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Re:The cognitive differences between men and women by belorn on Sunday August 06, 2017 @02:00PM (#14942475)
Diversity based on grouping people together has several drawbacks, among others that "us and them" is strongly connected to hostility and dehumanization. Discrimination is only possible when people are sorted into distinct groups rather than embracing that all humans have some uniformable traits that define everyone as human.

A "us and them" thinking is directly linked to our emotional reaction to security. Many (majority?) feel more insecure when isolated and surrounded by people they associated as "them", with the opposite feeling when surrounded by "us". "us and them" is involved in practically every war ever fought, and many conflict is resolved by having the distinction of "us and them" being erased, rather then embrace how different "them" are and later embrace it.

I would like to think that society can truely embrace how similar people are and start to perceive everyone as belong to "us".

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Re:The cognitive differences between men and women by kareldonk on Sunday August 06, 2017 @02:28PM (#14942646)
The "us" vs "them" conflict between men and women goes back thousands of years and was introduced with specific purposes. My personal research on this can be found at https://blog.kareldonk.com/sexual-suppression-and-repression...

We'll start perceiving everyone as "us" as soon as most people realize what I discuss there.

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Re:The cognitive differences between men and women by mmirate on Sunday August 06, 2017 @03:17PM (#14942942)
> My personal research on this

Freud and ... aliens. Yeah, right, sure.

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Re:The cognitive differences between men and women by mnsc on Monday August 07, 2017 @04:43AM (#14946080)
Holy crap I'm glad I scrolled to the Summary.

But the author missed the golden opportunity to take a shortcut to the "us". Nothing will unit men and women like an alien hostile mining race!

PUT ASIDE ALL PETTY GENDER DIFFERENCES JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE MINER ALIENS THE WORLD NEEDS YOU!

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Re:The cognitive differences between men and women by kareldonk on Sunday August 06, 2017 @08:43PM (#14944551)
Sure. Investigate before dismissing.
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Re:The cognitive differences between men and women by VMG on Sunday August 06, 2017 @03:12PM (#14942915)
from the link

> Many thousands of years ago a technologically advanced race of extraterrestrial beings came to planet Earth to mine metals

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Re:The cognitive differences between men and women by kareldonk on Sunday August 06, 2017 @08:42PM (#14944547)
Yes as strange as it may sound you may want to check my references and investigate.
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Re:The cognitive differences between men and women by gehwartzen on Sunday August 06, 2017 @10:36PM (#14944922)
The references seem to try and poke holes into our current understanding of evolution (and I agree it's still very incomplete) and suggest that an alien arrival is the best reasonable explanation to fill the gaps. I'm not sure that's very convincing.

What's even less plausible is an alien visitor, having all the technology necessary to get to earth, somehow needing humans for the purely physical task of extracting metals. I mean we ourselves are now almost capable of automating mining yet haven't made it past our very own moon.

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Re:The cognitive differences between men and women by kareldonk on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:07PM (#14960694)
Why make metal robots when you can manipulate DNA and make biological ones?
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