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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM by throwaway1748 on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:18AM (#16411727)
Yep, the "women are wonderful" trope is extremely widespread in the media. I've seen dozens of articles with a headline like "women are better than men at investing" or "women make for better leaders". You never read anything saying "men are better than women at X", not that they'd be any more socially beneficial than the toxic male-bashing that occurs today.
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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM by heedlessly2 on Monday February 19, 2018 @03:32PM (#16415498)
>"men are better than women at X"

You don't have to read about it. Most people already think men are better at everything. Most CEOs, established scientists, famous chefs, and philosophers are almost all men.

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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM by throwaway1748 on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @01:39AM (#16418280)
That's not the conclusion I would draw from reading sites like Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, or even mainstream news like NYT or The Washington Post.
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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM by heedlessly2 on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @09:39AM (#16420589)
Buzzfeed and HuffPo have an agenda to be very liberal and uses sensational articles to get attention because it goes against what most people historically think
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