Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc Is Female

Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ... by cm2187 on Monday August 06, 2018 @04:04PM (#17701234)

I can't help reading this article, thinking that if you were to swap "male" for "female" and vice versa, this would be an absolute scandal that would trigger a twitter mob and get the author fired for being sexist.

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Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ... by drxzcl on Monday August 06, 2018 @04:19PM (#17701393)

If you change the words, you change the meaning.

Let's try and get to the bottom of why the swapped version is meaningfully different. What makes "men" and "women" fundamentally different in this context, so much so that they can't be exchanged without significantly altering the effect of the headline?

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Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ... by cm2187 on Monday August 06, 2018 @04:21PM (#17701416)

The author is basically implying that men are worse at that profession than females because of their natural behavior. Isn't it exactly the sort of arguments that got that google guy fired?

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Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ... by drxzcl on Monday August 06, 2018 @04:25PM (#17701456)

What what?

That's what you took away from the article?

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Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ... by cm2187 on Monday August 06, 2018 @04:28PM (#17701483)

Quoting the article:

> Female doctors may also simply be performing at least some parts of the job better than their male counterparts do

Imagine writing the vice versa about any other profession.

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Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ... by drxzcl on Monday August 06, 2018 @04:34PM (#17701542)

That's the point I'm trying to make. You instinctively feel that the exchanged version isn't the same. That the exchanged version isn't kosher. Now try and figure out why. You are already halfway there.

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Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ... by cm2187 on Monday August 06, 2018 @04:40PM (#17701607)

I am implying that suggesting these days that men are intrinsically better at one profession than women would get someone fired.

> Now try and figure out why. You are already halfway there.

You can keep your condescension for yourself.

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