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by facepalm 13y ago
My account will probably soon be killed on HN - like many before them. They all die around the 30 karma mark, presumably because of the many downvotes by feminists. I tend to be outspoken on feminist topics, which have become rather frequen
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by facepalm 13y ago
I tried to read more of your links, but I didn't get all of them. " http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/jobs/06pre.html" This unfortunately doesn't give any details, it's basically
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by facepalm 13y ago
I looked at the first two. The first was just a small article about employers trying to discern if a woman wants to have children or not. Why did you even link to that? I commented on the second one - it certainly seems interesting, but the
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by facepalm 13y ago
Look at how feminists act, not at the definition in a random dictionary. That's in general good advice. For example, if somebody says they are your friend, look at how they act, not at what they say. "An alternative is paid leave
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by facepalm 13y ago
" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism" Well look at how feminists act and what their claims and complains are, not what the definition of the word is on wikipedia. "Of course feminists think staying at
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by facepalm 13y ago
Discussion is not dumping a list of articles on another person. If you point out ones that specifically refute my points, I am happy to read them. I don't have time to read 20 articles now. I started with some but the quality of the li
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by facepalm 13y ago
Ok I grudgingly started to read some of your links to procrastinate. The first one is rather useless. The second again shows the bias I am talking about. It starts with the example of more men than women being given teaching assignments. It
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by facepalm 13y ago
Uh, men can cooperate very well. Let's not pile stereotypes upon stereotypes. I've heard that men actually get more competitive in the presence of women, which would contradict your story. But maybe you are right. Nothing against
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by facepalm 13y ago
"that many take this into consideration" Whenever they do that, the wage gap tends to shrink to a very low number (I think 2 to 4%) - of course most feminist outlets prefer to quote the 23% or other higher numbers instead. I am no
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by facepalm 13y ago
"This is mostly due to subconscious cultural influences and socialization of women rather than outright discrimination." And again your bias shows. What if there are natural reasons? Your assumption seems to be that women and men
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by facepalm 13y ago
I don't like using wordpress because of PHP and security issues. It never occurred to me that I should stop using it because it is too complicated to use. I've tried to find alternatives but I've failed. Now I am looking into
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by facepalm 13y ago
"That amounts to asking employers why they are breaking the law, which makes it a little tricky" Maybe you haven't noticed, but you are already assuming that employers are guilty. That kind of thing is exactly what makes me s
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by facepalm 13y ago
I think that kind of research is interesting, but feminists are prone to jumping to conclusions. All sorts of things could happen in the classroom. For example, maybe boys raise their finger more often to ask questions (no idea, just an exa
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by facepalm 13y ago
While I don't agree with your assessment of privileges, let's look at it in another way: should boys be artificially constrained so that they don't outperform girls (and I am not implying boys would outperform girls, just tha
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by facepalm 13y ago
I see - didn't know that kind of thing exists. Seems to me they very simply not good enough at crunching the numbers then. Also, I think even insurances tend to have insurances against very high insurance claims. Maybe they should look
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by facepalm 13y ago
Maybe Barbie doesn't teach them to worry about looks, but lets them relax about it? Barbie is pretty, after all. Like boys playing with batman figurines, they have a powerful actor that can do anything they want. I don't want to d
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by facepalm 13y ago
Girls don't get barbies thrown at them, they beg for them. The are expensive, too.
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by facepalm 13y ago
I don't understand - doesn't insurance pay for such costs? Why is it an extra burden for a company if one of their employees needs money from the health insurance?
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by facepalm 13y ago
nobody get's spoon fed computer knowledge.
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by facepalm 13y ago
It's just the same the world has always been: boys/men are on their own, no handholding provided.
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by facepalm 13y ago
The real purpose of that article is to establish that "number of household chores shared" is a meaningful measure of equality in a marriage. The sex bit is just the transmission vector for the feminist meme.
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by facepalm 13y ago
Nice - although I wish they would fix the bugs in those libraries, too.
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by facepalm 13y ago
I bought my kid a Hexbug Nano around that age. It's a small robot. It's small enough to swallow, so it depends on the kid.
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by facepalm 13y ago
It says in paragraph 3: "Under this deal the search giant will keep the majority of Motorola's mobile patents, considered its prize assets." This is the silliest HN thread I have ever seen. All the time it was considered proo