As women have more equal opportunity, the more their preferences differ from men

Re:As women have more equal opportunity, the more their pref... by vorpalhex on Monday November 05, 2018 @09:50AM (#18382655)

> inevitably other people will jump up and say (in essence) "Well, that isn't true for me and you are evil and bad and wrong for saying this is true for women generally and you don't represent me!!!!!" type nonsense.

Your detractors are engaging in the No True Scotsman fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman One of the issues is that identity is, for most, a very emotional construct and anything which threatens that will illicit an emotional threat response - anger, lashing out, attacking. The best response is to, as much as possible, simply ignore those responses and continue doing what you'd like to do - the same as researchers will hopefully continue to do. In old adage form - "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink."

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Re:As women have more equal opportunity, the more their pref... by DoreenMichele on Monday November 05, 2018 @11:22AM (#18383532)

My firsthand experience has been that simply ignoring such responses tends to lead to the individual in question behaving in an increasingly unhinged fashion and actively hounding me as if they will not be satisfied until I reply to them in specific.

But perhaps that isn't really an argument for not simply ignoring them. It's just the reason I have tended to not go that route historically.

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Re:As women have more equal opportunity, the more their pref... by vorpalhex on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:40PM (#18384725)

As one of my peers noticed one time: "I can't solve other peoples problems for them, but I can choose to leave them out of my life when they refuse to solve their own issues."

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