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Re:When Are You Really an Adult? by nitrogen on Friday January 08, 2016 @07:39PM (#10869426)
For what it's worth I didn't downvote any of your other comments but I did this one, despite this being the most substantive one in this thread. It feels like you're trying to pick a fight rather than have a useful discussion in the other comments, and in this one pull out a bizarre tangent into the definition of a "man".

Maybe internally you and I and the other commenters all feel the same about equality but with different vocabulary, but the language and framing used here seems likely to have a divisive effect. Rather than letting all of these downvotes cause discouragement participating, hopefully they can help to converge on a useful, non-divisive approach to actually sharing information instead of sticking to what may come across as inflammatory.

Re:When Are You Really an Adult? by beccasanchez on Friday January 08, 2016 @11:44PM (#10870119)
I have a philosophy degree. I don't feel discouraged, I feel embarrassed that my software colleagues are so thin-skinned and pedestrian.

What you're calling "bizarre" is some entry level philosophy of gender, bro.

Re:When Are You Really an Adult? by nitrogen on Saturday January 09, 2016 @01:33AM (#10870346)
And some would say philosophy of gender has gone pretty far off the rails compared to the discourse used by the rest of society.