Yet another study that has nothing to do with the claims you made...

I'm starting to see a pattern.

How is that relevant? Where's the bit that sows those differences make women less interested in science?

Ah, that's right, it's not there.

We call that "pseudoscience" where I come from. In this specific instance, because you're wrapping a belief in the trappings of science to lend the claim credibility without the benefit of actual scientific inquiry. You might as well claim that your healing crystals work because they've been exposed to tachyon energy.

To my knowledge, that has not been addressed. I am also unaware of any study that establishes a propensity in gay men to become hairdressers and fashion designers.

Your bias is showing...

For clarity: You actually believe one gender to be inherently superior to another?

How did you come to hold such a belief?

Feel free to provide some scientific evidence that contradicts the well-established fact that this is a social and not a biological issue.

Oh, wait, you can't. Sorry about that.

Sociological studies. I'm going to guess you don't have any formal background in science.

I know, hence the scare quotes. My intent was to highlight that the person to which I replied believes one gender to be inherently superior to another.

That's not terribly interesting. The question you should be asking now is "why".

Fortunately, we have zillions of studies that indicate it's a social, not a biological, consequence. Whether we should work to redress that imbalance is an ethical question. You're free to fall on either side, though I'm not sure you'd be as comfortable with "erecting artificial barriers to repress a particular people group is okay" as you clearly are with "girls just don't like science because biology".

I'm pretty sure you contributed nothing, yet enjoy privilege regardless. Do you actually think you "earned" anything by virtue of being born the "correct" gender?

Yes. Slashdot is ... unenlightened ...

You'll find countless cowards (anonymous and otherwise) terrified that they'll be unable to compete with "inferior" groups as their undeserved privilege erodes.

No.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

I find it it frustrating. It's unnecessarily difficult to tell where various blocks begin and end, particularly when two or more nested blocks end together.

On top of that, the myth that python is inherently easy to read has lead to some ridiculously illegible python code. I cringe every time I need to deal with anything written in python.

Indeed. I just wish it had a half-way decent editor.

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