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by Blackthorn 4357 days ago
That's because men are not systematically discriminated against in the way women are. These "won't someone please think of the men?!" arguments are tired and not good.
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Unless you consider, homelessness, suicides, social stigma regarding being sexually assulted, mancession, acceptance of physical abuse in public.

I mean no one is advocating we get the sucide rate to 50%. If you want parity, you can't cherry pick and that means recalibrating society as a whole.

Which means questioning bad ideas like an equal. There are way to many people intresting in thought stopping for the sake of PR.

While I agree with your larger point, invoking a systematic trend to support a specific issue in a specific context is a logical fallacy [1].

The parent's comment, while crudely phrased, did actually highlight some legitimate counterexamples to the "only women are discriminated against" narrative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_division

Nice strawman.

>Pay gap

>Women are just as capable

choose one, otherwise companies would pay the lowest price for labor. The "problem" (not even sure why a difference in what fields people like to go into is a problem) is reflected in open source statistics; women just don't like to code as much as men do.

Try teaching to kids or nursing.