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Re:Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost by flyinRyan on Friday March 22, 2013 @10:45AM (#5423195)
>And I argue against misinterpreting a statistic here

Pretty much everyone who studies the issue concludes that there is a gap. It is likely that if anyone is misinterpreting a statistic it would be a laymen like you or I, not experts in the respective fields.

>I wonder why you are so emotionally invested in the belief that women are being oppressed?

I'm not emotionally invested in anything but the truth.

>And what is absurd about men wanting rights?

Obviously nothing. But /r/mensrights is a well known group of women-haters [1] who love to spout off one-off anecdotes to show how men are "actually the exploited group" and other such nonsense. There are cases where men get a raw deal (divorce court in the US comes to mind) but they are by far the minority.

[1] 2 seconds of searching: http://manboobz.com/2013/01/28/the-mens-rights-subreddit-a-n...

Re:Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost by Tichy on Friday March 22, 2013 @11:25AM (#5423500)
Of course there is a gap (if you count the right way anyway), the question is, what does it mean? I argue that jumping to the conclusion that women are being discriminated against is wrong and aslso counterproductive.

As for /r/mensrights I really can't comment. I do think men have a problem, though.

Divorce court: aren't divorces rather common?