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by kaitai 5y ago
This doesn't address the "dysphoria = trans" claim at all. As I wrote in the other comment, one can be uneasy or unhappy with one's body/gender without wanting to switch to "the other" gender. As a mathema
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by kaitai 5y ago
But trans means switching from one side of the binary to the other, while dysphoria means "unease or dissatisfaction" which is not at all the same. One can easily be uneasy or dissatisfied with one's perceived gender identity
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by kaitai 5y ago
I thought that was the idea being sold by Republicans in the US, though, that a woman who is trans is going to be lurking in the bathroom to rape your daughter after beating her in tennis?
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by kaitai 5y ago
The protection of female virtue is also an enormously successful political tactic, from the "yellow peril" in the late 1890s in Europe and the US to the "white slavery" panic (specifically referring to the cultural pheno
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by kaitai 5y ago
Where is this ideology that "gender dysphoria = trans" pushed? This is really bizarre -- could you give me some references?
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by kaitai 5y ago
That's really optimistic. Turns out it doesn't work and usually ends the woman's career at that company -- or maybe she gets some justice and then is destroyed by the folks on the internet who thinks she's just a feminaz
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by kaitai 5y ago
That's a really wishful-thinking reading of history. Back when women were coming into the workplace, no, a non-political workplace was not the thing called for -- a male workplace was what was called for. If you need a movie, watch Nor
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by kaitai 5y ago
It's worth noting that all people are "protected". One should be careful there, because "protected characteristics" include race, color, gender, pregnancy, disability, and age if over 40. All people have race, color
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by kaitai 5y ago
Why not just look at the current ratios of managers and test your hypothesis that lunch with this VP helps? My personal experience is that lunch is cheaper for the company to give than raises; it enables them to look like they're doing
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by kaitai 5y ago
"Males’ brains are larger than females’ from birth, stabilizing around 11 % in adults. This size difference accounts for other reproducible findings: higher white/gray matter ratio, intra- versus interhemispheric connectivity, and
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by kaitai 5y ago
The paper is about neuroimaging studies -- reading the start of the paper itself is much more useful than reading the linked article.
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by kaitai 5y ago
They're talking about brain structure ("Males’ brains are larger than females’ from birth, stabilizing around 11 % in adults. This size difference accounts for other reproducible findings: higher white/gray matter ratio, intr
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by kaitai 5y ago
This is correct and needs to be upvoted more. The number of residency slots is artificially capped and already fails to serve the number of medical school graduates in the country. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 is the basic vehicle for th
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by kaitai 5y ago
America is much more informed by evangelical Protestantism, rather than Quakerism and other non-conformists, and deeply influenced by "sola scriptura" (which directly conflicts with Anglican and Methodist theologies). In the US ev
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by kaitai 5y ago
As a woman I would far rather work for a guy who thinks women should stay at home but keeps his opinions to himself and his family and treats me fairly than I would work for a guy who can quote Steinem and Lorde and hooks but throws me unde
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by kaitai 5y ago
Why not just... manage people well? No need to make it no politics/no religion at work. Endless talking about keto or veganism or BeachBody or CrossFit or vaccines or children or being anti-child or emacs or vim or whatever can be just
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by kaitai 6y ago
Yeah, I think some folks have mentioned it, but The Storygraph [1] has really gotten some traction as a replacement. Question for HN readers, then -- if you look at Storygraph vs Goodreads, what's the missing secret sauce? Just critica
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by kaitai 6y ago
In my neck of the woods, kids are in school and going to wrestling tournaments and before that hockey tournaments that got to be superspreader events. We're certainly not denying kids sports where I am, or the opportunity to infect the
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by kaitai 6y ago
As someone with a family member working in a hospital who still couldn't get reliable PPE after 3 months, I feel that you live in an entirely different universe than I do. Would that we would have lived in a country where PPE for nurse
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by kaitai 6y ago
It's not at all hard to believe. All the people in my family, for instance, have changed grocery habits and stopped discretionary shopping in stores essentially entirely. Why? Many are older and have risks yet also have full lives and
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by kaitai 6y ago
This is total whining. I'm proud of my white father who came to the US with not so much education, worked four jobs, and put all his kids through college. Don't fall for this victimhood mentality of "I'm white so I have
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by kaitai 6y ago
I think your stats are quite suspect (in fact, made up, as you pretty much mention) and no, it's not at all irrelevant. I know my family history back to the 1600s; these folks were poor as dirt and indebted at times but they were not e
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by kaitai 6y ago
I just want to quote because in my opinion your last sentence is right on & bears repeating: "The FTA points out how Microsoft is changing the name of master with their right hand, but supplying facial recognition software to polic
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by kaitai 6y ago
I think the Redskins example is not great, as I also know plenty of folks who support the renaming; there is plenty of division among Native folks around this name. Land O'Lakes, though, is a much more interesting example -- Patrick De
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by kaitai 6y ago
And is there a relatively distinct group of their descendants being pulled over by the police today in Morocco, after continuously being excluded from economic progress for a few hundred years? Actually really curious -- one of the "in
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by kaitai 6y ago
Changing sports team names does reduce the number of people prancing around in fake headdresses and doing the "Tomahawk chop"... I would love to spend more time on economic and tax code reform so as to make the United States more
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by kaitai 6y ago
If you think women aren't competing and being judged, simply with another set of criteria, you've... not talked to a lot of women. Which of the two sexes is more likely to have their worth as partner be judged based on their [look
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by kaitai 6y ago
It's not a mystery to me. If I want to excel at my job, I have to be willing to tell my boss he's full of shit and then elbow someone else out of line to get my idea implemented. This is not what I practiced in school for all that
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by kaitai 6y ago
Honestly, as an educator and a parent, I find the "sit still and conform" nature of school quite frustrating even though I did fine with it. I'm female, and I do think that part of my doing fine with it is that I quietly went
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by kaitai 6y ago
Fine and large motor skills develop unevenly across genders/brain structures. There may be a link here, a feedback loop.

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