[tptacek]

Oh come off it. If it mattered to the actual discussion, women serve along men in the IDF infantry. But it doesn't matter; it simply begs the question. Nobody is debating whether peak male lifting performance is better than peak female lifting performance. Women are also much better at giving birth than men! The issue is: why does that matter?

[subjectsigma]

I'm not sure if you're intentionally being dense or we're talking past each other about different things.

1. Progressive and liberal-minded individuals think that promoting the idea that there is no functional difference between men and women will help fight gender inequality but this is not only untrue, it is dangerous. See the linked articles in my comment; people absolutely are debating this, these people are driving real policy changes, and you misrepresent them saying they are not.

2. Part of this agenda is shaming people for treating men and women differently, like in the OP. In this case they're right to do this, it's not productive or fair to write science articles about women differently than ones about men. But in other ways there is definitely a culture being created where it is taboo to treat men and women differently in any capacity and maybe that's not entirely a good idea. That's why it 'matters'.

[tptacek]

You're pretending to address what I wrote without actually engaging with anything I wrote. But that's OK, right: lives are at risk!

[subjectsigma]

So you are being intentionally dense. I'm sorry I tried.

[dang]

Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't post like this again.

Also, please avoid name-calling like "intentionally dense", even when you're not attacking someone specific. It lowers discussion quality and points the vector downward for others.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html