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Re:Ellen Pao: My lawsuit failed. Others won’t by samstave on Monday August 21, 2017 @11:43AM (#15065362)
Just because you can substitute words doesn't invalidate the point.

Replace with religion and blacks and whites with Jews and muslims, sure the paragraph can still be written as such, but still doesn't change the original meaning.

Re:Ellen Pao: My lawsuit failed. Others won’t by sangnoir on Monday August 21, 2017 @01:07PM (#15065955)
Perhaps you'd like to expand on what "the original meaning" was to you?

If it wasn't obvious, one of my points was that being good at swimming is just that - it has nothing to do with software engineering. The whole "inherently different" argument is a red-herring if it has no provable bearing on the ability to do the (software engineering) work.

edit: my main point though, was that differences in statistical sport affinities are not, and do not explain "racism" - just as difference in statistical career-affinity is not, and doesn't explain "sexism".

Re:Ellen Pao: My lawsuit failed. Others won’t by joshuahutt on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:05PM (#15067401)
The person you replied to already pointed out that the difference has no bearing on their ability to do the work in question, and that, as such, men and women should be treated equally in that area.

>Where those biological differences aren't effective (e.g. typing on a keyboard), then yes, men and women should be treated the same.

You argued against a strawman.