent, women nurturing") tend to take longer to die. Let's look at some other "mass stereyotypes" that are no longer so accepable to say in civil discource: • Women can't do maths (like at all, their brains are tiny and incabable of abstract thought) It's in the nature! • Men can't look after babies, they'd probably hold them by their heads or something! It's in their nature! • Jews are only concerned with money, it's in their nature! • Women lack the mental capabilites for politics and shouldn't be allowed to vote, it's in their nature. • Women are very emotional, and hence are unsuitable for high pressure jobs (high level political leader, CEO, doctor, military commander), they'd just have some sort of emotional break down when the going gets tough, it's in their nature. • etc. etc. (I haven't even touched on non-noble people, black people, LGBT people, catholics, prodestands, muslims, etc. etc.) All of these things have been said about natural differences between various groups, mostly due to what we now realise as massive biases. When one says "men are naturally violent" or "women are naturally caring", the burden is on you to show how this time it's different, rather than it being just another (false) statement born out of bias. All these claims had some sort of evidence behind them. The burden is on you to come up with a standard of evidence that supports your biased claim, but doesn't show that women are incable of high office (say).