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by ryanwaggoner 6041 days ago
I'm more tempted to think of people as individuals who make their own life choices, rather than think of all women as 'pregnancy risks'. Especially in technology - a lot of geek women don't have or want kids.

Am I the only one who sees the hint of a contradiction there? Granted, it's not as broad as "all women", but you still seem to be stereotyping.

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People are individuals, but there are things which hold true, on average, between certain populations.

It's not a contradiction, it's called outliers... or even 1/10th a standard dev, depending on how close the means are.