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Comment Re:Male-ness is a Secondary Characteristic (Score 1) 166

That's fine as long as the "Men and women tend to be different" for non-discriminatory differences.

Define ... non-discriminatory differences?

How does one tell a gender preference towards solitary work (Computer Programming) or towards social type work (nursing, teachers, social work) verses discrimination based on gender by statistics alone?

The problem is, that we are ascribing as discriminatory, things that just might be normal and natural, but statistically looks like gender bias. This is my complaint about under-representation claims, based on statistics alone. Yes, they are underrepresented, but maybe it is because of gender selection (preference) trends.

Comment Re:Unpossible (Score 2) 107

No, they won't. Most people don't have a clue what Fiat Currency actually means. They have no idea how the FED and world banking systems work. They barely know how anything works.

This is the problem within the IT and Engineering crowds, we simply assume people are like us, when they are clearly not anything like us. We learn about things, all the time. The other people, the "average" guy, doesn't care to learn about the same things.

Comment Re:Male-ness is a Secondary Characteristic (Score 2) 166

I just attended a nursing graduation at a local University. Probably 10-1 Female to Male Graduates. (rough estimate). Tell me again how men are represented adequately in Nursing? The link below says it is 85% (close to my guestimate)

http://www.randalolson.com/201...

1) Health Professions (85% women): nursing assistant, veterinary assistant, dental assistant, etc.

Females have better representation in Engineering and Computer Science (18-19%) than males do in Nursing.

And I can come up with a whole slew of possible reason why women shy away from certain kinds of jobs, and are more attracted to others. Here is a good example, women tend to be more social than men. They need the company of other people. So then are attracted to jobs that have more social interactions than jobs that don't have much social interactions. This has nothing to do with ability. When women find out that there is not much social interactions in programming ... well they are not all that excited about it.

Comment Re:Male-ness is a Secondary Characteristic (Score 0) 166

Well, if the liberal Politicians in DC were so hung up on Women's equality in pay, then they would pay their women staffers the same as the male staffers, but ... they don't.

And if women do really work for less, then any bright American Entrepreneur type would hire only women, because it would cost them less, giving them a substantial advantage in the marketplace.

However, those things are NOT true. A man typically works every day possible (gaining experience), and women take time off to have kids and whatnot. The fact is, men's priorities are always the same as women's priorities. Again, Gender Attractions and men and women tend to be different.

It isn't always HeMan's Women Haters Club conspiracy. And again, it doesn't speak to workplaces that are woman dominated, like cosmetology and nursing. Where nobody complains about over representation.

Comment Re:What is a republic? (Score 1) 122

Who you fuck is not a matter for the state to be prosecuting or otherwise interfering with. Because it's none of their damned business.

Except that it is, by the very fact that the state sanctions such contracts and as established it as a right. This isn't Schrodinger's cat, which is both a Right and Not a Right until you look at it.

Comment Re:What is a republic? (Score 2) 122

Making it Contract Law, means that marriage is no longer a "civil right" as such. If it is a civil right, then it is in the realm of criminal law, and thus eligible for criminal penalties for those that violate those rights. Having an affair is a violation of the civil rights of the partner, as it is a direct cause of harm to that right. I would even suggest that having an affair is a crime, even if ALL parties are consenting to it, for the same reason one cannot consent to being a slave or being a human sacrifice, as those things we have deemed harmful to our society in general.

The problem here is that certain people want things, until it is inconvenient, and then they don't want those very things they petitioned for. We cannot simply say something is legal (or illegal) while it is convenient and then turn around and toss it aside when it becomes inconvenient.

Comment Re:Male-ness is a Secondary Characteristic (Score 2) 166

Why does nobody ever worry about boys under-representation on things, like Nursing ?

I mean, I know the reason why there are disparities between genders in certain fields, and it isn't representative of some hidden misogynist agenda of the HeMan Woman's Haters Club. The fact is, that there are Gender Attractions to certain kinds of work, and why can't we just leave it at that.

Men and Women tend to be different.

Comment Re:Cognitive Dissonance (Score 3, Insightful) 166

It is actually worse. We're funding education for the next 20 years, based on what the past 20 years were like. Think about it for a second, we are reflexively thinking that our world in 20 years will resemble our world from 20 years ago (40 year gap). This is fairly short sighted and is always the case with education, we're teaching our kids like we should have been educated, but not according to how they need to be educated.

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