I Can Be Just As Capable. Let Me.

Re:I Can Be Just As Capable. Let Me. by anthonyb on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @05:49PM (#4134343)

The thing is, you're perpetuating the myth too.

"Those poor PR people, how were they supposed to know that a chick plays video games?"

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Re:I Can Be Just As Capable. Let Me. by EGreg on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @06:58PM (#4134647)

They aren't poor, I am asking why she is surprised given that they were very likely to do that, and indeed most of them in her story did do that.

What is the alternative? I am not calling them poor, but you are calling them deluded. And I am deluded. Basically we all believe a myth.

What is more likely is that there is an underlying reason for the PR people and others to believe it. It is the reason that should be analyzed and addressed, not the people who are the product of it.

This is starting to sound a lot like http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/PublicChoice.html

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Re:I Can Be Just As Capable. Let Me. by anthonyb on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @07:53PM (#4134866)

> What is more likely is that there is an underlying reason for the PR people and others to believe it.

You're making the same mistake that the PR guy made (Obviously women don't play games, therefore it's an understandable mistake). Stop doing that, would be a really good start.

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Re:I Can Be Just As Capable. Let Me. by EGreg on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @08:32PM (#4135021)

first of all he was the one who made the judgment, I simply evaluated his judgment

secondly why do you keep saying that acting based on previously established patterns in one's life is a mistake?

how do you know I'm not a nobel prize winning sociologist, and that you are the one making the mistake

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