Re:A Guide To Hacker News For People Who Aren’t Men (2018)
by apocolyps6 on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:07PM
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I'm not convinced that being true redeems any and every statement. For example you can lay out a case for eugenics unacceptable in almost any moderated forum while only making true statements.
As for the linguistic element in your question, "X is Y" in conversation typically means "X at large", allowing for some anomalies but otherwise making a statement about the whole group.
Re:A Guide To Hacker News For People Who Aren’t Men (2018)
by namshub on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @08:56AM
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Selective ignorance is a dangerous strategy... Far better to evaluate the facts as fully as possible and find the actual reasons for and against. However a straightforward argument for eugenics is probably not very accurate or broad in its consideration. In that sense I guess it could be inaccurate or true but incomplete and/or misleading on its own.
Re:A Guide To Hacker News For People Who Aren’t Men (2018)
by tasuki on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @03:11AM
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> I'm not convinced that being true redeems any and every statement.
What does that mean?
Re:A Guide To Hacker News For People Who Aren’t Men (2018)
by jolux on Monday June 29, 2020 @02:21PM
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I'm curious about what obviously true biological characteristics of women reinforce negative stereotypes about them, if you have any. Otherwise I don't really see the point in the hypothetical.
Re:A Guide To Hacker News For People Who Aren’t Men (2018)
by tasuki on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:27PM
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I can't come up with any right now.
Fortunately, I can come up with one about men: Men are more physically aggressive than women. I believe this is true, a negative stereotype, and has biological basis.
Does the statement "women are biologically programmed to XYZ" mean "some women are biologically programmed to XYZ" or "all women are biologically programmed to XYZ"?