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That's because men are not systematically discriminated against in the way women are. These "won't someone please think of the men?!" arguments are tired and no

• buckfitchesget 12y ago
  Nice strawman. >Pay gap >Women are just as capable choose one, otherwise companies would pay the lowest price for labor. The "problem" (not even sure why a difference in what fields people like to go into is a problem) is reflected in open source statistics; women just don't like to code as much as men do.
• john_b 12y ago
  While I agree with your larger point, invoking a systematic trend to support a specific issue in a specific context is a logical fallacy [1]. The parent's comment, while crudely phrased, did actually highlight some legitimate counterexamples to the "only women are discriminated against" narrative. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_division http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_division
• McDoku 12y ago
  Unless you consider, homelessness, suicides, social stigma regarding being sexually assulted, mancession, acceptance of physical abuse in public. I mean no one is advocating we get the sucide rate to 50%. If you want parity, you can't cherry pick and that means recalibrating society as a whole. Which means questioning bad ideas like an equal. There are way to many people intresting in thought stopping for the sake of PR.
• nova 12y ago
  Try teaching to kids or nursing.