The root of the problem isn't what you seem to think it is. The root of the problem is that guys like you continue to push bullshit like

Women, it was once believed, didn't have the constitution to be doctors. Women, it was once held true, didn't possess the analytical minds required for a career in the law.

Women could do without your sexist arse telling them what they are and aren't, and what they can and can't do.

Voltaire was saying this before the US even existed.

Christ you're a wanker.

Lots of posts here positing rational reasons why electric cars aren't more popular: mpg (equivalent), price, distance from fueling stations, etc etc.

All of which (mistakenly, imho) assumes rational consumer behaviour.

It's inertia, money and marketing that are holding electric vehicles back. They're unfamiliar, and the incumbents are so, so, monied, and so, so powerful, that gaining any kind of traction at all is crazy difficult.

Religion is a choice

This is one of those "true in theory but not in practice" things. If you were born into (for example) an Ultra Orthodox Jewish community, brought up in it, never got to see anything outside of it (etc), then your religious beliefs aren't really choices you made. If you're never even been aware of the alternatives, how's it a choice?

Then to be fair, you don't really have much useful to contribute to this discussion. It's as if it were a discussion about the best/worst thing on TV and your only contribution was that you don't watch it and couldn't care less. Good for you.

The stereotype of the penny pinching Jew reflects the fact that they're naturally tight with money! The stereotype of the lazy Mexican reflects the fact that they're just naturally lazy! All the research shows this!

I assumed he meant it's unique in that it has everything (hence the emphasis) rather than unique because it evolved from a collection of villages.

All you had to do was RTFA and you wouldn't have had to ask.

This is a great comment, and the fact that you've been moderated Overrated really highlights just how fucked up Slashdot is with this stuff. The prevailing view, as evidenced by all the +5 Insightful comments trumpeting it, is that sex discrimination against women in STEM, just doesn't exist and it's all some "SJW" (sic) conspiracy.

Oh, the irony.

The fact that this comment right here is modded so highly really brings home how far ./ has drifted into nut-job territory.

FWIW neither are logical fallacies. They're rhetorical devices. And to be fair, you probably shouldn't criticise someone for deploying them if in your criticism you do it yourself...

It's funny because it's true!

It's just ad hominem though. It's lazy...