dailymail.co.uk— For centuries men believed themselves to be smarter than the fairer sex, who they felt were only equipped for wifely duties.
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I know plenty of hot math, cs, and engineering majors who would disagree with you. You can say women arent as interested in those areas, (look at any universities demographic/degree breakdown) but to say they dont excel will just piss them off and perpetuate this stereotype.
I was referring to Babbage's Analytical Engine. That is, the particular computer that Lady Lovelace wrote her program for.But in retrospect, I can see that my comment was ambiguous.
well, first of all, I never said that a gender-free society was a utopia; perhaps it could be, but I am by no means advocating "erasing gender" whatever that may mean.But it's true (utopia or dystopia) that it's impossible to exert that much control over even a single aspect of a society, and even to try and do would be tyrannical and immoral, and at the very least, artificial. For an "experiment" such as this to work, the gender-free phenomenon would have to arise of it's own accord out of the collective free-will of the society itself; it would have to (or have had to) "simply happen(ed)".
The article certainly doesn't mesh with my experience. I know males and females of every conceivable intelligence level, and my experience suggests to me that if one were to graph IQ's for both sexes, they would be parabolas, peaking at an IQ of 100 (<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution).">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution).</a>A valid claim might be that male competitiveness pushes some men to the top of their fields, or that some environmental factor affected the results. I just find it extremely improbable that men are (almost always) either stupid, or brilliant, and that women are (almost always) right in the middle.
qwertydvorakSep 25, 2007
even animals don't s**t where they eat
lordofshadowsSep 25, 2007
I'm convinced that women want men to be in the dominant role.
lordofshadowsSep 25, 2007
I know plenty of hot math, cs, and engineering majors who would disagree with you. You can say women arent as interested in those areas, (look at any universities demographic/degree breakdown) but to say they dont excel will just piss them off and perpetuate this stereotype.
danagSep 25, 2007
I was referring to Babbage's Analytical Engine. That is, the particular computer that Lady Lovelace wrote her program for.But in retrospect, I can see that my comment was ambiguous.
Closed AccountSep 26, 2007
well, first of all, I never said that a gender-free society was a utopia; perhaps it could be, but I am by no means advocating "erasing gender" whatever that may mean.But it's true (utopia or dystopia) that it's impossible to exert that much control over even a single aspect of a society, and even to try and do would be tyrannical and immoral, and at the very least, artificial. For an "experiment" such as this to work, the gender-free phenomenon would have to arise of it's own accord out of the collective free-will of the society itself; it would have to (or have had to) "simply happen(ed)".
penchantSep 26, 2007
It's by Desmond Harris, the series is called "The Human Sexes"
fauxtankSep 27, 2007
The article certainly doesn't mesh with my experience. I know males and females of every conceivable intelligence level, and my experience suggests to me that if one were to graph IQ's for both sexes, they would be parabolas, peaking at an IQ of 100 (<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution).">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution).</a>A valid claim might be that male competitiveness pushes some men to the top of their fields, or that some environmental factor affected the results. I just find it extremely improbable that men are (almost always) either stupid, or brilliant, and that women are (almost always) right in the middle.